Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz

Vita

Klaus H. Goetz has held the Chair of Political Systems and European Integration at the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich since 1 April 2013. Previously, he held the chair of “Politics and Governance in Germany and Europe” at the University of Potsdam, beginning in 2006.

Klaus H. Goetz studied Italian and political science in Tübingen, at the University of Massachusetts and at the London School of Economics (LSE). After completing his doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford University, he taught and researched there, as well as at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. Between 1992 and 2006 he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at the Department of Government of the LSE. He has held various visiting professorships at Sciences Po Bordeaux, the European Forum of the Hebrew University, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Tokyo, and Humboldt University in Berlin.

Klaus H. Goetz has been a leader and cooperation partner in various international research projects, including on issues of the temporality of the European Union (together with J.-H. Meyer Sahling) and on the control of legislation by governments in Central Eastern Europe (together with R. Zubek). Currently, he is conducting research in the ERC funded SYNCPOL project, analysing the challenges associated with European Policy-Making with regard to how time plays a significant role in the distribution of power in Europe’s multi-level system. Prof. Goetz is also working on the ForGeRex project, researching Right-Wing extremism and racism – framing and policy making in Bavaria. Since 2000, Klaus H. Goetz has been a co-editor of the journal ‘West European Politics’ and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) since 2012. He was the founding speaker of the DFG Research Training Group WIPCAD at the University of Potsdam.