Anton Pelinka

Anton Pelinka

Anton Pelinka (2006)
Born (1941-10-14) 14 October 1941
Vienna, Austria
Citizenship Austrian
Fields political science and nationalism studies
Institutions Central European University
University of Innsbruck
Jawaharlal Nehru University
University of New Orleans
Stanford University
University of Michigan
Harvard University
Alma mater University of Vienna

Anton Pelinka (born October 14, 1941) is a professor of political science and nationalism studies at the English-speaking Central European University of Budapest. Prior to this appointment, Pelinka was a professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck, one of Austria's largest universities. During his career he has also served as a dean, with his most recent tenure in this role occurring between the years of 2004 an 2006 when he was dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck.[1]

Anton Pelinka was born in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.

Life

After completing studies in jurisprudence at the University of Vienna (Ph.D 1964) as well as Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies, he worked for the weekly Newspaper "Die Furche". His first scientific job was as an assistant. He returned to the Institute for Advanced Studies, whose principal at the time was the Austrian-American historian Ernst Florian Winter. In 1971, he went to Salzburg where he qualified as a university lecturer a year later. Afterwards he went to Germany to teach in Essen and Berlin for two years. In 1975, he got a permanent professorial chair at the University of Innsbruck. He has been a visiting professor at many universities abroad. In 1977 he was at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New-Delhi. In the United States he went to the University of New Orleans in 1981, to the Stanford University in 1997 and to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 2001 to 2002.[2] During this time he also visited the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He was also at Harvard University (1990 to 1991) and the Collegium Budapest (1994) for the purpose of research.

In October 2004, Anton Pelinka was appointed as a full professor at the University of Innsbruck. On January 1, 2005 he was selected as dean of the new Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.[3] He held this position until his move to the Central European University of Budapest.

Pelinka is also head of the Society for Political Education and a regular commentator on the ORF television station, Austria.

In addition to his activities as a scientist he was Austria's representative in a commission against racism and xenophobia in the European Union during the 1990s.[3]

After Pelinka reproached Jörg Haider for playing down National Socialism in the Italian television in 1999, Haider sued him for defamation. In 2001, Anton Pelinka was found not guilty.[4]

Scientific Research and Doctrine

Pelinka published on a very wide range of topics in contemporary political science. OCLC Classify (http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Pelinka%2C+Anton%2C+1941-%22) suggests that his most widely circulated works deal with the shadows of the past in Austria; Social democratic parties in Europe; The Haider phenomenon in Austria; Politics of the lesser evil : leadership, democracy, & Jaruzelski's Poland; and Democracy Indian style: Subhas Chandra Bose and the creation of India's political culture. Also his books on Austria in the New Europe and the Dollfuss/Schuschnigg era in Austria are present at more than 200 international libraries each. Pelinka's main emphases are on democratic theories, political systems and political culture in Austria and the comparative research on parties and associations. He is a leading international expert on topics like right-wing extremism and xenophobia in society.

Work

Anton Pelinka at a news-conference in the Jewish Museum Vienna. Also present from the left is Dr. Ingo Zechner, the former general-secretary Avshalom Hodik of the Jewish Community, Brigitte Bailer-Galanda of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, and the historian Bertrand Perz. The occasion was the founding of a Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).

Pelinka has several publications dealing with topics of interest, especially the Austrian political system.[3] In "Fünf Fragen an drei Generationen. Der Antisemitismus und wir heute" (Five questions to three generations. Anti-semitism and us today), he discusses the historical changes in Austrian society. He is co-editor, with Ruth Wodak, of Austrian journal, "The Haider Phenomenon". It deals with the rise of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) under the chairmanship of Jörg Haider and further the impact of parties and economical or social factors on society.[5]

Bibliography (selection)

Democratical Theories

Political System and Political Culture in Austria

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Günter Bischof; Anton Pelinka; Michael Gehler (2006). Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-4128-0521-X.
  2. ↑ Central European University. "Anton Pelinka - Professor". Robert Sata Department of Political Science. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 Salzburg Global Seminary. "Anton Pelinka - Faculty". Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  4. ↑ Deák, István; et al. (5 October 2000). "Injustice in Austria". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  5. ↑ Sully, Melanie (1997). "The Haider Phenomenon - Book Review". East European Monographs. New York: Columbia University Press.

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