Department of Governmental Systems in Europe in Comparison






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Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier

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Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier holds a Professorial Chair on Governmental systems in Europe in Comparison
He is also a member of the:

  • board of department council of Political Science
  • examination board of the Department of Political Science
  • faculty board (Faculty of Philosophy)

 

Office address and office hours

Adresse Thüringer Weg 9, room 209

Adresse 09126 Chemnitz

Telefon phone. (0371) 531-3 76 12

Fax fax (0371) 531-...

E-Mail gerd.strohmeier@...

Office hours: Tuesday, 4-5 pm.

Academic background

  • born in 1975
  • 1996 -1999: MA in Political Science, Psychology and Sociology at Passau University (participation in Gifted and Talented Scholarship Programme - Passau University/HSS)
  • 1997-1999: student employee in project management at Passau University
  • 1999 -2002: academic employee
  • 1999-2001: completion of PhD (participation in PhD Scholarship Programme - Passau University)
  • 2002-2004: academic assistant and postdoctoral thesis in Political Science at Passau University
  • 2003-2004: research and study sojourn abroad, i.e. visiting scholar - University of Cambridge (Faculty of Social and Political Science) and Wolfson College, entitled to DAADs post doctoral scholarship programme visiting professorship as well as visiting fellow at University of Durham (Department of Politics and Van Mildert College, Arthur Prowse Fellowship) and University of Wrocław (ERASMUS and Sokrates sponsorship)
  • 2004: Friedwart Bruckhaus Prize (Hans Martin Schleyer Foundation 2003/2004)
  • 2004-2008: associate professor at Passau University
  • 2006-2008: adjunct professor at Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg
  • 2007-2008: adjunct professor at Bundeswehr University of Munich
  • since 2008: Chair of Governmental Systems in Europe in Comparison at Chemnitz University of Technology
  • since 2006: research project supervisor for numerous research projects in association with German Federal Armed Forces Association, Police Trade Union (GdP) and Robert Bosch Foundation
  • since 2007: responsibility for HSS graduate school: Politik und Parteientwicklung in Europa (with Prof. Dr. Eckhard Jesse and Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm)
  • since 2009: board member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft

Specialization in:

  • parliamentary forms of government
  • governability
  • electoral systems
  • election campaigns
  • political communication

Current publications

  • Gerd Strohmeier: Westminster im Wandel, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, B 4/2011.
  • Gerd Strohmeier: Wären Minderheitsregierungen in Deutschland auf Bundesebene besser als ihr Ruf? Mahnung aus Weimar und Verheißung aus Skandinavien, in: Jesse, Eck­hard / Sturm, Roland (Koord.): Bilanz der Bundestagswahl 2009, Voraus­setzun­gen, Ergebnisse, Folgen, München: Bayerische Landeszentrale für po­litische Bildungsarbeit, 2010.
  • Gerd Strohmeier: Der Papst im Spiegel der Öffentlichkeit. Ergebnisse mangelhafter Kommunikationspolitik, untersucht anhand von zwei Fallbeispielen, in: Communicatio Socialis (2010) 4.
  • Gerd Strohmeier, Ruth Wittlinger: Bundespräsident Horst Köhler - eine (kritische) Analyse, in: Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, 8 (2010) 2.
  • Gerd Strohmeier, Ruth Wittlinger: Parliamentary Heads of State: Players or Figureheads? The Case of Horst Köhler, in: West European Politics, 33 (March 2010) 2.

 Last Update: February 2011.