Heinrich Best
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3898487 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Heinrich Best |
| NOMBRES | Heinrich |
| APELLIDO | Best |
| FIRMA | BEST H |
| AFILIACIONES | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Auf der Suche nach der ostdeutschen Identität
The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites
Elitų Europa
In this article we analyze the background and extent of the Europeanness of political and economic elites in the EU member states. The focus on the elites is based on the premise that European unification is still largely driven by the national elites of the EU member states. Europeanness of the elites is defined and operationalised along the lines of emotive, cognitive-evaluative, and projective dimensions. The emotive dimension is operationaliz…
The Sociology of Legislators and Legislatures
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft in Vergleichender Perspektive
The Elite–Population Gap in the Formation of Political Identities. A Cross-Cultural Investigation
There is a widely shared understanding that mass political identities are powerful social forces which define the makeup of and the relationship between large collectivities. They translate cogniti
Does Personality Matter in Politics? Personality Factors as Determinants of Parliamentary Recruitment and Policy Preferences
This article inquires into the impact of personality factors on the selection and self-selection of parliamentary elites. I compare personality profiles of German MPs and the German population obtained through survey research, and for some comparisons I utilize elite and mass samples matched for education, gender, and age. I ask further if MPs' personalities have an impact on their preferences for expansionist or restricted government budgets and…
Democratic Elitism
Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately dem…
History Matters
Discussions of mass, group, or collective identity tend to be characterised by an abundance of theoretical and conceptual disputes and a relative lack of empirical foundation; in particular there i
Associated Rivals
This article explores the failures and achievements of democratic elitism in Germany. I first outline the conditions in which concepts of leader democracy and democratic elitism were set forth by Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter during the first half of the twentieth century. I then argue that democratic elitism can usefully be reformulated in terms of principal-agent theory and William Sumner's theory of antagonistic cooperation. I present empiri…
Democratic Elitism Reappraised
During the postwar decades following Joseph Schumpeter's seminal Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, democratic elitism struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works - even though convinced democrats detected an 'elitist' thrust they found disturbing. But during the last several decades political elites and leaders have wielded more power and influence in Western democracies than Schumpeter and his early …
Democratic Representation in Europe
Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and convergence explores representation as a core element of democracies in the modern era. Over the past 150 years parliamentary representation has developed into a main link between polity and society, and parliamentary representatives have come to form the nucleus of political elites. The twenty authors of the 16 chapters follow a comparative and empirical approach by exploiting the unique…
Democratic Representation in Europe
New Challenges, New Elites? Changes in the Recruitment and Career Patterns of European Representative Elites
Long term changes in the recruitment patterns of European representative elites can be described as the aggregate result of selectorates' responses to a sequence of fundamental problems challenging polities since the emergence of modern representative political institutions in the 19th century. Recent data show that some long-term trends of (Western) European parliamentary recruitment like the increase of MPs with a public sector background have …
Politik als prekäres Beschäftigungsverhältnis
The social figure of the professional politician describes a politician who makes a living from politics and is caught between democratization and professionalization. Career structure and interview data of German Members of the European Parliament, Members of the Bundestag and of selected parliaments at state level (Länder) since reunification 1990 make clear that politics can be depicted as an awkward employment. It cannot be characterized as p…
Detours to Modernity
Looking at the political history of modern France since 1789, the most obvious, and to some extent stereotypical, characteristics are discontinuity and division: popular upheavals and frequent changes of constitutional settings, extended periods of governmental instability and fierce conflict between opposing political currents dominate the historical record. However, underneath this choppy surface, we find more steady undercurrents which manifes…
