Dr. Jörg Wischermann

GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
Rothenbaumchaussee 32
20148 Hamburg
Germany

Biographical data:

Freie Universität Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science: Diploma Political Science (1981); Freie Universität Berlin, Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science: Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) Political Science (1991)
Professional career:

1982-1987:	Research Fellow at Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
1988-1990:	Staff member „Citizens Advice Bureau" Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
1991-1994 and 1996-2002:	Senior Research Fellow at Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
2003-2008:	Consultant
Since April 2008:	Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Asian Studies

Lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin, Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science (1995-2000)
Lecturer at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2003/2004)
Teacher/trainer at InWent’s “Training Centre for International Cooperation” „Vorbereitungsstätte für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“ (VEZ) Bad Honnef/Germany (1996-1999; 2003ff)

1982-1987: The Emergence and Development of the Green Party in Germany (funded by German Research Council)
1991-1995: The Relationship between Social Democrats and Greens at Ward, District, and State level in Western Germany (funded by German Research Council)
1997-1999: Relationships between parties at ward, district, and state level in Eastern Germany (funded by German Research Council)
1999-2002: The Relationship between Civic Organizations and Governmental Organizations in the Vietnamese Transition Period (funded by Volkswagenstiftung)
2008-2010: Civil Society Action and Governance in Viet Nam (funded by German Research Council)

2013: Jörg Wischermann, Zivilgesellschaften als Stütze autoritärer Regime. Das Fallbeispiel Vietnam, in: Patrick Köllner and Steffen Kailitz (eds.), Autokratien im Vergleich, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, special issue no. 47, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 324-353

2011: Governance and Civil Society Action in Vietnam: Changing the Rules From Within–Potentials and Limits, in: Asian Politics & Policy, 3, 3, 383-411 (Full text)

2010: Viet Nam vor dem 11. Parteitag: Die aktuelle politische und wirtschaftliche Situation, in: "zur debatte", 7/2010, 36-39 (Full text)

2010: Civil Society Action and Governance in Vietnam: Selected Findings from an Empirical Survey, in: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 29 (2010), 2, pp. 3-40. (Full text)

2006: Societal and Political Change in Vietnam. An Instructive Example for Myanmar/Burma? Introductory and Conceptual Reflections, in: Heinrich Boell Foundation (Ed.): Active Citizens under Political Wraps. Experiences from Myanmar/Burma and Vietnam, Chiang Mai 2006, 9-23 (full article)

2004: Towards good society? Civil society actors, the state, and the business class in Southeast Asia – facilitators of or impediments to a strong, democratic, and fair society? Conceptual reflections, in: Heinrich Boell Foundation (Ed.), Towards good society? Civil society actors, the state, and the business class in Southeast Asia facilitators of or impediments to a strong, democratic, and fair society? Documentation of a workshop of the Heinrich Boell Foundation held October 26-27, 2004, Berlin 2005, 201-252 (full article)

2004: Asian Modernity – Globalization Processes and Their Cultural and Political Localization, in: Heinrich Boell Foundation (Hrsg.): Asian Modernity- Globalization Processes and their Cultural and Political Localization, Berlin 2004, 7-17 (full article)

2003: Vietnam in the era of doi moi: Issue-oriented organizations and their relationship to the government, in: Asian Survey 43:6, 2003, 867-899 (full article)

(together with Nguyen Quang Vinh) The Relationship between civic organizations and governmental organizations in Vietnam: Selected findings of an empirical survey, in: Kerkvliet, B.T./Heng, R./Koh, D. (Eds.), Getting organized in Vietnam – Moving in and around the Socialist State, Singapore 2003 , 185-233 (full article)

Die Entstehung, Entwicklung und Struktur von „Civic Organizations“ und deren Verhältnis zu „Governmental Organizations“ in Vietnam, in: ASIEN“, Nr. 85 (Oktober 2002), 61-83 (The emergence, development and structure of civic organizations and their relationship with governmental organizations in Vietnam) (full article)