Dirk Berg‐schlosser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Berg‐schlosser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg‐schlosser |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLOSSER D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2759-6807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Trust and the Borderlines of Democratic Legitimacy
Over the past decade, a decline of democratic legitimacy has been observed in many countries across different world regions. The decline has many facets and borderlines due to international crises, the rise of populism, social polarization and institutional weaknesses. Against this background, the paper focusses on aspects of social and institutional trust as it relates to these developments on a worldwide basis. The analyses rely on the comprehe…
Comparing regime types – ‘most similar’ cases in East Asia
The People's Republic of China (PRC), the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Republic of Singapore represent different types of political regimes and provide a fascinating contrast concerning their performance with regard to the global conflict between liberal democracies and autocracies. This paper examines briefly their common historical backgrounds and provides a detailed analysis of common ‘Asia…
The Sage Handbook of Political Science
Source Agritrop Cirad (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/603489/)
Comparative Area Studies: Epistemological and Methodological Foundations and a Practical Application
In recent decades, area studies have been transformed from mostly descriptive ethnographic and historical accounts to theory-oriented and analytical approaches. They retain some of their depth and cultural specificity, but have been widened in a comparative sense to come up with some broader social scientific explanations. This has been enhanced by more recent systematic comparative methods such as “Qualitative Comparative Analysis” (QCA) and rel…
Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications
Area studies have undergone significant changes over the last two decades. They have been transformed from mostly descriptive accounts in the international context of the Cold War to theory-oriented and methodological analytical approaches. More recent comparative methods such as “Qualitative Comparative Analysis” (QCA) and related approaches, which are particularly suitable for medium N studies, have significantly contributed to this development…
Comparative Studies: Method and Design
The Emergence of Democracy: Forces and Counter-forces
Capitalism and democracy have transformed the world, but not in a harmonious way. This article provides a broad overview of the major driving forces of democracy, its relationship with ongoing socioeconomic developments and some of the countervailing factors. It points to the inherently conflictive nature of democratic procedures and decision-making, but also emphasizes the potentially universal implications of basic democratic values. Against th…
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: Ein Einführendes Studienhandbuch
Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics: Principles and Applications
Introduction The State of the Art of Existing Research A Case Study: Belgium Testing Major Hypotheses Comparative Research Designs Model Specification and Operationalization Establishing Similarities and Dissimilarities of Political Systems Systematic Matching and Contrasting of Cases Reduction of Complexity Cross-Sectional Analysis Longitudinal Analysis Conclusions and Perspectives Bibliography Appendix: List and Sources of Variables
Mixed Methods in Comparative Politics
This book approaches current controversies concerning qualitative and quantitative procedures in the social sciences and incorporates new methods showing how they can supplement each other. It is base
Comparative Area Studies – goldener Mittelweg zwischen Regionalstudien und universalistischen Ansätzen
Political Science Between Vision and Reality: Lessons in Times of Crises
Political science with its rich history, but varying national traditions and contexts, deals with a multi-dimensional and ever-changing subject matter of which we are, inevitably, a part. This poses specific epistemological problems, but also offers the opportunity to contribute to the shaping of political reality by insights and actions. This lecture gives a brief outline of this problematique and then presents, by way of illustration, the findi…
Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach
Locate QCA as an approach and grasp its key epistemological foundations • Understand how and why QCA is “case oriented” and how one should use QCA to engage in a dialogue between cases and theories • Understand the specific conception of causality conveyed in QCA— multiple conjunctural causation—and its practical consequences • Reflect on the usefulness of QCA to reach a certain level of generalization beyond the observed cases • Grasp key common…
Determinants of democratic successes and failures in Africa
This article, first, identifies democratic, authoritarian and ‘praetorian’ political system types in Africa on the basis of major current indicators. It then systematically tests a broad variety of hypotheses concerning the historical, social‐structural, socio‐economic, political and institutional determinants and performance characteristics of these system types. A macro‐quantitative synopsis attempts to identify the most ‘parsimonious’ overall …
Political Science in Europe: Diversity, excellence, relevance
Political science in Europe has been shaped by a great variety of national academic traditions and university systems, its relationship to neighbouring disciplines, and contending meta-theoretical approaches. In addition, since World War II, major external influences have come mainly from the US. Against this background, the special role of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is briefly discussed and evaluated. The conclusions p…