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848–2000
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. Through individual country chapters, written by international experts native to each area, the b…
Prozeß-produzierte Daten als empirisches Material für eine Soziologie des realen Sozialismus
Das Ende des Staatssozialismus in Europa und seine Transformation zur Konkurrenzdemokratie und marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung hat die Sozialwissenschaften vor eine zweifache Herausforderung gestellt, die sie wohl noch für einige Zeit beschäftigen wird: zum einen die Erforschung des Übergangs zwischen grundlegend unterschiedlichen Sozialordnungen, zum anderen die retrospektive Rekonstruktion des „realen Sozialismus“, dessen Untergang erstmals einen…
Elites in Transition
Die deutsche Gesellschaft in vergleichender Perspektive
Die deutsche Gesellschaft in vergleichender Perspektive
Disorder Yields to Order Fair the Place”
In this article Professor Best writes as a social scientist interested in how historical data can be used statistically to test hypotheses about conflict structures. The study uses the voting data from the two Constituent Assemblies of 1848 in Paris and Frankfurt to test alternative theories about the development of conflict in democratic assemblies elected on universal male suffrage. One predicts that free elections would naturally generate comp…
From Paradigms To Eclecticism
De paradigmes à l'électicisme: Profiles thématiques des revues en sciences sociales de langue allemande 1984-1991. La banque de données bibliographique SOLIS (Système d'information pour la littérature en sciences sociales) du Centre d'information en sciences sociales à Bonn a été utilisée comme base empirique pour une recherche sur le changement thématique et la structure paradigmatique de la sociologie dans les pays de langue allemande. Les arti…
Informations- und Wissensverarbeitung in den Sozialwissenschaften
Im Rahmen mehrerer Veranstaltungen hat das Informationszentrum Sozial wissenschaften seit 1989 die aktuelle Diskussion um Einsatz und Nutzen von 1 moderner Informationstechnologie in den Sozialwissens
Die Genese politischer Konfliktstrukturen
Best entwickelt anhand der spezifischen Konstellation der "Schwellenzeit" der europischen Revolution 1848/49 allgemeine Aussagen ber die Genese politischer Konfliktstrukturen. Berichtet wird ber die Formierung von Interaktionssystemen in zwei Parlamenten, die zum Ausgangspunkt moderner Parteibildungen in Westeuropa und Mitteleuropa wurden. Empirischer Gegenstand sind die Abgeordneten der beiden konstituierenden Versammlungen, die im Mai 1848 in P…
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848–2000
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. Through individual country chapters, written by international experts native to each area, the b…
New Challenges, New Elites? Changes in the Recruitment and Career Patterns of European Representative Elites
Long term changes in the recruitment patterns of European representative elites can be described as the aggregate result of selectorates' responses to a sequence of fundamental problems challenging polities since the emergence of modern representative political institutions in the 19th century. Recent data show that some long-term trends of (Western) European parliamentary recruitment like the increase of MPs with a public sector background have …
Does Personality Matter in Politics? Personality Factors as Determinants of Parliamentary Recruitment and Policy Preferences
This article inquires into the impact of personality factors on the selection and self-selection of parliamentary elites. I compare personality profiles of German MPs and the German population obtained through survey research, and for some comparisons I utilize elite and mass samples matched for education, gender, and age. I ask further if MPs' personalities have an impact on their preferences for expansionist or restricted government budgets and…
Democratic Elitism
Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately dem…
History Matters
Discussions of mass, group, or collective identity tend to be characterised by an abundance of theoretical and conceptual disputes and a relative lack of empirical foundation; in particular there i
The Elite–Population Gap in the Formation of Political Identities. A Cross-Cultural Investigation
There is a widely shared understanding that mass political identities are powerful social forces which define the makeup of and the relationship between large collectivities. They translate cogniti
Associated Rivals
This article explores the failures and achievements of democratic elitism in Germany. I first outline the conditions in which concepts of leader democracy and democratic elitism were set forth by Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter during the first half of the twentieth century. I then argue that democratic elitism can usefully be reformulated in terms of principal-agent theory and William Sumner's theory of antagonistic cooperation. I present empiri…
