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Wolfgang Merkel

John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2024-2025 & 2016-2017; Visiting Scholar & John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 1988-1989
Wolfgang Merkel

Biography

Wolfgang Merkel

Wolfgang Merkel served as director of the “Democracy and Democratization” research program at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and a professor of political science at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been a member of a number of key bodies, including the prestigious Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is also a non-party member of the Basic Values Commission of the Executive Committee of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Merkel was the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) in 1988. Previously, he served as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow in fall 2016.

This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

  • Professor Emeritus, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
  • John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016-2017, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 1988-1989, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Visiting Scholar 1988-1989, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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The Pitfalls of Militant Democracy: The (Problematic) Case of Germany
Nov 14, 2024 1h:16m

Recent Publications

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.

de Wilde, P., Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, and Michael Zürn. The Struggle over Borders. Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Merkel, W. and Sascha Kneip. Democracy and Crisis: Challenges in Turbulent Times. Springer, 2018.

Merkel, W., Raij Kollmorgen and Hans-Jürgen Wagener. Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford University Press, 2018.

 
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