Prof. Dr. Everhard Holtmann

Current Status

Research Director at the Center for Social Research Halle holtmann

Education

1971 M.A. Univ. of Bochum, Germany (Contemporary and Medieval History, Media Science)
1975 Ph.D. Univ. of Bochum, Germany (Contemporary History, Social Sciences)
1986 Habilitation, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (Political Science)

Functions

1992-2012 Chairman of Systems Analysis and Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science of the University Halle
2004-2012 Member and Deputy Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Center for Political Education
2007-2012 Speaker of Collaborative Research Center 580 “Social Developments in Post-Socialistic Societies” (financed by the German Research Foundation) at the Universities of Jena and Halle
since 2000 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal “German Politics”
since 2012 Research Director at Center for Social Research Halle

Research Topics

  • Transformation Politics
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  • Party Politics and Party Systems
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  • Local Politics and Local Governance
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  • Historical Dimensions of Politics and Social Developments
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  • Public Administration
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  • Political Culture
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    Recent Publications (selected)

  • Der Parteienstaat in Deutschland. Erklärungen, Entwicklungen, Erscheinungsbilder, Bonn 2012.
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  • (Co-Editor with Heinrich Best) Aufbruch der entsicherten Gesellschaft. Deutschland nach der Wiedervereinigung, Campus, Frankfurt/M. und New York 2012.
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  • Fluid Local Party Systems: A Bottom-Up Challenge for European Multi-Level-Governance? Germany as an Exemplary Case, in: Eline van Bever/ Herwig Reynart/ Kristof Steyvers (eds.), The Road to Europe: Main Street or Backward Alley for Local Governments in Europe? Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, pp. 49 – 70.
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  • Germany since 1945: Reconstruction of Democracy and German Reunification, in: German Bundestag (eds.), The German Parliament, 5. Aufl., Barbara Budrich, Opladen & Farmington Hills 2009, pp. 55 – 131.
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  • (with Jürgen Ragnitz and Kerstin Voelkl) Ostdeutschland 2020. Die Zukunft des “Aufbau Ost”, edited by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Berlin 2012.
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    A complete bibliography is available

    Kontaktdaten

    Address Zentrum für Sozialforschung e. V., Großer Berlin 14, 06108 Halle (Saale)
    E-mail everhard.holtmann@zsh.uni-halle.de
    Webpage www.zsh-online.de