Disorder Yields to Order Fair the Place”
In this article Professor Best writes as a social scientist interested in how historical data can be used statistically to test hypotheses about conflict structures. The study uses the voting data from the two Constituent Assemblies of 1848 in Paris and Frankfurt to test alternative theories about the development of conflict in democratic assemblies elected on universal male suffrage. One predicts that free elections would naturally generate comp…
Elitų Europa
In this article we analyze the background and extent of the Europeanness of political and economic elites in the EU member states. The focus on the elites is based on the premise that European unification is still largely driven by the national elites of the EU member states. Europeanness of the elites is defined and operationalised along the lines of emotive, cognitive-evaluative, and projective dimensions. The emotive dimension is operationaliz…
Democratic Elitism Reappraised
During the postwar decades following Joseph Schumpeter's seminal Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, democratic elitism struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works - even though convinced democrats detected an 'elitist' thrust they found disturbing. But during the last several decades political elites and leaders have wielded more power and influence in Western democracies than Schumpeter and his early …
Quantitative Methoden in der historisch-sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung
Im vorliegenden Sammelband (entstanden aus einer Sonderveranstaltung von QUANTUM e.V. "Die Analyse prozeß-produzierter Daten" anläßlich des Deutschen Soziologentages 1976) beschäftigen sich verschiedene Autoren mit einer Richtung der empirischen Sozialforschung, die - bislang nur in bestimmten Bindestrich-Soziologien vorherrschend - vor allem angesichts der sichtbaren Begrenzungen der Umfrageforschung immer stärker an Bedeutung gewinnt. Als "proz…
Theory and Method in Recent German Historical Studies
Interessenpolitik und nationale Integration 1848/49
La bourgeoisie allemande a-t-elle trahi la révolution de 1848 ? Bilan d'une analyse sérielle
Heinrich Best. La bourgeoisie allemande a-t-elle trahi la révolution de 1848 ? Bilan d'une analyse sérielle. Un courant important de l'historiographie allemande tient pour assuré que la révolution de 1848 a en quelque sorte été « trahie » par la bourgeoisie qui aurait sacrifié ses idéaux de liberté à la défense du statu quo. Pour mesurer empiriquement la valeur de cette assertion, on définit la bourgeoisie comme regroupant les groupes socio-écono…
Die Genese politischer Konfliktstrukturen
Best entwickelt anhand der spezifischen Konstellation der "Schwellenzeit" der europischen Revolution 1848/49 allgemeine Aussagen ber die Genese politischer Konfliktstrukturen. Berichtet wird ber die Formierung von Interaktionssystemen in zwei Parlamenten, die zum Ausgangspunkt moderner Parteibildungen in Westeuropa und Mitteleuropa wurden. Empirischer Gegenstand sind die Abgeordneten der beiden konstituierenden Versammlungen, die im Mai 1848 in P…
From Paradigms To Eclecticism
De paradigmes à l'électicisme: Profiles thématiques des revues en sciences sociales de langue allemande 1984-1991. La banque de données bibliographique SOLIS (Système d'information pour la littérature en sciences sociales) du Centre d'information en sciences sociales à Bonn a été utilisée comme base empirique pour une recherche sur le changement thématique et la structure paradigmatique de la sociologie dans les pays de langue allemande. Les arti…
Informations- und Wissensverarbeitung in den Sozialwissenschaften
Im Rahmen mehrerer Veranstaltungen hat das Informationszentrum Sozial wissenschaften seit 1989 die aktuelle Diskussion um Einsatz und Nutzen von 1 moderner Informationstechnologie in den Sozialwissens
Die deutsche Gesellschaft in vergleichender Perspektive
Die deutsche Gesellschaft in vergleichender Perspektive
Disorder Yields to Order Fair the Place”
In this article Professor Best writes as a social scientist interested in how historical data can be used statistically to test hypotheses about conflict structures. The study uses the voting data from the two Constituent Assemblies of 1848 in Paris and Frankfurt to test alternative theories about the development of conflict in democratic assemblies elected on universal male suffrage. One predicts that free elections would naturally generate comp…
Elites in Transition
Prozeß-produzierte Daten als empirisches Material für eine Soziologie des realen Sozialismus
Das Ende des Staatssozialismus in Europa und seine Transformation zur Konkurrenzdemokratie und marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung hat die Sozialwissenschaften vor eine zweifache Herausforderung gestellt, die sie wohl noch für einige Zeit beschäftigen wird: zum einen die Erforschung des Übergangs zwischen grundlegend unterschiedlichen Sozialordnungen, zum anderen die retrospektive Rekonstruktion des „realen Sozialismus“, dessen Untergang erstmals einen…
