| Education
| Courses Offered | Research
Interests | Selected Publications
Education:
MA, PhD, University of Munich
Courses Taught
- Political Science 114: Comparative Government and Politics
- Political Science 231: Western European Politics
- Political Science 232: Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
- Political Science 233: The Politics of Modern Germany
- Political
Science 235: European Integration
- Political Science 237: Comparative Public Policy in Selected Industrialized
Democracies
- Political
Science 244: Politics and Literature
- Political
Science 290: Changing Societies --Changing Politics?
- FYS: Freedom and Its Discontents
Professional/Research
Focus
The Politics of Unified
Germany, Democratization in Central Europe, Communist and Postcommunist
Elites,
Regime Change in 20th Century Europe, Higher Education Reform in Germany
Selected Publications
- Co-editor (together with Konrad H. Jarausch), Two Germanies (1961-1989), Vol. 9: German History in Documents and Images. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute (electronic document; German and English
- “Germany: The Berlin Republic Still in Transition,” in: Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, eds., Europe Today. A Twenty-First Century Introduction. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 91-125
- “When Discourse Trumps Policy: Transitional Justice in Unified Germany,” German Politics, 15, 2 (June 2006): 137-152.
- “Higher Education in Germany: reform in incremental steps,” European Journal of Education 39, 3 (September 2004): 359-75.
- "Unified Germany: The Desire for Stability and the
Need for Change," in: Ronald Tiersky, ed., Europe Today.
National Politics, European Integration, and European Security (Lanham: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2004), 211-249
- German Unification: Process and Outcomes,
co-edited with M. Donald Hancock et al. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1994).
- Revolutionarer Wandel auf Befehl? Entnazifizierungs-
und Personalpolitik in Thuringen und Sachsen, 1945-1948. (Revolutionary
Change by Administrative Edict? Denazification and Personnel Turnover
in Thuringia and Saxony, 1945-1948) (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1989).
- "The Elite Conundrum in the GDR: Lessons
from the District Level," German Studies Review, XXIV,
1 (February 2001), 19-34
- "East-West Electoral Encounters in Unified
Germany," in: David Conradt et al., eds., Power Shift in
Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000, 181-199.
- "Parliamentary Elites in Times of Political
Transition: The Case of Eastern Germany," West European Politics:
19:3 (July 1996), 507-524.
- "Dealing with the Communist Past: Central and
East European Experiences after 1990," Europe-Asia Studies,
48:3 (May 1996), 413-428.
- "Political Transition Processes in Central and
Eastern Europe," Comparative Politics, 26,4 (July 1994), 379-394.
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