Tom Mannewitz

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Tom Mannewitz (born October 2, 1987 in Wurzen ) is a German political scientist and has held the junior professorship "Political Science Research Methods" at the Technical University of Chemnitz since 2014 .

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Mannewitz studied political science and communication science ( Bachelor ) at the TU Dresden from 2006 to 2009 . In 2012 he received his doctorate from Eckhard Jesse at the TU Chemnitz as a scholarship holder of the FAZIT Foundation on the subject of "Left-wing extremist parties in Europe after 1990. Causes of election successes and failures". He then worked as a research assistant at Jesse's chair for a year before accepting a postdoc grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation . In 2014 the habilitation for Dr. phil. habil. (Topic: "Political culture and a democratic constitutional state. A subnational comparison two decades after reunification") and the call to the junior professorship in "Political Science Research Methods" at the TU Chemnitz. In the 2016/17 winter semester he was visiting professor at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid.

Research priorities

Mannewitz's research focuses on democracy, extremism and populism research as well as political science research methods. He has published several books, book chapters and magazine articles (including in the yearbook Extremism & Democracy ) and regularly reports on his research topics in the media (including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , ZDFinfo , Deutschlandfunk ). Mannewitz has received several awards for his research, including the 2014 award from the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne for his habilitation thesis and the special award from the Erich Glowatzky Foundation in 2017. In 2019 he was one of four young scientists who won the Federal President's “Call for Papers” on “Democracy of the Future”, which was announced at the 2018 DVPW Annual Congress. Mannewitz is a member of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW), the German Society for Political Science (DGfP) and, since June 2017, an expert in the Enquete Commission of the Thuringian State Parliament "Causes and forms of racism and discrimination in Thuringia and their effects on social coexistence and free democracy ”.

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Monographs

  • Post-communist parties in Central Eastern European democracies. Conditions of her parliamentary entry, Munich 2011.
  • Left-wing extremist parties in Europe after 1990. Causes of election successes and failures, Baden-Baden 2012.
  • Political culture and democratic constitutional state. A sub-national comparison two decades after German reunification, Baden-Baden 2015.
  • With Herman Ruch / Tom Thieme / Thorsten Winkelmann: What is political extremism? Basics, manifestations, intervention approaches, Frankfurt a. M. 2018.

Editorships

  • Political culture in the "city of modernity". Chemnitz attitudes towards democracy, politicians and participation, Chemnitz 2017.
  • Democracy and its defects. Analyzes and reform proposals, Wiesbaden 2018.
  • With Eckhard Jesse: Extremism research. Handbook for Science and Practice, Baden-Baden 2018.
  • With Sebastian Liebold / Madeleine Petschke / Tom Thieme: Democracy in troubled times. Festschrift for Eckhard Jesse, Baden-Baden 2018.
  • With Adriaan Kühn: Protest on the Rise? Political Aftershocks of the Financial and the Migrant Crisis in Germany and Spain, Madrid 2018.
  • With Eckhard Jesse / Isabelle-Christine Panreck: Populism and Democracy. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Baden-Baden 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mario Steinebach: The political scientist's toolkit. Press office of the TU Chemnitz, October 28, 2014, accessed on December 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Vita , tu-chemnitz.de, accessed on December 12, 2019.
  3. ^ Mario Steinebach: Excellent habilitation thesis. Press office of the TU Chemnitz, October 15, 2016, accessed on December 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Mannewitz, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up