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GIGA Academic Staff - Erdmann

PD Dr. Gero Erdmann

GIGA Institute of African Affairs

Head of GIGA Berlin-Büro
Friedrichstraße 206/ Zimmerstraße
10969 Berlin

Tel.: 0 30 / 2 50 40 985
Fax: 0 30 / 53 16 7575
Internet: www.giga-hamburg.de/berlin

Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-536
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Gero Erdmann
Foto: Werner Bartsch

Biographical data:

  • Education: Magister Artium in Political Science and History at the University of Freiburg 1973-1981; Master of Arts in Politics, History, Ethnography of Eastern Africa (Swahili) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1982-1983
  • Professional career:
Since June 2012: Privatdozent at the Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg
Since July 2009: Head of GIGA Research Programme 1 („Legitimacy and Efficiency of Political Systems“)
Since 2009: Head of Berlin Office
Since 1999: Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs; responsibilities: democracy and democratization, political parties, civil society, co-operative societies, traditional rule, human rights.
1994-1999: Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr University of Bochum
1986-1994: Research Fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute
1985-1986: Research Fellow at the Economic Research Bureau, University of Dar es Salaam, and at the Co-operative College Nairobi
1981-1985: Free lance journalist

 

Memberships:

  • American Political Science Association
  • Board of Trustees of dvv international – Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association
  • British International Studies Association (BISA)
  • Co-editor and member of editorial board of the journal "Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Comparative Governance and Politics" (ZfVP), VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Co-speaker of the working group "Democracy Studies" of the German Political Science Association (DVPW)
  • German Political Science Association (DVPW)
  • African Studies Association in Germany (VAD)
  • African Studies Association (USA)

 

Teaching:

  • Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg:
    • WS 2004-5: "Problems of Party Research in Africa.: Problems of informality in non-European political parties" (together with Dr. Matthias Basedau)
    • WS 2003-4: "Elections and Electoral Systems in the Third Worldt" (together with Dr. Matthias Basedau)
    • SS 2003: "State and Society in Africa" (together with Dr. Matthias Basedau)

 

Current research:

  • Political parties in Anglophone Africa
  • Hybrid regimes in Africa
  • Neopatrimonialism
  • South Africa as a civilian regional power?

 

Third-party funded projects:

Publications (selection):