The quality of democracies in Europe as measured by current indicators of democratization and good governance
Despite the steady wave of democratization in recent decades, the progress towards and the levels of democracy vary considerably across Europe. Many studies have been conducted to provide a differentiated outlook at the quality of democracy in each individual country; however, very few attempts have been made to aid the aggregation of discrete information in order to provide some comparative yardsticks for the evaluation of continuing development…
Indicators of Democracy and Good Governance as Measures of the Quality of Democracy in Africa: A Critical Appraisal
Comment on Welzel, Inglehart & Klingemann's ‘The theory of human development: A cross‐cultural analysis’
Authoritarianism and democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative analyses
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface PART I Introduction: D.Berg-Schlosser PART II: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND The Heritage of the First World War J.Holzer Building Nations and Crafting Democracies M.Thompson Social Structural Dynamics J.D.Stephens & G.Kummel Sources of Authoritarianism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe S.Fischer-Galati PART III: THE SOCIAL ARENA: MAJOR FORCES AND ACTORS Organized Interests and …
Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919–39: Comparative Analyses
Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39 offers a comprehensive analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe. The contributors explore factors such as the historical
Conditions of democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic case studies
List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Preface D.Berg-Schlosser & J.Mitchell Foreword J.Linz Notes on the Contributors Introduction D.Berg-Schlosser & J.Mitchell Austria: From Compromise to Authoritarianism P.Gerlich & D.Campbell Belgium: Crisis and Compromise G.De Meur & D.Berg-Schlosser Czechoslovakia: External Crisis and Internal Compromise J.Bradley Estonia: Crisis and 'Pre-Emptive' Authoritarianism T.Varrak Finland: From Conflict to Com…
Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39
Why did democracy survive in some European countries between the wars while fascism or authoritarianism emerged elsewhere? This innovative study approaches this question through the comparative analys
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Democracy in Inter-War Europe: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis
1. Introduction In view of the economic and political crises which are now affecting many parts of the world there has been renewed interest in the question of how major countries and regions previously faced such challenges in order to learn as much as possible from these experiences. The end of the Cold War and the wave of democratization it entailed in many Eastern European and Third World countries has, in the absence of overriding superpower…
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Democracy in Interwar Europe: Systematic Matching and Contrasting of Cases for “Small N” Analysis
Comparative political analysis at the macrolevel of political systems can reduce the inevitably high complexity of such comparisons by the systematic matching or contrasting of cases, depending on the particular problem. Such “most similar systems” or “most different systems” designs, in Przeworski and Teune's terminology, thus constitute one of the major ways out of the usual “small N—many variables” dilemma. This article proposes a detailed and…
Conditions of Democracy in Interwar Europe: A Boolean Test of Major Hypotheses
L'analyse des conditions d'emergence et de maintien de systemes politiques democratiques est l'un des themes centraux de la science politique. La periode de l'entre-deux guerres en Europe fournit un cadre unique d'etude comparative des chances et des echecs de la democratie, parce que les exemples a considerer partagent un grand nombre de caracteristiques socio-economiques, politico-culturelles communes. La periode consideree est clairement delim…
Comparing political systems: Establishing similarities and dissimilarities
Comparative political analysis at the macro‐level of political systems can reduce the inevitably high complexity of such comparisons by the systematic matching or contrasting of cases, depending on the particular problem. Such ‘most similar systems’ or ‘most different systems’ designs, in Przeworski & Teune's terminology, thus constitute one of the major ways out of the usual ‘small N—many variables’ dilemma. This paper proposes a detailed and co…
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Democracy in Interwar Europe: Systematic Matching and Contrasting of Cases for “Small N” Analysis
Comparative political analysis at the macrolevel of political systems can reduce the inevitably high complexity of such comparisons by the systematic matching or contrasting of cases, depending on the particular problem. Such “most similar systems” or “most different systems” designs, in Przeworski and Teune's terminology, thus constitute one of the major ways out of the usual “small N—many variables” dilemma. This article proposes a detailed and…
African Political Systems: Typology and Performance
This article proposes an historically oriented typology of contemporary African political systems: the polyarchic, the socialist, the civil-authoritarian, and the praetorian. Their performance after independence is evaluated then in terms of Gross National Product (GNP) per capita growth, improvements in the “physical quality of life,” indicators of “dependence,” and normative standards. Closer analysis reveals a differentiated pattern that contr…
The quality of democracies in Europe as measured by current indicators of democratization and good governance
