Elmar Rieger

PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY

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Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21, Office: F21/01.23a, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: professur.soziologie(at)googlemail.com
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-2560
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour
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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Sociology with focus on European and Globalization Studies
Faculty Member of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Elmar Rieger is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of comparative macro sociology, the evolution of welfare states, and sociology of international law and international relations.

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// RESEARCH

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Creating Conditions: Verfassungsrecht, Sozialpolitik und "Democracy Promotion" in der Außenpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Rieger, E. (2009): Demokratie und Sozialpolitik in Athen: „Anmerkungen zu einem Grundproblem der Theorie des Wohlfahrtsstaates“. In: Obinger, H. und Rieger, E. (eds.) Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit in entwickelten Demokratien. Herausforderungen Reformen und Perspektiven, Frankfurt am Main und New York: Campus.

Rieger, E. und Leibfried, S. (2003): „Limits to Globalisation. Welfarae States and the World Economy“. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Rieger, E. und Leibfried, S. (2004): „Kultur versus Globalisierung: Sozialpolitische Theologie in Konfuzianismus und Christentum“. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

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Professor Rieger's website at the Chair for Sociology.

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