Hubertus Buchstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 871765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hubertus Buchstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hubertus |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchstein |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHSTEIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Greifswald |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 23 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Carl Schmitts Rache
Seit 2010 bietet die ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie der wissenschaftlichen Community der Politischen Theorie sowie ihrer verwandten Fächer sowohl klassische Abhandlungen als auch innovative Serviceangebote
Carl Schmitts Rache (Online First)
Carl Schmitt’s Revenge—the Context of a Newly Discovered Publication by Schmitt
The recent discovery of yet another (small) publication by Schmitt is more than just an interesting fact by itself for ardent Schmitt scholars. Including previously unknown archival material, the discovery sheds new light on three contexts of Schmitt’s relationship to his former favorite student Otto Kirchheimer: First, on the break-up of their personal contact as a consequence of George Schwab’s failed attempt to receive a PhD grade at Columbia …
Interdisciplinary materialism and the task of critical institutionalism
My first encounter with Horkheimer's seminal 1931 speech "The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research" dates back to 1981 when I was struggling as a young student to read the final chapters of Jürgen Habermas's just published Theory of Communicative Action. Habermas made a strong case for Horkheimer's program of interdisciplinary materialism in his book. He reconstructed Horkheimer's original progr…
Being a master of metaphors
In his political interventions, Jürgen Habermas is a first-class rhetorician. His writing style is eloquent, polemical, rich in aperçus and metaphors, and often affective, especially angry (see Möllers, 2021, p. 85). But there are also many metaphors in his contributions to philosophy, social theory, and political theory in which he clearly restrains himself rhetorically. Metaphors appear at crucial points in his theory formation. Formulations li…
The Institute for Social Research at 100
Postpopulismus und Demokratie in den USA
Die amerikanische Demokratie tritt nach der Wahl Joseph Bidens zum Präsidenten in das interessante Stadium des Postpopulismus. Die Chancen, dass die gesellschaftspolitischen Ursachen des Rechtspopulismus in Bidens Regierungszeit beseitigt werden können sind angesichts der verfassungsbedingten Restriktionen allerdings gering. Die Gefahr, dass es in einigen Jahren zu einem erneuten, aber diesmal erfolgreichen Versuch einer Subversion der liberalen …
The Godfather of Left-Schmittianism? Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt after 1945
In the vast secondary literature on Carl Schmitt as well as on the Frankfurt School, the political and legal thinker Otto Kirchheimer is described as a forerunner of contemporary Left-Schmittianism. This view is sometimes expanded in the literature to the personal relationship between Schmitt and Kirchheimer after 1945 as well. A closer look at Kirchheimer’s late work, at his unpublished correspondence with Schmitt, and at additional unpublished …
Lottocracy and deliberative accountability
The comment on Cristina Lafont’s book includes two main points. (1) Minipublics do not necessarily stand in opposition to political theories that justify electoral democracy and participatory conceptions of deliberative democracy. In contrast to such a view, I argue that minipublics should be combined with electoral and participatory forms of democracy. (2) A deliberative concept of accountability may overcome some of the shortcomings of the trad…
[9.] [Rezension: ] Joseph H. Kaiser: Die Repräsentation organisierter Interessen[1956]
[19.] German Democracy in the 1950s[1961]
[15.] France from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic[1958]
[7.] Notes on the Political Scene in Western Germany[1954]
Otto Kirchheimer - Gesammelte Schriften: Band 5: Politische Systeme im Nachkriegseuropa
The fifth volume in this six-volume collection of Otto Kirchheimer’s (1905–1965) works is entitled Politische Systeme im Nachkriegseuropa (Political Systems in post-war Europe) and contains 34 works by Kirchheimer, published between 1950 and 1967, on changes to political orders in modern industrial societies. Geographically, these studies focus not only on the Federal Republic of Germany but also on developments in other Western European democrac…
[1.] The Composition of the German Bundestag, 1950[1950]
Nachruf auf Rainer Schmalz-Bruns
Das Werk von Otto Kirchheimer und seine Gegenwartsbedeutung. Ein Interview mit Hubertus Buchstein zum Stand der Kirchheimer-Edition
Leseprobe ----- Bibliographie: König, Helmut/Buchstein, Hubertus: Das Werk von Otto Kirchheimer und seine Gegenwartsbedeutung. Ein Interview mit Hubertus Buchstein zum Stand der Kirchheimer-Edition, ZPTh – Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 2-2019, S. 255-270. https://doi.org/10.3224/zpth.v10i2.06
Otto Kirchheimer and the Frankfurt School: Failed Collaborations in the Search for a Critical Theory of Politics
This article describes debates among members of the Frankfurt School during their years in exile in the United States about the status of political institutions within their analytic frameworks. The cited unpublished material in this article sheds new light on the complicated relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and the core of the Frankfurt School group on this issue. Kirchheimer's biographical episode with the group exemplifies both the failur…
[1.] Anmerkungen zur Kriminalstatistik des Nachkriegsfrankreichs [1936]
[4.] Sozialstruktur und Strafvollzug[1939]
Otto Kirchheimer - Gesammelte Schriften: Band 3: Kriminologische Schriften