Detours to Modernity
Looking at the political history of modern France since 1789, the most obvious, and to some extent stereotypical, characteristics are discontinuity and division: popular upheavals and frequent changes of constitutional settings, extended periods of governmental instability and fierce conflict between opposing political currents dominate the historical record. However, underneath this choppy surface, we find more steady undercurrents which manifes…
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848–2000
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000 deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. Through individual country chapters, written by international experts native to each area, the b…
Politik als prekäres Beschäftigungsverhältnis
The social figure of the professional politician describes a politician who makes a living from politics and is caught between democratization and professionalization. Career structure and interview data of German Members of the European Parliament, Members of the Bundestag and of selected parliaments at state level (Länder) since reunification 1990 make clear that politics can be depicted as an awkward employment. It cannot be characterized as p…
Democratic Representation in Europe
Democratic Representation in Europe: Diversity, Change and convergence explores representation as a core element of democracies in the modern era. Over the past 150 years parliamentary representation has developed into a main link between polity and society, and parliamentary representatives have come to form the nucleus of political elites. The twenty authors of the 16 chapters follow a comparative and empirical approach by exploiting the unique…
Democratic Representation in Europe
New Challenges, New Elites? Changes in the Recruitment and Career Patterns of European Representative Elites
Long term changes in the recruitment patterns of European representative elites can be described as the aggregate result of selectorates' responses to a sequence of fundamental problems challenging polities since the emergence of modern representative political institutions in the 19th century. Recent data show that some long-term trends of (Western) European parliamentary recruitment like the increase of MPs with a public sector background have …
History Matters
Discussions of mass, group, or collective identity tend to be characterised by an abundance of theoretical and conceptual disputes and a relative lack of empirical foundation; in particular there i
Associated Rivals
This article explores the failures and achievements of democratic elitism in Germany. I first outline the conditions in which concepts of leader democracy and democratic elitism were set forth by Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter during the first half of the twentieth century. I then argue that democratic elitism can usefully be reformulated in terms of principal-agent theory and William Sumner's theory of antagonistic cooperation. I present empiri…
Democratic Elitism Reappraised
During the postwar decades following Joseph Schumpeter's seminal Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, democratic elitism struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works - even though convinced democrats detected an 'elitist' thrust they found disturbing. But during the last several decades political elites and leaders have wielded more power and influence in Western democracies than Schumpeter and his early …
Democratic Elitism
Joseph Schumpeter's “competitive theory of democracy” – often labeled democratic elitism - has struck many as an apt and insightful description of how representative democracy works, even though convinced democrats detect an elitist thrust they find disturbing. But neither Schumpeter nor subsequent defenders of democratic elitism have paid enough attention to actual behaviors of leaders and elites. Attention has been riveted on how adequately dem…
The Elite–Population Gap in the Formation of Political Identities. A Cross-Cultural Investigation
There is a widely shared understanding that mass political identities are powerful social forces which define the makeup of and the relationship between large collectivities. They translate cogniti
Does Personality Matter in Politics? Personality Factors as Determinants of Parliamentary Recruitment and Policy Preferences
This article inquires into the impact of personality factors on the selection and self-selection of parliamentary elites. I compare personality profiles of German MPs and the German population obtained through survey research, and for some comparisons I utilize elite and mass samples matched for education, gender, and age. I ask further if MPs' personalities have an impact on their preferences for expansionist or restricted government budgets and…
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft in Vergleichender Perspektive
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