Bettina Petersohn
Vita
since 04/2012 research associate Center of Excellence „Cultural Foundations of Social Integration”
03/2012 Dissertation submitted, TU Darmstadt
10/2011-03/2012 Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science, TU Darmstadt
09/2008-08/2011 Junior Researcher, Research project “Patterns of constitutional reform concerning federal structures” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), TU Darmstadt (until Sep 2010 at the Distance Learning University in Hagen)
09/2007-08/2008 Lecturer at the Institute for Canadian Studies/Department of Political Science, University of Augsburg
10/2006-07/2007 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
1999-2005 Master of Arts, Political Science (main subject), Economics, Communications, University of Augsburg
Research areas
Comparative Federalism, Multinational Democracies, Accommodating diversity, Multiculturalism, Constitutional Politics
Function within the Center
Senior Researcher, Research project “Dynamics of Group Conflicts in multinational multi-level systems – integration or accommodation?”
Abstract
Selected Publications
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
Nathalie Behnke, Bettina Petersohn, Andrea Fischer-Hotzel and Dominic Heinz (2011): Measuring Success of Constitutional Reforms: Evidence from territorial reforms in eight Western democracies; in: Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 21 (4), 443-473.
Bettina Petersohn (2011): Konfliktakkommodierung bis zur Selbstaufgabe? Stabilität und Dynamik der Verfassungsentwicklung in Belgien; in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Vol. 52 (2), 195-219.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Bettina Petersohn (2012): Constitutional Reform and Federal Dynamics: Causes and Effects; in: Arthur Benz/Jörg Broschek (Hrsg.): Federal Dynamics. Continuity, Change, and Varieties of Federalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, i.E.
Jörg Kemmerzell and Bettina Petersohn (2012): Regional Actors’ Participation in Constitutional reform: Opportunities, Limits, and Risks; in: Arthur Benz/Felix Knüppling (Hrsg.): Federal Constitutional Reforms. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 311-329.
Bettina Petersohn and Rainer-Olaf Schultze (2011): Ziele, Formen und Prozessstrukturen des Verfassungswandels in Mehrebenensystemen; in: Christoph Hönnige/Sascha Kneip/Astrid Lorenz (Hrsg.): Verfassungswandel im Mehrebenensystem. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 41-74.