Despite the steady wave of democratization in recent decades, the progress towards and the levels of democracy vary considerably across Europe. Many studies have been conducted to provide a differentiated outlook at the quality of democracy in each individual country; however, very few attempts have been made to aid the aggregation of discrete information in order to provide some comparative yardsticks for the evaluation of continuing development…
Determinants of democratic successes and failures in Africa
This article, first, identifies democratic, authoritarian and ‘praetorian’ political system types in Africa on the basis of major current indicators. It then systematically tests a broad variety of hypotheses concerning the historical, social‐structural, socio‐economic, political and institutional determinants and performance characteristics of these system types. A macro‐quantitative synopsis attempts to identify the most ‘parsimonious’ overall …
Modes and Meaning of Political Participation in Kenya
Elements of Consociational Democracy in Kenya
This paper attempts to apply and test some of the major propositions advanced by the ‘consociational school’ of democratic theory to the case of a Third World country, Kenya. These propositions concern both the specific, highly fragmented ‘plural’ social bases of politics and particular institutional arrangements (such as a ‘grand coalition’, proportional representation, etc.), Kenya is shown to be an interesting, though somewhat ‘deviant’, case …
Indicators of Democracy and Good Governance as Measures of the Quality of Democracy in Africa: A Critical Appraisal
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Democracy in Inter-War Europe: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis
1. Introduction In view of the economic and political crises which are now affecting many parts of the world there has been renewed interest in the question of how major countries and regions previously faced such challenges in order to learn as much as possible from these experiences. The end of the Cold War and the wave of democratization it entailed in many Eastern European and Third World countries has, in the absence of overriding superpower…
The Emergence of Democracy: Forces and Counter-forces
Capitalism and democracy have transformed the world, but not in a harmonious way. This article provides a broad overview of the major driving forces of democracy, its relationship with ongoing socioeconomic developments and some of the countervailing factors. It points to the inherently conflictive nature of democratic procedures and decision-making, but also emphasizes the potentially universal implications of basic democratic values. Against th…
Political Science in Europe: Diversity, excellence, relevance
Political science in Europe has been shaped by a great variety of national academic traditions and university systems, its relationship to neighbouring disciplines, and contending meta-theoretical approaches. In addition, since World War II, major external influences have come mainly from the US. Against this background, the special role of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is briefly discussed and evaluated. The conclusions p…
Modes and Meaning of Political Participation in Kenya
Modes and Meaning of Political Participation in Kenya
African Political Systems: Typology and Performance
This article proposes an historically oriented typology of contemporary African political systems: the polyarchic, the socialist, the civil-authoritarian, and the praetorian. Their performance after independence is evaluated then in terms of Gross National Product (GNP) per capita growth, improvements in the “physical quality of life,” indicators of “dependence,” and normative standards. Closer analysis reveals a differentiated pattern that contr…
Elements of Consociational Democracy in Kenya
This paper attempts to apply and test some of the major propositions advanced by the ‘consociational school’ of democratic theory to the case of a Third World country, Kenya. These propositions concern both the specific, highly fragmented ‘plural’ social bases of politics and particular institutional arrangements (such as a ‘grand coalition’, proportional representation, etc.), Kenya is shown to be an interesting, though somewhat ‘deviant’, case …
Politische Kultur in Deutschland: Bilanz und Perspektiven der Forschung
Der Ausdruek ist zu einem festen Begriff und zu einem Symbol in der politisehen Spraehe der Bundesrepublik geworden. Die hiermit verbundene Viel- deutigkeit ist fiir eine wissensehaftliehe Verwendung nieht immer forderlieh. Anderer- seits hat die Popularitat des Begriffes und seine meist moraliseh intendierte Besetzung in der politisehen Spraehe der Gegenwart aueh Vorteile. Denn sowohl im normativen Gebraueh als aueh zur Besehreibung und Analyse …
Politische Stabilität und Entwicklung. Eine vergleichende Analyse der Bestimmungsfaktoren und Interaktionsmuster in Kenia, Tansania und Uganda
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 527 - 530
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Political Stability and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Political Culture in Germany: A Paradigmatic Case
Germany, more than most other countries, has had a dramatic and (for many Germans and non-Germans alike) traumatic history, in particular during the first half of this century. For a keen but wellmeaning observer like Sebastian Haffner it exhibited a 'Jekyll and Hyde'-like quality (Haffner 1940; see also Haffner 1987): on the one hand, the two world wars and, in particular, the atrocities of the National Socialists have terrified the world and, o…
Conditions of Democracy in Interwar Europe: A Boolean Test of Major Hypotheses
L'analyse des conditions d'emergence et de maintien de systemes politiques democratiques est l'un des themes centraux de la science politique. La periode de l'entre-deux guerres en Europe fournit un cadre unique d'etude comparative des chances et des echecs de la democratie, parce que les exemples a considerer partagent un grand nombre de caracteristiques socio-economiques, politico-culturelles communes. La periode consideree est clairement delim…