  • 2013 (with Matthias Basedau): What Is One-Party Dominance? Conceptualising and Identifying One-Party Dominant Systems in Africa, in: Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink (eds), One-Party Dominance in African Democracies, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 250 pages, $55.00 ISBN: 978-1-58826-869-3 (forthcoming)
  • 2013 (with Sebastian Elischer): Südafrika: historische Lasten, in: Josef Braml, Stefan Mair and Eberhard Sandschneider (eds.), Außenpolitik in der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise, DGAP-Jahrbuch, Band 29, Berlin: DGAP Verlag, 223-231
  • 2013: Neopatrimonialism and Political Regimes, in: Nic Cheeseman, Dave Anderson and Andrea Scheibler (eds.), Routledge Handbook of African Politics, London and New York: Routledge, 59-69 (Flyer)
  • 2012: Neopatrimonialism: concept or metaphor?, in: Andreas Heinrich/Heiko Pleines (eds): Challenges of the Caspian Resource Boom. Domestic elites and policy-making, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 46-57
  • 2012 (with Alexander Stroh and Sebastian Elischer): Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective, GIGA Working Paper No 197, June 2012, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2012 (with Sebastian Elischer): Regionalorganisationen in Afrika – eine Bilanz, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 3/2012, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)
  • 2012 (with Olga Herzog): Die Türkei in Afrika: Im Schatten des Neo-Osmanismus?, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 1/2012, Hamburg: GIGA. (pdf)
  • 2012: Neopatrimonialism: problems of a catch-all concept?, in: Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schröder (eds.): Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats. Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space. London: Ashgate, 43-62 (Flyer)
  • 2011 (with Marianne Kneuer, eds.): Regression of Democracy, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics, Special edition/Sonderheft 1, 2011, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Flyer)
  • 2011: Decline of Democracy: Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Comparative Governance and Politics, Special Issue 1, 21-58
  • 2011 (with Sebastian Elischer and Alexander Stroh): Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?, GIGA Working Paper No 166, May 2011, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2011 (with Matthias Basedau, Jann Lay and Alexander Stroh): Ethnicity and Party Preferences in sub-Saharan Africa, in: Democratization, 18, 2, 462–489
  • 2011: Transition from Democracy. Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy, GIGA Working Paper No 161, March 2011, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2010: Political party assistance and political party research: towards a closer en-counter?, in: Democratization, 17, 6, 1275–1296
  • 2010: Verantwortung oder Interesse? – Die Rolle Südafrikas in der Region, in: Werner Diester and Kristina Weissenbach (eds.), Konsolidierungsprojekt Südafrika. 15 Jahre Post-Apartheid, Baden-Baden: Nomos 207-226
  • 2009: The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems revisited, in: K. Prasanna Rani (ed.), Politics and Democracy. Electoral Reforms, Hyderabad, India: Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, 90-122, also: GIGA Working Paper Nr. 63 (Abstract & full article)
  • 2009: Südafrika: Regionaler Hegemon, Mittel- oder Zivilmacht? in: Jörg Husar, Günther Maihold and Stefan Mair (eds.), Neue Führungsmächte: Partner deutscher Außenpolitik?, Baden-Baden: Nomos (Internationale Politik und Sicherheit, Bd. 62), 99-121
  • 2009: (with Marianne Kneuer): Externe Faktoren der Demokratisierung: Forschungsperspektiven und Entwicklungspotenzial, in: Gero Erdmann and Marianne Kneuer (eds.) Externe Faktoren der Demokratisierung, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 319-338
  • 2008 (with Matthias Basedau): Party systems in Africa: Problems of categorising and explaining party systems, in: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 3, 26, 241-258
  • 2008 (with Christian von Soest): Diktatur in Afrika, GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 8/2008, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)
  • 2007: Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa – Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited, in: Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner, (eds.), Globalisation and Democratisation: Challenges for Political Parties, Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 111-134
  • 2007: Demokratie in Afrika. GIGA Focus Afrika, Nr. 10/2007, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)
  • 2007 (with Manuel Dethloff and Susanne Pickel): Aktuelle Schwerpunkte und Trends der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft: Deutschland, Großbritannien und USA, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 1, 1, 43-65
  • 2007: Kirche und NRO, in: Gunther Hellmann, Siegmar Schmidt and Reinhard Wolf (eds.), Handbuch zur deutschen Außenpolitik, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, 304-312
  • 2007: Ethnicity, Voter Alignment and Political Party Affiliation – an African Case: Zambia; GIGA Working Paper No 45, March 2007, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2007 (with Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler, eds.): Votes, Money and Violence. Political Parties and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa. Uppsala/Scottsville: Nordiska Afrika Institutet/KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007 (Abstract / Inhalt / Rezension)
  • 2007 (with Ulf Engel): Neopatrimonialism Reconsidered: Critical Review and Elaboration of an Elusive Concept, in: Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, 45 (Februar 2007) 1, 95-119, 'most cited' and 'most read' article of the Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, free download: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14662040601135813
  • 2006: Hesitant Bedfellows: The German Stiftungen and Party Aid in Africa, in: Peter Burnell (ed.), Globalising Party-based Democracy, Oxford: Routledge, 2006, 181-199
  • 2004: Party Research: The Western European Bias and the 'African Labyrinth', in: Democratization, 11, 3, (July) 2004, 63-87 (Abstract)

Complete list

 

Lectures (selection):

