Roland Roth

Roland Roth (* 1949 ) is a German political scientist and civil rights activist .

Life

Roth studied social sciences from 1968 to 1973 at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Marburg . After ten years in political adult education, he received his doctorate in 1984 at the University of Frankfurt am Main , then research assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences there and later senior assistant at the Free University of Berlin . In 1992 Roth completed his habilitation in political science . From 1993 until his retirement in 2014 he was Professor of Political Science at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences . He was also a Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997/98 and visiting professor at the University of Vienna in 1999 .

Roth is one of the founders of the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy . Furthermore, he a member of the scientific advisory board of Attac , a board member of the Association for protest and movement research eV and co-founder of the eponymous  Institute of protest and movement research  (ipb) and member of the Scientific Council of the Basic Income Network , the German organization of the Basic Income Earth Network ( BIEN) for an unconditional basic income .

Fonts (selection)

• Editor: Parliamentary Ritual and Political Alternatives . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-593-32647-7 .
• Rebel subjectivity. Herbert Marcuse and the new protest movements . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-593-33547-6 (also dissertation, University of Frankfurt am Main 1984).
• with Joachim Hirsch : The new face of capitalism. From Fordism to Post-Fordism , VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-87975-374-1 .
• Democracy from below. New social movements on the way to becoming a political institution . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7663-2481-0 (also short version of the habilitation thesis: Movement as Institution . FU Berlin 1992).
• Editor with Dieter Rucht : The social movements in Germany since 1945. A manual . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38372-9 .
• Citizen power. A pamphlet for more participation . Edition Körber Foundation, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89684-081-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roland Roth, Center for Corporate Citizenship Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Members of the Attac Scientific Advisory Board ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (January 2016)
2. ^ Basic Income Network, Scientific Advisory Board. Retrieved August 12, 2016.