Comparing political systems: Establishing similarities and dissimilarities
Comparative political analysis at the macro‐level of political systems can reduce the inevitably high complexity of such comparisons by the systematic matching or contrasting of cases, depending on the particular problem. Such ‘most similar systems’ or ‘most different systems’ designs, in Przeworski & Teune's terminology, thus constitute one of the major ways out of the usual ‘small N—many variables’ dilemma. This paper proposes a detailed and co…
Demokratisierung in Afrika - Bedingungen und Perspektiven
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 287 - 308
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Democracy in Interwar Europe: Systematic Matching and Contrasting of Cases for “Small N” Analysis
Comparative political analysis at the macrolevel of political systems can reduce the inevitably high complexity of such comparisons by the systematic matching or contrasting of cases, depending on the particular problem. Such “most similar systems” or “most different systems” designs, in Przeworski and Teune's terminology, thus constitute one of the major ways out of the usual “small N—many variables” dilemma. This article proposes a detailed and…
Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Democracy in Inter-War Europe: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis
1. Introduction In view of the economic and political crises which are now affecting many parts of the world there has been renewed interest in the question of how major countries and regions previously faced such challenges in order to learn as much as possible from these experiences. The end of the Cold War and the wave of democratization it entailed in many Eastern European and Third World countries has, in the absence of overriding superpower…
Conditions of democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic case studies
List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Preface D.Berg-Schlosser & J.Mitchell Foreword J.Linz Notes on the Contributors Introduction D.Berg-Schlosser & J.Mitchell Austria: From Compromise to Authoritarianism P.Gerlich & D.Campbell Belgium: Crisis and Compromise G.De Meur & D.Berg-Schlosser Czechoslovakia: External Crisis and Internal Compromise J.Bradley Estonia: Crisis and 'Pre-Emptive' Authoritarianism T.Varrak Finland: From Conflict to Com…
Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919–39
Why did democracy survive in some European countries between the wars while fascism or authoritarianism emerged elsewhere? This innovative study approaches this question through the comparative analys
Authoritarianism and democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Comparative analyses
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface PART I Introduction: D.Berg-Schlosser PART II: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND The Heritage of the First World War J.Holzer Building Nations and Crafting Democracies M.Thompson Social Structural Dynamics J.D.Stephens & G.Kummel Sources of Authoritarianism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe S.Fischer-Galati PART III: THE SOCIAL ARENA: MAJOR FORCES AND ACTORS Organized Interests and …
Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919–39: Comparative Analyses
Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39 offers a comprehensive analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe. The contributors explore factors such as the historical
Comment on Welzel, Inglehart & Klingemann's ‘The theory of human development: A cross‐cultural analysis’
The quality of democracies in Europe as measured by current indicators of democratization and good governance
Despite the steady wave of democratization in recent decades, the progress towards and the levels of democracy vary considerably across Europe. Many studies have been conducted to provide a differentiated outlook at the quality of democracy in each individual country; however, very few attempts have been made to aid the aggregation of discrete information in order to provide some comparative yardsticks for the evaluation of continuing development…
Indicators of Democracy and Good Governance as Measures of the Quality of Democracy in Africa: A Critical Appraisal
Political Science in Europe: Diversity, excellence, relevance
Political science in Europe has been shaped by a great variety of national academic traditions and university systems, its relationship to neighbouring disciplines, and contending meta-theoretical approaches. In addition, since World War II, major external influences have come mainly from the US. Against this background, the special role of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is briefly discussed and evaluated. The conclusions p…
Determinants of democratic successes and failures in Africa
This article, first, identifies democratic, authoritarian and ‘praetorian’ political system types in Africa on the basis of major current indicators. It then systematically tests a broad variety of hypotheses concerning the historical, social‐structural, socio‐economic, political and institutional determinants and performance characteristics of these system types. A macro‐quantitative synopsis attempts to identify the most ‘parsimonious’ overall …
Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach
Locate QCA as an approach and grasp its key epistemological foundations • Understand how and why QCA is “case oriented” and how one should use QCA to engage in a dialogue between cases and theories • Understand the specific conception of causality conveyed in QCA— multiple conjunctural causation—and its practical consequences • Reflect on the usefulness of QCA to reach a certain level of generalization beyond the observed cases • Grasp key common…
Political science (30 works) · Politics (27 works) · Law (25 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Democracy (18 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research (12 works)