Dr. Oliver D'Antonio

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Scientific focus

My research focuses on the areas of party and association research, political culture research and the history of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as social and municipal policy research.

Professional career

  • 2014-2018
    Research assistant at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel
  • 2010-2014
    Research assistant at the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research
  • 2009-2010
    Research assistant in the project "Where is the underclass in modern civil society?", funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
  • 2008-2009
    Research assistant in the Working Group on Political Parties and Political Culture Research, Georg-August-University Göttingen
  • 2004-2005
    Student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Christian Fenner, University of Leipzig
  • 2001-2007
    Studied political science, sociology and journalism in Leipzig and Grenoble
  • 1999-2001
    Apprenticeship as a bank clerk at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
  • 1998
    High school diploma at Lessing-Gymnasium in Winnenden

Publications: Monographs

  • Between town hall, milieu and network. On the local anchoring of political parties, Wiesbaden 2014.
  • The CDU. Entstehung und Verfall christdemokratischer Geschlossenheit, Baden-Baden 2011, 2nd, expanded and revised edition 2014 (with Franz Walter and Christian Werwath).

Publications: Articles

  • Die CDU in Niedersachsen, in: Nentwig, Teresa / Werwath, Christian (eds.): Politik und Regieren in Niedersachsen, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 135-158.
  • Kommunen und kommunale Spitzenverbände in Hessen, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang / Neumann, Arijana (eds.): Politik und Regieren in Hessen, Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 133-156. (With Lena Nothacker)
  • Kassel 4.0: Nine theses for the learning city, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang (ed.): Kassel 4.0 - Stadt der Transformationen, Marburg 2015, pp. 213-225. (With Wolfgang Schroeder)
  • The end of the ice age. The path to the first passport agreement of 1963/64, in: Lorenz, Robert / Walter, Franz (eds.): 1964 - das Jahr, mit dem "68" begann, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 231-246.
  • Renewal from below? - On the chances of revitalizing social anchoring through the party base, in: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung, H. 19, 2014, pp. 108-114.
  • More myth than program - the three days of Godesberg, in: Walter, Franz / Butzlaff, Felix (eds.): Mythen, Ikonen, Märtyrer. Social democratic stories, Berlin 2013, pp. 118-126.
  • The CDU: Inner-party decision-making between committee work and gray area, in: Korte, Karl-Rudolf / Treibel, Jan (eds.). How do parties decide? Processes of inner-party decision-making in Germany, ZPol Sonderband 2012, pp. 35-61 (with Christian Werwath).
  • Back to the networks! Why parties need to form local alliances, in: INDES, vol. 1 (2012) p. 1, pp. 80-86.
  • The crisis of the catch-all strategy, in: Powision. New Spaces for Politics, No. 10, Vol. 6 (2011), H. 1.
  • Departure to the metropolis. Wie sich durch die Hauptstadtdebatte die Republik veränderte, in: Deutsch-land Archiv, vol. 44 (2011) special issue 50 Jahre Mauerbau; pp. 110-115.
  • Dispensable people in civil society? The socially disadvantaged and commitment, in: Johanna Klatt / Franz Walter: Entbehrliche der Bürgergesellschaft? Sozial Benachteiligte und Engagement, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 35-222 (with David Bebnowski, Ivonne Kroll, Michael Lühmann, Felix M. Steiner and Christian Woltering).
  • Last stand of the old left. The "Erfurt Declaration", in: Johanna Klatt / Robert Lorenz (eds.): Manifests. Geschichte und Gegenwart des politischen Appells, Bielefeld 2011, pp. 347-376.
  • Die Graue Koalition - Wie Deutschlands Volksparteien altern, in: Butzlaff, Felix / Harm, Stine / Walter, Franz (eds.): Patt oder Gezeitenwechsel? Germany 2009, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 237-266 (with Bettina Munimus).
  • A lurching course into the Berlin Republic. How party democracy lost its stability, in: Vorgänge, Vol. 48 (2009) H. 3, pp. 118-128.