  • "International cooperation of authoritarian regimes: The conceptual challenge", Conference: Stemming the Wave: International Learning and cooperation of authoritarian regiems, GIGA, Hamburg, 8 November 2012
  • "Parteienförderung und Parteienforschung im internationalen Kontext", Internationale Parteienverbände und die Tätigkeit der parteinahen Stiftungen - ausgehend von Lateinamerika, Universität Rostock, 30 June 2012
  • "Neopatrimonialism: Concept or Metaphor?", Seminar, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 12 April 2012
  • "Ende der 3. Welle der Demokratisierung - oder Rollback der Autokratien?", 4. Nacht des Wissens, GIGA, Hamburg, 29 October 2011
  • "Internationale Demokratieförderung: Zum Forschungsstand", Fachtagung: Aktuelle Herausforderungen in der Demokratieförderung, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 10 May 2011
  • "Neo-patrimonialism: Concept or metaphor?", Resource challenges of the Caspian oil boom. Domestic elites and policy making in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Bremen, 16 December 2010
  • "Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Africa?", 53rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, African Studies Association, San Francisco, 19 November 2010
  • "Dictatorship and Democracy in Historical Perspective" (panel chair and panel organizer), 53rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, African Studies Association, San Francisco, 19 November 2010
  • "Conceptualising and Identifying Dominant Party Systems in Africa", Explaining One-party Dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Warwick, Warwick, 11 September 2010
  • "Autoritarismus und Demokratie in Afrika", Entwicklungspolitische Reihe, Universität Osnabrück, 24 June 2010
  • "Panel 11: Dictatorship and Democracy in Historical Perspective" (Panel Co-chair, panel organizer), Koninuitäten und Brüche: 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika, Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften, Mainz, 9 April 2010
  • "Diktaturen und Demokratien in Afrika: Zum Wandel der entwicklungspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen", vierte Afrika-Ringvorlesung "Afrika als Wirtschaftsmacht: Wachstumspole, Potenziale und Perspektiven", Otto-Suhr-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin; 17 November 2009
  • "Diktatur und Demokratie: Zur Regimeentwicklung in Afrika", Institutskolloquium des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Universität Mainz, Mainz, 30 June 2009
  • "Demokratieentwicklung in Afrika", Forum Afrikanistik, Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig, 28 January 2009, Leipzig
  • „Demokratische Regression: Qualitätsverlust, Hybridisierung und Zusammenbruch von Demokratien“, auf der Tagung Demokratische Regression: Qualitätsverlust, Hybridisierung und Zusammenbruch von Demokratien, des AK „Demokratieforschung“ der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, 16-18 October , 2008
  • (mit Alexander Stroh) “Voters and Political Party Alignment in Anglophone and Francophone Africa Compared”, auf dem Panel, The African Voter: What Do We Really Know?, African Studies Association’s 51st Annual Meeting, Chicago, 13-16 November 2008
  • „Staat und Nation in Afrika“, Studium generale, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 23 January 2008
  • "South Africa-EU: Jointly filling the Sub-Saharan power vacuum?", International conference Europe and New Leading Powers: Towards Partnership in Strategic Policy Areas, organized by Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration e.V. (AEI) in cooperation with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin, 20-21 November 2007

  • "Area Studies, Comparative Politics und Comparative Area Studies – Anmerkungen zum Stand einer Debatte", Tagung der Sektion "Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft" der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) mit dem Thema Stand und Zukunft der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft (zus. mit den Arbeitskreisen "Demokratieforschung", "Empirische Methoden der Politikwissenschaft" und "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen"), Delmenhorst, 9-11 November 2007

  • "What Makes the African Voter Partisan? Ethnicity, voter alignment and political party affiliation in Zambia", 4th European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University of Pisa, Italy, 6-9 September 2007

  • "Factionalism in African Political Parties: The Case of the Third Republic of Zambia", Lecture at the University of Bergen (Norway), Department of Comparative Politics, 4 October 2006

  • "Demokratisierung in Afrika und das Problem hybrider Regime", Ringvorlesung Afrika. Europas verkannter Nachbar, Otto-Suhr Institute, Free University, Berlin, 12 January 2006

 

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Update: April 29, 2013

  
 
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