Roland Sturm

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Roland Sturm (born March 10, 1953 in Speyer ) is a German political scientist .

Life

He studied political science , English and history at the Free University of Berlin , Stanford University and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1981 he was at Dieter Nohlen in Heidelberg for Dr. phil. PhD . He then worked as a research assistant with Klaus von Beyme at the Institute for Political Science and completed his habilitation in 1987 at the Faculty of Philosophy and History.

In 1987/88 Sturm represented the professorship for administrative sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . From 1989 to 1991 he was a Heisenberg fellow . From 1991 to 1996 he was Professor of Political Science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he co-founded the European Center for Research on Federalism in 1993 and was Director of the Institute for Political Science in 1995/96. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In 1996 he became a full professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . From 1997 to 2011 he was executive director of the Institute for Political Science and from 2004 to 2011 of the Central Institute for Regional Research . In addition, he was co-head of the doctoral programs “EU Eastern Enlargement and its Consequences for the European Union, the Member States and the Accession States” and “Political and Party Development in Europe”. In 2013 he took over the doctoral program "Democracy in Europe" with the political scientist Eckhard Jesse . In addition to his work for the Senate and Dean's Office , he has been a liaison professor at the Hanns Seidel Foundation since 2009 and the German Research Foundation since 2009 . In 2007 he was visiting professor at the University of Beijing (China) and in 2014 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Brazil).

He was head of the Comparative Political Science section of the German Association for Political Science and chairman of the German Research Group on England. Storm is u. a. Member of the board of the German-British Society in Nuremberg as well as member of scientific associations such as the European Integration Working Group , the German Society for Political Science and the European Consortium for Political Research . In 2012/13 he moderated the future dialogue of the Free States of Bavaria and Saxony. In 2014 he advised Myanmar on constitutional reform.

Sturm is the editor of series and specialist journals ( Journal for Politics and Society-Economy-Politics ), Review Editor of the German Politics magazine and Scientific Advisory Board of u. a. the yearbook Extremism & Democracy .

In the 2018/19 winter semester, he is offering the advanced seminar "Electoral Systems and Party Systems" for political science students at the Institute for Political Science.

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