Kurt Luther

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Biography

Honours
2009: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts (Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst).

Education
In Switzerland, the UK and Germany. My PhD was on Comparative Federalism in Western Europe.

Positions at Keele

June 2019: I decided to move to the position of Professor Emeritus.
January 2015: appointed Keele University's first Dean for Internationalisation. As part of the Vice Chancellor’s team, I had overall responsibility to provide strategic leadership of Keele’s international agenda. Successes during my four year tenure included developing with Beijing Foreign Studies University an innovative joint programme offering Bachelor degrees in International Diplomacy (BFSU) and in International Governance and Public Policy (Keele).
2010: appointed to a Chair in Comparative Politics
2000: established and thereafter convened the Keele European Parties Research Unit (KEPRU)
1993: joined the then “Department of Politics”

Visiting Positions (selection)

2017- : Distinguished Research Professor, Center for German Studies at Tongji University, Shanghai
2014-17: Guest Professor (高端外国专, or ‘High-End Foreign Expert’) at Tongji University, Shanghai under China’s ‘Recruitment Program of Global Experts 1000 Talent Plan’
2008-09: Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Vienna University
2007: Visiting Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
2004: Visiting Researcher, Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

Academic Networks (selection)

2003-2016: Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research’s Standing Group on Political Parties, which has in excess of 400 members on five continents. I played a major role in initiating and then (co)-directing the Group’s highly-regarded multinational PhD Summer School, held annually since 1990.
Since 1980: Member of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP) and was elected to its Executive Committee on several occasions.

Publications

Luther, K. R. (2020) ‘Austrian History’, in Europa Publications (ed.), Western Europe 2020, 22nd edition London: Routledge, in print.
Luther, K. R. (2017) ‘A dying embrace? Interlocked party-union directorates in Austria’s cartel democracy’, in Allern E. H. and Bale, T. (eds) Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 70-92.
Luther, K.R. (2016) ‘Austria’ in Lewis, D. S. and Slater, W. (eds) The 2016 Annual Register: World Events, 257th edition, (Ann Arbor, UI: ProQuest), 49-51.
Luther, K. R. (2015) ‘Austria and the not-so-Great Recession: the primacy of politics’, in Kriesi, H. and Pappas, T. S. (eds) Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession, Colchester: ECPR Press, 204-232.
Luther, K. R. (2013) ‘Demand, Supply and the Media: Themes from the work of Fritz Plasser’, in Karlhofer, F., Jeschke, S. and Pallaver, G. (eds) Medienzentrierte Demokratien: Befunds, Trends Perspektiven, Festschrift für Univ.-Prof. Dr. Fritz Plasser, Vienna: Facultas.wuv, 295-302.
Luther, K. R. (2012) ‘Of goals and own goals: A case study of right-wing populist party strategy for and during incumbency’, Party Politics 17(4) 453-80
Bale, T., Green-Pedersen, C., Krouwel, A., Luther, K. R. and Sitter, N. (2010) 'If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them? Explaining Social Democratic Responses to the Challenge from the Populist Radical Right in Western Europe', Political Studies, 5(3): 410-426
Luther, K. R. (2009) Governing with right-wing populists and managing the consequences: Schüssel and the FPÖ, in: G. Bischof and F. Plasser (eds) The Schüssel Years in Austria (New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press), 79-118
Luther, K. R. (2009) 'The revival of the radical right: The Austrian parliamentary election of 2008', West European Politics, 32, pp. 1049-1061.
Luther, K. R. (2009) Austria, in: D. Sagar, (ed.) Political Parties of the World (London, John Harper Publishing), 7th edn, pp.28-35.
Luther, K. R. (2009) Austrian History, in J. Love, (ed), Western Europe 2010, 12th edition (London: Routledge), 68-75
Luther, K. R. (2008) ‘Towards stratarchy? European integration and the intra-party power of Austrian MEPs and delegation leaders’, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 37/3, 253-272.
Luther, K. R. (2008) ‘The Austrian parliamentary election of 2006: From bipolarism to forced marriage?, West European Politics, 31/5, 1005-1015.
Luther, K. R. (2008) 'Electoral Strategies and Performances of Austrian Right-wing Populism, 1986-2006', in Gunter Bischof and Fritz Plasser (eds.) The Changing Austrian Voter. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 104-122.
Poguntke, T. Aylott, N, Ladrech, R. and Luther, K. R. (2007) 'The Europeanization of national party organizations. A conceptual analysis', European Journal for Political Research, 46/6, 747-771
Poguntke, T, Aylott, N., Carter, E. and Ladrech, R. (2007) (eds) The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation, London, Routledge.
Luther, K. R. (2006) ‘Wahlstrategien und Wahlergebnisse des österreichischen Rechtspopulismus, 1986-2006’, in Fritz Plasser and Peter A. Ulram (eds) Wechselwahlen. Analysen zur Nationalratswahl, Vienna: facultas.wuv, 231-254.
Luther, K. R. (2006) 'Strategien und (Fehl-)Verhalten: Die Freiheitlichen und die Regierungen Schüssel I und II', in Emmerich Tálos, (ed.), Umbau in Schwarz-Blau (-Orange). Eine Bilanz, Vienna: Lit Verlag,19-37.
Luther, K. R. (2006) 'Die Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) und das Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ)' in Herbert Dachs, Peter Gerlich, Herbert Gottweis, Helmut Kramer, Volkmar Lauber, Wolfgang C. Müller and Emmerich Tálos (eds), Politik in Österreich. Ein Handbuch, Vienna: Manz, 364-388.
Luther, K. R. and Müller-Rommel, F. (eds) (2005) Political Parties in the New Europe: Political and Analytical Challenges, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition.
Luther, K. R. (2003) 'The FPÖ: From Populist Protest to Incumbency', in Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds) Right-Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century, London: Frank Cass, 191-219.
Luther, K. R. (2003) 'The Self-Destruction of a Right-Wing Populist Party? The Austrian Parliamentary Elections of 2002', West European Politics, 26/2, 136-152.
Luther, K. R. (2001) 'Parteistrategische Herausforderungen der Regierungsbeteiligung: Die FPÖ vor und nach ihrer Regierungsbeteiligung', Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Special Issue on Anlassfall Österreich: Die Europäische Union auf dem Weg zu einer Wertegemeinschaft, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 69-88.
Luther, K. R. (2000) 'Austria: A Democracy under Threat from the Freedom Party?', Parliamentary Affairs, 53/3, 426-442.
Luther, K. R. and Deschouwer, K. (eds) (1999) Political Elites in Divided Societies: Political Parties in Consociational Democracy London: Routledge,
Luther, K. R. (1999) 'From Moderate to Polarized Pluralism? The Austrian party system in transition', in David Broughton & Mark Donovan (eds), Changing Party Systems in Western Europe, London: Pinter, 118-142.

Luther, K. R. and Ogilvie, I, (eds) (1998) Austria and the European Union Presidency: Background and Perspectives, Keele: Keele European Research Centre.
Luther, K. R. and Pulzer, P. (edS) (1998) