Uwe Jun

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Uwe Jun (born February 11, 1963 in Braunschweig ) is a German political scientist and professor at the University of Trier .

Life

After studying German, social sciences and philosophy in Braunschweig and Göttingen, Jun 1993 received his doctorate in political science from the social sciences faculty of the University of Göttingen on the subject of "Forming coalitions in the German federal states". He was also a research fellow and lecturer at the Center for European and North American Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen and 1997/98 Weatherhead / Thyssen Research Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in Cambridge / Ma. (UNITED STATES).

In 2003 , Uwe Jun submitted his habilitation thesis “The change of big parties in comparison” to the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam , where he was a research assistant at the chair “Government system of the Federal Republic of Germany” from 1998 to 2004. In 2004/2005 Jun represented the professorship for comparative political science and system theory at the Philosophical Faculty II of the University of Würzburg .

Since 2005, Uwe Jun has been Professor of "Government Theory - Western Government Systems (Federal Republic of Germany)" at the University of Trier, from 2011 to 2017 he was Dean of Faculty III, and from 2019 to 2020 Vice Dean. Jun received offers to the University of Würzburg for the professorship for comparative political science (2007) and to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena for the political system of Germany (2009), but accepted the offers to stay in Trier. For 2018, Jun received an invitation as an "Affiliated Professor" from Södertörns University in Stockholm.

For many years, Uwe Jun has been the spokesman for the “Party Research ” working group of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). He is editor of the series "Parties in Theory and Empiricism" and "Politics and Communication".

Focus

His main research interests are party research , comparative parliamentarianism research, federalism , political communication and coalition research.

Publications

Monographs and editions

  • Formation of coalitions in the German federal states. Theoretical considerations, documentation and analysis of the coalition formation in the German federal states from 1949 to 1992. Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1994.
  • Transnational party alliances between party and world politics. (together with Ernst Kuper). Peter Lang, Frankfurt / New York 1995.
  • The social democratic model. Organizational structures and policy content in transition. (Co-editor, with Jens Borchert, Lutz Golsch and Peter Lösche), Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1996.
  • National Interest and Inclusive Politics in Transnational Parliamentary Assemblies. (Co-editor, with Ernst Kuper), Leske & Budrich, Opladen 1997.
  • Political theory and governance. An introduction to political science institutional research. (Co-editor, with Ludger Helms), Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • The change of parties in media democracy. The SPD and the British Labor Party in comparison. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Small parties on the rise. To change the German party landscape. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006. (Co-editor, with Henry Kreikenbom and Viola Neu).
  • Economic Efficiency - Democratic Empowerment: Contested Modernization in Britain and Germany. (Co-editor, with Ingolfur Blühdorn), Lexington, Lanham / Md. 2007.
  • Parties and party systems in the German federal states. (Co-editor with Melanie Haas and Oskar Niedermayer ). VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008.
  • Transferability of the “Evidence Based Policy Approach” to German politics. (Together with Karsten Grabow ). Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh 2008.
  • Future of the member party. (Co-editor with Oskar Niedermayer and Elmar Wiesendahl). Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2009.
  • Parties as fragmented organizations. Conditions for success and change processes . (Co-editor with Benjamin Höhne). Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Opladen / Farmington Hills 2010.
  • 60 years of the Federal Council. (Co-editor with Sven Leunig). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011.
  • Party families - identity-determining or just a label. (Co-editor with Benjamin Höhne). Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Berlin, Toronto 2012.
  • Turning away from the parties? Party democracy and citizen protest. (Editor, with Benjamin Höhne and Oskar Niedermayer), Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Change and continuity of political communication. (Co-editor with Michael Jäckel). Barbara Budrich Publishing House, Berlin, Toronto 2015.
  • Parties in State and Society. (Co-editor with Sebastian Bukow and Oskar Niedermayer). Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2016.
  • Parties under competitive pressure. (Co-editor with Sebastian Bukow). Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2017.
  • Continuity and Change of Party Democracies in Europe. (Co-editor with Sebastian Bukow). Special edition of the Political Quarterly Journal, Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2020.

Newer posts 2008

  • Informal Government in Germany: Complexity, Transparency and Accountability. In: Ingolfur Blüdorn (Ed.): In Search of Legitimacy. Policy Making in Europe and the Challenge of Societal Complexity. Opladen / Farmington Hills / MI.
  • The Federal Council before and after the federalism reform in 2008. In: Klemens H. Schrenk and Markus Soldner (eds.): The analysis of democratic systems of government. Festschrift for Wolfgang Ismayr, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (i. E.).
  • The Reform Corridor: Voter Coalitions. In: William Paterson and James Sloam (Eds.): The German Crisis and the 2005 Election. Palgrave (i.E), Houndmills.
  • On the way to the grand coalition: Formation of a government in 2005. In: Helge Batt and Jens Tenscher (eds.): 100 days grace period. Politics in Germany between the 2005 federal election and the 2006 state elections. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008.

Web links

Contribution:

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Curriculum Vitae , uni-trier.de, accessed February 26, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Jun, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig