Professor Emeritus
Prof. em. Dr. Hans Kastendiek
Curriculum vitae
Studies and posts held
- Student of Political Science from 1965 to 1969, Free University of Berlin and University of Glasgow; Diploma in Pol. Science 1969
- Lecturer from 1970 to 1976 and Assistant Professor from 1976 to 1982, Department of Political Science, FU Berlin; Dr. rer. pol. 1976; Habilitation (qualification for professorship) 1982; Honorary Reader (Privatdozent) at the department until 1990
- Wolfson Fellowship of the British Academy and Research Visitor to the Department of Government, University of Essex, Oct. 1979 to March 1980
- Research Officer, Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, 1982 to 1985
- Guest Lecturer, Institute for Social Economy, Universitetscenter Roskilde/Denmark, 1986
- Lecturer in Politics, Politics Department, University of Edinburgh, 1987 to 1989
- Research Visitor, Berlin Social Science Center, Oct. to Dec. 1989
- Reader (Hochschuldozent) in British and American Area Studies, Department of Anglistics and American Studies, University of Giessen, 1990 to 1993
- Fulbright Scholarship for German university teachers taking part in an American Studies Summer Institute in New York, 6 weeks in 1993
- Professor of British and American Cultural and Social Studies, Institute for Anglistics and American Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology, from 1993 until retirement in 2008
Teaching fields
- West German politics and society, British politics, FU Berlin, 1970 – 1987
- British politics, University of Edinburgh, 1987 – 1989
- British and American cultural and social studies, University of Giessen and Chemnitz University of Technology, 1990 – 2008
Research topics
- Foundation and development of West German political science as an academic discipline; from 1985 to 1992 member of the International Committee for the Study of the Development of Political Science, a subcommittee of the International Political Science Association
- Marxist state theory, corporatism and party analysis
- Trade unions, industrial relations and the state in Britain, Italy and West Germany; co-responsible for a conference and research project at Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, 1982 – 1985
- Continuity and change in British politics since 1945 with an emphasis on the politics of Thatcherism and New Labour
- British political and constitutional culture: English/British traditions of constitutional thought and the debates on a comprehensive reform of the British constitution in the 1980s and 1990s
- Participation in a doctoral college on “Sustainable Regional Development in East Germany” at Chemnitz University of Technology, 1998 to 2002
Monographs and edited books (selection)
- Kritik der Politischen Wissenschaft. Analysen von Politik und Ökonomie in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, 2 Bände, Campus: Frankfurt und New York 1975 (mit Bernhard Blanke und Ulrich Jürgens)
- Die Entwicklung der westdeutschen Politikwissenschaft, Campus: Frankfurt und New York 1977 (doctoral thesis)
- Technological Change, Rationalisation and Industrial Relations [in Britain, Italy and West Germany], ed. by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek and Marino Regini, Croom Helm: London and Sydney in 1986; reprinted 2018 by Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry, vol. 3, Routledge: London and New York
- Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State [in Britain, Italy and West Germany], ed. by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek and Marino Regini, Croom Helm: London, Sydney and Dover, New Hampshire 1986; reprinted 2023 by Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions, vol. 10, Routledge: London and New York
- The Politics of Flexibility: Restructuring State and Industry in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, ed. by Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek, Klaus Nielsen and Ove K. Pedersen, Edgar Elgar Publishers: Aldershot/England 1991
- Länderbericht Großbritannien, 3., aktualisierte und neubearbeite Auflage, hrsg. von Hans Kastendiek und Roland Sturm, Band 543 der Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Bonn 2006. Eine Lizenzausgabe ist 2007 im Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen und Farmington Hills, erschienen.
Articles and book chapters (selection)
- Zur neueren marxistischen Diskussion über die Analyse von Form und Funktion des bürgerlichen Staates, in: Prokla, Heft 14/15, 1974, S. 51 – 102 (mit Bernhard Blanke und Ulrich Jürgens)
- Neokorporativismus? Thesen und Analyse-Konzepte in der westdeutschen Diskussion und in der internationalen „corporatism“-Debatte, in: Prokla, Heft 38, 1980, S. 81 – 106
- Konservative Wende und industrielle Beziehungen in Großbritannien und in der Bundesrepublik, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Heft 4, 1985, S. 381 – 399 (mit Hella Kastendiek)
- Zwischen Ausgrenzung und krisenpolitischer Konditionierung. Zur Situation der britischen Gewerkschaften, in: Zukunft der Gewerkschaften. Ein internationaler Vergleich, hrsg. von Walther Müller-Jentsch, Campus: Frankfurt am Main und New York 1988, S. 160 – 190
- Die lange Wende in der britischen Gesellschaftspolitik. Zur Interpretation des Thatcherismus, in: Die lange Wende. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Großbritanniens am Ausgang der achtziger Jahre, hrsg. von Richard Stinshoff, Zentrum für pädagogische Berufspraxis der Universität Oldenburg: Oldenburg 1989, S. 17 – 41
- Convergence or a Persistent Diversity of National Politics?, in: The Politics of 1992. Beyond the Single European Market, ed. by Colin Crouch and David Marquand, The Political Quarterly/Basil Blackwell Publishers: Oxford and Cambridge (USA) 1990, pp. 68 – 84
- Political Development and Political Science in West Germany, in: The Development of Political Science, ed. by David Easton, John Gunnell and Luigi Graziano, Routledge: London and New York 1991, pp. 108 – 126
- Traditionelles und neues Verfassungsdenken in Großbritannien, in: Verfassungspolitik und Verfassungswandel. Deutschland und Großbritannien im Vergleich, hrsg. von Gert-Joachim Glaeßner, Charles Jeffery und Werner Reutter, Westdeutscher Verlag: Opladen 2001, S. 29 – 51
- Territorial and Constitutional Politics in the United Kingdom and in the British Empire, in: The Workings of the Anglosphere. Contributions to the Study of British and US-American Cultures, presented to Richard Stinshoff, ed. by Anton Kirchhofer and Jutta Schwarzkopf, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier: Trier 2009, pp. 24 – 40
Former Academic Staff Members
Dr Melanie Kintz
Tracy Rammler, MA
