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Claus Offe

Claus Offe

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Political Science

D-Index
56
Citations
18494
World Ranking
149
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Claus Offe is affiliated with the Hertie School in Germany and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several main fields and subfields, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, as well as education.

Their research topics cover:

  • Populism, right-wing movements
  • Italian social issues and migration
  • Educational and social studies
  • Political philosophy and ethics

Notable recent publications by Offe include:

  • "Vom Einheitsrausch zum AfD-Kater? Steffen Mau und Claus Offe im Gespräch mit Claudia Czingon über 30 Jahre deutsche Einheit" (2020), published in Leviathan
  • "On the Will of the People: Notes on the Political "Theory" of Populism" (2020), published in Global Perspectives
  • "I cantieri aperti dal 1989" (2020), published in il Mulino
  • "Interview: Claus Offe and Helmut Anheier" (2020), published in Global Perspectives
  • "La politica di fronte alla pandemia: opzioni e conflitti" (2020), published in il Mulino

Frequent publication venues for Offe's work are:

  • Global Perspectives (3 publications)
  • Leviathan (2 publications)
  • il Mulino (2 publications)

Offe has collaborated several times with other researchers, among whom are:

  • Steffen Mau
  • Helmut K. Anheier

Regarding recognition, Offe was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. They are also a member of Academia Europaea since 1989.

Best Publications

  • Contradictions of the welfare state

    Claus Offe

  • Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea

    Jon Elster;Claus Offe;Ulrich K. Preuss

  • Strukturprobleme des kapitalistischen Staates : Aufsätze zur politischen Soziologie

    Claus Offe

  • New Social Movements: Challenging the Boundaries of Institutional Politics (1985)

    Claus Offe

  • The theory of institutional design

    Robert E. Goodin

  • How Can We Trust Our Fellow Citizens

    Unknown

  • Strukturprobleme des kapitalistischen Staates

    Ramón García Cotarelo;Claus Offe

  • Industry and inequality: The achievement principle in work and social status

    Claus Offe

  • Democracy and Trust

    Unknown

  • Political Authority and Class Structures – An Analysis of Late Capitalist Societies

    Unknown

  • Beyond Employment: Time, Work, and the Informal Economy

    Claus Offe;Rolf G. Heinze

  • Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience

    Claus Offe

  • Policy-making in the German federal bureaucracy

    Renate Mayntz;Fritz Wilhelm Scharpf

  • Der Tunnel am Ende des Lichts: Erkundungen der politischen Transformation im Neuen Osten

    Claus Offe

  • Governance: An “Empty Signifier”?

    Claus Offe

  • Partidos politicos y nuevos movimientos sociales

    Claus Offe;Juan Gutiérrez

  • Theses on the Theory of the State

    Claus Offe;Volker Ronge

  • Governance — „Empty signifier“ oder sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsprogramm?

    Claus Offe

  • “Homogeneity” and Constitutional Democracy: Coping with Identity Conflicts through Group Rights

    Claus Offe

  • II. Democracy Against the Welfare State?: Structural Foundations of Neoconservative Political Opportunities

    Claus Offe

  • The European Model of “Social” Capitalism: Can It Survive European Integration?

    Claus Offe

  • "Arbeitsgesellschaft" : Strukturprobleme und Zukunftsperspektiven

    Claus Offe

  • Modernity and the State: East, West

    Claus Offe

  • Some contradictions of the modern welfare state

    Claus Offe

  • Contradictions of the Welfare state

    Ana García de Fanelli;Claus Offe

  • A Decline of Social Capital? The German Case

    Claus Offe;Susanne Fuchs

  • Changing boundaries of the political : essays on the evolving balance between the state and society, public and private in Europe

    Charles S. Maier

  • Reflections on the Institutional Self-Transformation of Movement Politics: A Tentative Stage Model

    Claus Offe

  • Postcommunist Democracy: Legacies and Outcomes@@@Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea@@@Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation@@@Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993

    Jeffrey Kopstein;Jon Elster;Claus Offe;Ulrich K. Preuss

  • Referendum vs. Institutionalized Deliberation: What Democratic Theorists Can Learn from the 2016 Brexit Decision

    Claus Offe

  • Crisis and Innovation of Liberal Democracy: Can Deliberation Be Institutionalised?

    Claus Offe

  • Political Disaffection as an Outcome of Institutional Practices? Some Post-Tocquevillean Speculations

    Claus Offe

  • Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience

    Gil Eyal;Claus Offe

  • Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics

    Philip Resnick;Claus Offe

  • The Capitalist State

    Claus Offe

  • Industry and Inequality

    Frank Longstreth;Claus Offe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Elster
Jon Elster Columbia University
John Keane
John Keane University of Sydney
Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth Columbia University
Klaus von Beyme
Klaus von Beyme Heidelberg University
David Stark
David Stark Columbia University
Herbert Kitschelt
Herbert Kitschelt Duke University
Jacques H. Dreze
Jacques H. Dreze Université Catholique de Louvain
Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman Yale University
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Steven Stack
Steven Stack Wayne State University

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