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Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel
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University Education:
2000 | Habilitation ("Higher Doctorate") Political Science, Free University of Berlin | 1996 | Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Potsdam (Distinction) | 1991 | M.A. in Political Science and Economic History, University of the Saarland |
Research and Teaching Positions:
2006-now | Full Professor of Political Science (tenured), Jacobs University Bremen | 2007 | Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine, USA | 2006 | Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine, USA | 2002-2005 | Associate Professor of Political Science, Jacobs University Bremen | 2001 | Visiting Professor, University of Potsdam, Germany | 1997-2000 | Senior research fellow in the department “Institutions and Social Change” of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany | 1993-1996 | Research fellow and lecturer in German politics, University of Potsdam, Germany | 1992 | Research fellow and lecturer in German and Comparative Politics, University of Mainz, Germany | 1991 | Ph.D. student in political science, University of the Saarland, Germany | 1990 | Research assistant in political science, University of the Saarland, Germany |
Main Research Interests:
- Modernization and social changeDemocratization and direct democracyValue formation and value changeHuman developmentProtest behavior and social movementsCivil society and social capital
Funded Projects:
European and World Values Surveys
2009 | POSTCO-fellowship for visiting scholars, East West Center, University of Hawaii (USD 10,000) | 2008 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Grant for Transatlantic Cooperation project 2008-10 (€ 30,000) | 2008 | DFG Visiting Scholars Grant for funding research stays at U Michigan and UC Irvine (€ 5,500) | 2007 | Excellence Initiative grant (€ 5 Mio.) to establish the PhD graduate school “Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences” (member of the six-headed group of authors) | 2007 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award to undertake research in South Africa 2007-09 (€ 20,000) | 2007 | UC Berkeley, Center for European Sstudies, Visiting Fellowship grant (USD 10,000) | 2006 | Three-year grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to conduct the research project “Ursachen und Folgen des postindustriellen Wertewandels: Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich” (€ 350,000) | 2002 | Grant from the Thyssen-Foundation to conduct the international conference “Reassessing Democracy” (€ 15,000) | 2001 | Grant from the European Commission for the research project Terra 2000: The Social Fabric (with Hans-Dieter Klingemann) | 2000 | Grant from the Social Science Research Center for research at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 1999 | Grant from Thyssen-Foundation for the project Parties and Party Systems in Eastern and Central Europe (with Hans-Dieter Klingemann) | 1998 | Grant from the Social Science Research Center for research at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 1991 | Ph.D. grant from the state government of the Saarland, Germany |
Other Professional Activities:
Vice President of the World Values Survey Association, official representative to the European Consortium of Political Research
Academic Publications:
Edited Volumes 2009: [C. Haerpfer, P. Bernhagen, R. Inglehart, C. Welzel (eds.)] Democratization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Monographs2005: [R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy:The Human Development Sequence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals2009: [R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] “What Do We Know About Modernization Today?” Foreign Affairs 88 (2):33-48.2008: [H. Brockmann, J. Delhey, C. Welzel, H. Yuan] “The China Puzzle: Falling Happiness in a Rising Economy.” Journal of Happiness Studies 8 (4).2008: [R. Inglehart, R. Foa, C. Peterson, C. Welzel] “Development, Freedom and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective 1981-2006.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 3 (4):264-85.2008: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Democratization as Human Empowerment.” Journal of Democracy 19 (1): 126-40.2007: [C. Welzel] “Are Levels of Democracy Influenced by Mass Attitudes?” International Political Science Review 28 (4): 397-424.2006: [C. Welzel] “Democratization as an Emancipative Process.” European Journal of Political Research 45 (6): 871-896.2006: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Emancipative Values and Democracy.” Studies in Comparative International Development 41 (3), 74-94.2006: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Democratization as the Growth of Freedom: The Human Development Perspective.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 6 (3), 313-343.2005: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart, F. Deutsch] “Social Capital, Voluntary Associations, and Collective Action: Which Aspects of Social Capital Have the Greatest ‘Civic’ Payoff?” Journal of Civil Society 1 (2), 121-146.2005: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Liberalism, Postmaterialism, and the Growth of Freedom: The Human Development Perspective.” International Review of Sociology 15 (1), 81-108.2005: [R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] “Exploring the Unknown: Predicting the Responses of Publics Not Yet Surveyed.” International Review of Sociology 15 (1), 173-204.2003: [R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] “Political Culture and Democracy: Analyzing Crosslevel Linkages.” Comparative Politics 36 (1), 61-79.2003: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart, H.-D. Klingemann] “The Theory of Human Development: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.” European Journal of Political Research 42 (3), 341-380.2003: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Exemplary versus Statistical Evidence? Response to Berg-Schlosser.” European Journal of Political Research 42 (2), 386-389.2002: [C. Welzel] “Effective Democracy, Mass Culture, and the Quality of Elites: The Human Development Perspective.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 43 (3), 317-349.2002: [R. Inglehart, P. Norris, C. Welzel] “Gender Equality and Democracy.” Comparative Sociology 1 (3-4), 235-264.
