Thomas Saalfeld

Thomas Saalfeld

Thomas Saalfeld (* 1960 ) is a German parliamentary , representation and coalition researcher who, as a professor, holds the chair for comparative political science at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . He is also the spokesman for the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS), liaison professor of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and Managing Editor of the political science journal “German Politics”.

biography

After studying political science , modern history and communication science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) (1980–1983 and 1984–1987) and the University of Hull (1983–1984), he was a research assistant at the from 1987 to 1991 University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich . From 1992 to 1993 Thomas Saalfeld was a lecturer in political science at the University of Hull , before he received his doctorate (Dr. phil.) From the LMU in 1993. After completing his dissertation, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology (Macrosociology) at the Technical University of Dresden from 1993 to 1995 .

Between 1996 and 2009 he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and finally Professor in Political Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury . During this time, a one-semester substitute chair in political science at the University of Mannheim fell in 2008 . Since 2009 he has held the professorship for comparative political science at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Thomas Saalfeld is spokesman for the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS), which is funded as part of the Excellence Initiative, liaison lecturer of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at the University of Bamberg and managing editor of the political science journal German Politics .

Research projects

Saalfeld has dealt with parliamentary, party, coalition and international comparative political research. His chair researches the following topics:

• Economic Crises and Cabinet Stability in European Democracies 1919–2009
• Bargaining and Conflict Management in German Coalition Politics
• Parliamentary Questions as a Means of Political Communication
• Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Parliaments of Liberal Democracies

Publications

His publications include:

• The Political Representation of Immigrants and Minorities: Voters, parties and parliaments in liberal democracies (edited with Karen Bird and Andreas M. Wüst). Routledge, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-49272-0 .
• Parties and elections . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 3-8329-1064-6 .
• Great Britain: A Political Study of the Country . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2062-1 .
• Party soldiers and rebels: An investigation into the unity of the parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag (1949–1990) . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 3-8100-1376-5 .
• The British House of Commons 1965 to 1986: A Parliament in Transition (= Contributions to Political Science. Issue 36). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-8204-0145-8 .
• Members of Parliament in Western Europe: Roles and Behavior (edited with Wolfgang C. Müller ). Frank Cass, London 1997, ISBN 0-7146-4821-3 .

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} page of his chair
2. ↑ List of publications (PDF; 84 kB)