The third of the six-volume publication on Otto Kirchheimer (1905–1965) collates all his important works on the development of criminal law, the prison system and criminology in order to facilitate comparative analysis of them. It contains a new edition of his monograph ‘Sozialstruktur und Strafvollzug’ (Punishment and Social Structure), which he wrote with Georg Rusche at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, which was published in 193…
Democracy and lottery: Revisited
In the Italian republic of Genoa the members of the city council were selected by random selection from the 12th century on. Over time, the gambling-crazed residents of the city began to bet on who would win a seat and called this a lottery. A few decades later, this developed into the numbers games that have remained popular to this day. From Italy the original Old Germanic word11 Meaning fortune telling and fate in Old Germanic. slowly found it…
Otto Kirchheimer: Capitalist State, Political Parties and Political Justice
Auf dem Weg zur Postwachstumsgesellschaft – Von der Resonanztheorie zur aleatorischen Demokratie
Kultur und Praxis der Wahlen
Bytes that Bite: The Internet and Deliberative Democracy
Reviving Randomness for Political Rationality: Elements of a Theory of Aleatory Democracy
Randomizing Europe: The lottery as a decision-making procedure for policy creation in the EU
In this paper we argue for the introduction of lotteries as a decision-making procedure for the creation of policy in modern democracies. Our suggestions are focused on the political system of the European Union. We start our line of argument by bringing to readers' attention the recent renaissance of the lottery in democratic practices and political theory. Next we follow the rich body of literature on policy-making in the European Union and ide…
The Institute for Social Research at 100
Democracy and lottery: Revisited
In the Italian republic of Genoa the members of the city council were selected by random selection from the 12th century on. Over time, the gambling-crazed residents of the city began to bet on who would win a seat and called this a lottery. A few decades later, this developed into the numbers games that have remained popular to this day. From Italy the original Old Germanic word11 Meaning fortune telling and fate in Old Germanic. slowly found it…
Redescribing Democracy
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, 'redescription' refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Auf dem Weg zur Postwachstumsgesellschaft – Von der Resonanztheorie zur aleatorischen Demokratie
Debating representative democracy
Otto Kirchheimer and the Frankfurt School: Failed Collaborations in the Search for a Critical Theory of Politics
This article describes debates among members of the Frankfurt School during their years in exile in the United States about the status of political institutions within their analytic frameworks. The cited unpublished material in this article sheds new light on the complicated relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and the core of the Frankfurt School group on this issue. Kirchheimer's biographical episode with the group exemplifies both the failur…
Wählen, Losen und politische Gerechtigkeit – Plädoyer für einen demokratischdeliberativen pouvoir neutre
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 395 - 405
From critical theory to political science: A.R.L. Gurland's project of critical political science in postwar Germany
Jürgen Habermas and critical policy studies
Démocratie et secret du vote. La controverse entre scrutin public et vote secret dans les luttes électorales en Prusse
Democracy and secret of voting. The controverses on public and secret votes during elections in Prussia Hubertus Buchstein The article is a historical sociology contribution about voting practices in Germany, which is an uncommon theme in the German political science. The paper deals with the 19th century struggles on publicity and secrecy of the vote. The controversy of the last third of the 19th century at the Deputy Chamber of Prussia offers t…
Shadows of the Wall ‐ the Postcommunist Pds and Perspectives of the Democratic Left In Germany1: Perspectives of the Democratic Left in Germany
After the Revolution: Political Science in East Germany
I n some ways the East German revolution of November 1989 revealed the failure of German political science, both East and West.East German political scientists were neither catalysts of nor participants in the protest movement.West German political scientists failed to foresee the crises and breakdown of the regime or even give an adequate analysis of the starting point of German unification.Despite tremendous difficulties the two German states a…
Shadows of the Wall ‐ the Postcommunist Pds and Perspectives of the Democratic Left In Germany1: Perspectives of the Democratic Left in Germany
Die Zumutungen der Demokratie. Von der normativen Theorie des Bürgers zur institutionell vermittelten Präferenzkompetenz
Eine normative Theorie des Bürgers in der Demokratie sollte Antworten auf mindestens drei Fragen geben1. Zum einen soll sie den Kreis derer, die in den Genuß des Bürgerstatus kommen sollen, sowie die inhaltliche Auslegung der zugestandenen Bürgerrechte benennen können. Dann soll sie die Sorte von Bürgern beschreiben können, der es bedarf, damit sich die Demokratie als politisches System erhalten kann. Schließlich soll sie Auskunft geben können üb…
Bytes that Bite: The Internet and Deliberative Democracy
Démocratie et secret du vote. La controverse entre scrutin public et vote secret dans les luttes électorales en Prusse
Democracy and secret of voting. The controverses on public and secret votes during elections in Prussia Hubertus Buchstein The article is a historical sociology contribution about voting practices in Germany, which is an uncommon theme in the German political science. The paper deals with the 19th century struggles on publicity and secrecy of the vote. The controversy of the last third of the 19th century at the Deputy Chamber of Prussia offers t…
Kann das Internet Engagement fördern?
Insgesamt lassen sich vier Grundformen der Nutzung des Internet für politische Zwecke unterscheiden.1
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Gretchenfrage' ohne klare Antwort - Ernst Fraenkels politikwissenschaftliche Gemeinwohlkonzeption
EinleitungVor gut einem Jahrzehnt bemängelte Fritz W. Scharpf, daß die ,,Politikwissenschaft vor den Aporien des Gemeinwohlbegriffs weitgehend kapituliert [
Democracy’s Secret: Carl Schmitt and the German Critique of Secret Voting
Debate: Séparation des pouvoirs et indépendance du judiciaire: une problematique en transformation
A Heroic Reconciliation of Freedom and Power: On the Tension between Democratic and Social Theory in the Late Work of Franz L. Neumann
Political Science and Democratic Culture: Ernst Fraenkel's Studies of American Democracy
Reflecting on his academic exile in the United States, the Germanpolitical scientist Franz L. Neumann emphasized the cross-fertilizationof ideas as a result of the confrontation of different scientific andpolitical cultures.1 According to Neumann, the migration of hundredsof European academics to the United States led to a growinginternationalization of the social sciences and a two-way learningprocess. The Europeans became accustomed to the prac…
The Dynamics of Conceptual Change
Several of the contributions in this volume of Redescriptions refer to conceptual changes in the political vocabulary.The articles address the semantic changes of certain key political terms: Victoria Crespo's article on the political language in Spanish America at the beginning of the 19th century focuses on 'tyranny' and 'dictatorship', Kia Lindroos' piece on Walter Benjamin discusses 'violence' and 'moment', and 'representation' is the topic o…
After Athens - The Genealogy of Modern Democracy
Let us just for matters of illustration take a brief look at the history of political terms from a “Darwinian” perspective. In doing so, the fact that the word democracy has ‘survived’ in the long evolution of the political vocabulary until today is rather surprising. Just compare the amazing career of the Greek demokratia with some of its forgotten terminological brothers and sisters like ochlokratia and timokratia; other terms like oligarchia, …
Politische Theorie und Politikwissenschaft
Redescribing Democracy
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, 'redescription' refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Randomizing Europe: The lottery as a decision-making procedure for policy creation in the EU
In this paper we argue for the introduction of lotteries as a decision-making procedure for the creation of policy in modern democracies. Our suggestions are focused on the political system of the European Union. We start our line of argument by bringing to readers' attention the recent renaissance of the lottery in democratic practices and political theory. Next we follow the rich body of literature on policy-making in the European Union and ide…
From critical theory to political science: A.R.L. Gurland's project of critical political science in postwar Germany
Jürgen Habermas and critical policy studies
Reviving Randomness for Political Rationality: Elements of a Theory of Aleatory Democracy
Demokratiepolitik
Die bundesdeutschen Politikwissenschaftler verstanden sich in der Gründungsphase des Faches als Teil eines politischen Projektes, das auf die Etablierung und Stärkung von Demokratie zielte. In den theoriebiographischen Studien dieses Bandes werden unterschiedliche Vorstellungen verschiedener Gründungsväter, wie z.B. Ernst Fraenkel, Otto Suhr, Franz L. Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Martin Draths oder Peter C. Ludz zum inhaltlichen und konzeptionellen…
Wählen, Losen und politische Gerechtigkeit – Plädoyer für einen demokratischdeliberativen pouvoir neutre
ZPol Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , Seite 395 - 405
Die Versprechen der Demokratie: 25. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft
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Ausgebürgert und doch angebräunt
Bereits die 1. Auflage dieser wegweisenden Studie räumte vor 20 Jahren auf mit einer Legende der deutschen Politikwissenschaft: Keineswegs war die Deutsche Hochschule für Politik (Berlin) während der Weimarer Republik ein ausschließlich republikanisches Unternehmen, noch war Politologie eine reine Demokratiewissenschaft. So wenig wie die Soziologie, die Psychologie oder die Geschichtswissenschaft blieb das Fach vor und nach 1933 immun gegen die a…
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