Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel

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David Ausserhofer
Professor Emeritus

Research fields

Political regimes: Democracy - dictatorships | Democratization | Political parties | Social democracy | Social justice

CV

2020 - 2022 Fellow at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University (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 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

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2023
Lührmann, Anna/Merkel, Wolfgang (Eds.) (2023): Resilience of Democracy. Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges. London/New York, NY: Routledge, 186 S.
Merkel, Wolfgang (2023): Im Zwielicht. Zerbrechlichkeit und Resilienz der Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt a.M./New York, NY: Campus, 381 S.
Schäfer, Andreas/Merkel, Wolfgang (2023): "Emancipation against All Odds? The Conservatism Charge to Deliberative Democracy Reconsidered". In: Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Vol. 19, No. 1, S. 1-13.
2021
Merkel, Wolfgang/Lührmann, Anna (2021): "Resilience of Democracies. Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges - Introduction". In: Democratization, Vol. 28, No. 5, Special Issue "Resilience of Democracies. Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges, edited by Wolfgang Merkel/Anna Lührmann, S. 869-884.
2019
Merkel, Wolfgang/Kollmorgen, Raj/Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (Eds.) (2019): The Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford/New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (Handbuch der Transformationsforschung, in englischer Sprache)
de Wilde, Pieter/Koopmans, Ruud/Merkel, Wolfgang/Strijbis, Oliver/Zürn, Michael (Eds.) (2019): The Struggle Over Borders. Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, XI, 276 S.
2018
Merkel, Wolfgang/Kneip, Sascha (Eds.) (2018): Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times. Cham u.a.: Springer International Publishing. (Demokratie und Krise. Zum schwierigen Verhältnis von Theorie und Empirie, in englischer Sprache)
2015
Kollmorgen, Raj/Merkel, Wolfgang/Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (Hg.) (2015): Handbuch Transformationsforschung. Springer VS, X, 789 S.
2014
Merkel, Wolfgang (2014): "Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?". In: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2, S. 109-128.
2010
Merkel, Wolfgang (2010): Systemtransformation. Eine Einführung in die Theorie und Empirie der Transformationsforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 561 S.

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