Publications: Other

  • Metropolitan crisis - warning sign or myth? Series: The Merkel-CDU, in: Blog of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research, 24.11.2015.
  • Max Weber's People's Party Machine, in: Blog of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research, 06.01.2015.
  • Is the Union still a people's party? Regina Görner in discourse with Oliver D'Antonio, in: CIVIS mit Sonde, H. 01, 2014, pp. 28-39.
  • Liberaler Aufbruch Ost, in: INDES, Vol. 2, H. 2, 2013, pp. 126-128.
  • Tu miser Austria!, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Democracies at the Turning Point. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2012, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 260-262.
  • Autumn in Germany, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Democracies at the Turning Point. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2012, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 285-288.
  • The president, the BILD and the end of a biotope, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Democracies at the turning point. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2012, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 347-349.
  • Expeditionsleiter ins Reich der Geschichte, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Demokratien am Wendepunkt. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2012, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 388-390.
  • Functional party seeks function, in: Blog of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research, 19.09.2013.
  • From the people's party to the voters' party, in: The European, 28.03.2012.
  • Small parties on the rise?, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Gesellschaftliche Verunsicherung und politischer Protest. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2011, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 67-69.
  • Bremen before the landslide, in: Hensel, et al. (eds.): Gesellschaftliche Verunsicherung und politischer Protest. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2011, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 137-139.
  • Schwarz-grüner Mikrokosmos, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Gesellschaftliche Verunsicherung und politischer Protest. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2011, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 256-258.
  • Das Ende der Solidarität, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Gesellschaftliche Verunsicherung und politischer Protest. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2011, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 271-273.
  • The conserved people's party, in Cicero online, 19.11.2011.
  • Ernüchternde Bilanz, in: Blog des Göttinger Instituts für Demokratieforschung, 19.03.2011.
  • Politische Parteien in Theorie und Geschichte, in: Hensel, Alexander et al. (eds.): Parteien, Demokratie und gesellschaftliche Kritik. Yearbook of the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research 2010, Stuttgart 2011, pp. 47-48.

Past courses

Winter semester 2014/15

Summer semester 2014

  • B. A. seminar "Die CDU: Aufstieg und Krise einer Volkspartei" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Winter semester 2013/14

  • B. A. seminar "Lenin meets LISA. Who or what is Die LINKE?" (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

Summer semester 2013

  • M. A. seminar "Theory history of party research" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Winter semester 2012/13

  • B. A. seminar "The CDU: Rise and Crisis of a Popular Party" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Summer semester 2012

  • M. A. seminar "From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Summer semester 2011

  • M. A. seminar "From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Winter semester 2010/11

  • B. A. seminar "From the Casino to the Professional Election Party" (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Summer semester 2009

  • B. A. Seminar "Theories and History of Party Research" (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

Summer semester 2008

  • Advanced seminar "The Future of Trade Unions" (University of Leipzig)

Summer semester 2005

  • Tutorial for the lecture "History and Structure of the German Party System"

Summer semester 2004

  • Tutorial for the lecture "History and Structure of the German Party System"

Lectures

  • Modernization tendencies and inner-party contradictions in the Union parties and changes in their industrial policy, as part of the party symposium "Alles fließt... Changes in the world of work and the parties' reactions to them" organized by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung's discussion group on parties and social movements, Berlin 19.11.2015.
  • City, country, party - new asymmetries in party competition? Lecture as part of the panel "Parties under competitive pressure" of the AK Parteienforschung at the 26th Scientific Congress of the DVPW, "Vorsicht Sicherheit!", Duisburg, 25.09.2015.
  • "Partizipation in der Grauzone - formale und informelle Optionen der kommunalpolitischen Beteiligung" as part of the qualification series "Politische Bildung mit bildungsbenachteiligten Jugendlichen", of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Reinhausen near Göttingen, October 9, 2013.
  • "Parties and local networking. Ein Diskussionsvorschlag zur Erneuerung lokaler Politik und lokaler Parteiorganisationen" at the annual conference of the DVPW working group on local political research 2013, "Vision Stadt: Ort demokratischer und sozialer Innovation", Münster, 11 July 2013.
  • "Political parties and local anchoring" at the fourth Düsseldorf Graduate Conference on Party Studies (DGKP), Düsseldorf, February 9, 2013.