Chapters in Edited Volumes2009: [C. Welzel] “Theories of Democratization,” in: C. Haerpfer, P. Bernhagen, R. Inglehart, C. Welzel (eds.), Democratization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 74-90.2007: [C. Welzel] “Individual Modernity,” in: R.J. Dalton & H.-D. Klingemann (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 185-295.2007: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “The Role of Mass Beliefs in Comparative Politics,” in: C.S. Boix, S. Stokes (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 297-316.2007: [C. Welzel, F. Deutsch] “Value Patterns in Europe and the United States: Is there a Transatlantic Rift?” in: H. Anheier, Y.R. Isar (eds.), Conflicts and Tensions (The Cultures and Globalization Series, Vol. 1), London: Sage, pp. 241-252.2006: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “The Human Development Model of Democracy: East Asia in Perspective,” in: R.J. Dalton, D.C. Shin (eds.), Citizens, Democracy, and Markets around the Pacific Rim, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-49.2004: [C. Welzel] “A Theory of Human Development: The Cross-Cultural Evidence,” in: F. Hardt (ed.), Mapping the World: New Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Tübingen: Francke, 119-146.
Handbook Articles2009: [C. Welzel] “Political Culture,” in: T. Landman, N. Robinson (ed.), Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, London: Sage, pp. 299-318.2007: [R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] “Modernization,” in: G. Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sociology, New York: Blackwell, pp. 3071-3078.2002: [R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] “Political Culture and Democracy,” in: H. Wiarda (ed.), New Directions in Comparative Politics. New York: Westview Press, 141-164.
Research Papers2008: [C. Welzel, H.-D. Klingemann] “Evidencing and Explaining Democratic Congruence: The Perspective of ‘Substantive’ Democracy.” World Values Research 1(3):57-94.2008: [C. Welzel, A. Alexander] “Measuring Effective Democracy: The Human Empowerment Approach.” World Values Research 1(1):1-34.2008: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Democratization as Human Empowerment: The Role of Ordinary People in Democratization.” Center for the Study of Democracy Paper 08-04 (downloadable at http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/ 08-04).2006: [C. Welzel] “Are Levels of Democracy Influenced by Mass Attitudes? Testing a Central Premise of the Political Culture Approach.” Center for the Study of Democracy Paper 06-05 (downloadable at http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/06-05).2002: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart] “Human Development and the ‘Explosion’ of Democracy: Variations of Regime Change across 60 Nations.” WZB-Discussion Paper FS III 01-202.2001: [C. Welzel, R. Inglehart, H.-D. Klingemann] “Human Development as A General Theory of Social Change: A Multi-Level and Cross-Cultural Perspective.” WZB-Discussion Paper FS III 01-201.Under Review[C. Welzel, A. Alexander] “Explaining Women’s Empowerment: The Role of Emancipative Values.” Under review at American Sociological Review.[A. Alexander, C. Welzel] “Islam’s Patriarchal Effect: Spurious or Substantive?.” Under review at Journal of Politics.[R. Inglehart, C. Welzel] “Survey Data as Indicators of Social Development.” Under review at Public Opinion Quarterly.[C. Welzel] “How Selfish Are Self-Expression Values: A Test of Civicness.” Under review at Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology.[C. Welzel, H.-D. Klingemann] “Evidencing and Explaining Democratic Congruence: The Perspective of ‘Substantive’ Democracy.” Under review at World Politics.[C. Welzel, A. Alexander] “Measuring Effective Democracy: The Human Empowerment Approach.” Under review at Comparative Politics.For a full publication list visit: www.jacobs-university.de/schools/shss/cwelzel. Status: March 2009
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