Ursula Münch

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Ursula Münch (* 1961 in Esslingen am Neckar , Baden-Württemberg ) is Professor of Political Science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and Director of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg . She is a member of numerous scientific committees, including the Science Council , the University Council of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and the directorate of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). Since 2019 she has been a regular guest at the Sunday get-together in the BR.

Life

After graduating from high school in Göppingen in 1980 , she studied political science , communication science , psychology and modern history at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich from 1980 to 1985 . From 1986 to 1996 she was a research assistant at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the LMU and a lecturer at the University of Politics in Munich . In 1989 she was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD in political science at the LMU with a thesis on family policy in the Federal Republic of Germany .

In 1993 she was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis , United States. In 1996 she completed her habilitation at the LMU. From 1996 to 1999 she was first a professor and then a professor at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science as well as a private lecturer at the LMU.

Since 1999 she has been Professor of Political Science (with a special focus on domestic politics and comparative government theory ) at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. From 2006 to 2009 she was vice dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences there, and from 2009 to 2011 dean. Since November 1, 2011, Münch has been the director of the Academy for Political Education in Tutzing. For this she was given leave of absence from the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

From 1999 to 2002, Münch was a member of the Enquete Commission of the Bavarian State Parliament on the “Reform of Federalism - Strengthening the State Parliaments”. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Parliament's Commission on the Rights of Representatives.

In October 2014 Münch was elected to the University Council of the LMU Munich. She has been a member of the Science Council since February 2015 and since September 2018 the Director of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). Among other things, Münch is a member of the University Advisory Board of the Munich School of Politics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the ethics committee of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). Until 2018 she was chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich and a member of the Small Convention (scientific advisory board) of the Schader Foundation .

Münch is married and has two children.

research

Ursula Münch's research interests include federalism and party research as well as policy field analyzes (asylum and immigration policy, educational policy , family policy , internal security ). In addition, she works on questions of social integration, demographic change and the effects of digital transformation on politics and society.

Teaching

Her university teaching focuses on the analysis of the political system in Germany and various Western democracies on comparative government and its research approaches. But she also teaches democracy and state theories as well as political decision-making and decision-making processes in parliament, government, parties and associations.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • with Emil Huebner: The political system of the USA. An introduction , 7th, revised and updated edition. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64428-3 .
  • with Heinz Laufer: The federal system of the Federal Republic of Germany. 8th, revised edition. Bavarian State Center for Political Education, Munich 2010.
  • Free State in the state. Bavaria's policy in 50 years of the Federal Republic of Germany. Olzog, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7892-8021-6 .
  • Social policy and federalism. On the dynamics of the distribution of tasks in the social federal state. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-8100-1818-X .
  • Asylum Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Development and alternatives. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1992, ISBN 3-8100-0955-5 (2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Ibid 1993, ISBN 3-8100-1125-8 ).
  • Family Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Measures, deficits, organization of state activity in family policy. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1990, ISBN 3-7841-0495-9 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 1989).

Essays

  • Political science dimensions of development and status of West German federalism. In: Ines Härtel (Ed.): Handbuch Föderalismus. Volume 1: Fundamentals of Federalism and the German Federal State. Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-01572-4 , pp. 179-195, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-01573-1_9 .
  • German educational federalism - opportunities and risks. In: Alain-G. Gagnon, Roland Sturm (Ed.): Federalism as constitutional reality. Germany and Canada in comparison. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6760-4 , pp. 173-191.
  • Federal and party political interdependencies in school policy innovation processes. In: Yearbook of Federalism. 2010, ISSN  1616-6558 , pp. 188-199.
  • Family policy, youth policy, senior citizens policy. In: Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security (ed.): History of social policy in Germany since 1945. Volume 4: Michael Ruck , Marcel Boldorf (ed.): 1957–1966. Federal Republic of Germany. Social policy under the sign of the achieved prosperity. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-7890-7319-9 , pp. 547-609.
  • Competitive Federalism for the Federal Republic: A Reform Debate Between Wishful Thinking and Political Feasibility. In: Yearbook of Federalism. 2001, pp. 115-127.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Prof. Dr. Ursula Münch. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  2. a b Science Council - Members. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  3. a b The University Council of the LMU Munich - LMU Munich. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  4. a b Directory. In: bidt. Retrieved on March 3, 2020 (German).
  5. Abendzeitung Germany: Ursula Münch is the new one at the BR Sunday regulars table. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  6. Prof. Dr. Ursula Münch. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  7. Organs - University of Politics. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  8. Ethics Committee. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  9. Ursula Münch. Retrieved on March 3, 2020 (German).