Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
Contact
Barbara Schlüter
fon: +49 30 25491-221
mail: barbara.schlueter@wzb.eu
D-10785 Berlin
Research fields
CV
Since 2021 senior scholar at the Democracy Institute/CEU in Budapest
2007 Appointment as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2004 - 2020 Director of the research unit "Democracy and Democratization" at the WZB - Berlin Social Science Center
Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Arts III, Department of Social Sciences
1998 Call for a professorship in political science (C4) from the University of Heidelberg
1994 Acceptance of a call for a professorship in political science/comparative governance (C3) from the University of Mainz
Selected Publications
Merkel, Wolfgang (2004): "Embedded and Defective Democracies". In: Aurel Croissant/Wolfgang Merkel (Eds.): Special Issue of Democratization: Consolidated or Defective Democracy? Problems of Regime Change, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 33-58
2011-2014
Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships. Explaining the Stability of Autocratic Regimes, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Participating scientists: Wolfgang Merkel, Christoph Stefes, Alexander Schmotz, Johannes Gerschewski, Dag Tanneberg
2010-2014
The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism
Project directors: Wolfgang Merkel, Ruud Koopmans, Michael Zürn
Participating scientists: Onawa Promise Lacewell, Pieter de Wilde, Oliver Strijbis, Bernhard Weßels
since 2005
Democracy Barometer, NCCR Democracy, University of Zurich, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Project leaders: Wolfgang Merkel, Daniel Bochsler (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)
Participating scientists: Marc Bühlmann (Universität Bern), Heiko Giebler, Dag Tanneberg, Bernhard Weßels
Doctoral student: Lisa Müller (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)
Contact
Barbara Schlüter
fon: +49 30 25491-221
mail: barbara.schlueter@wzb.eu
D-10785 Berlin
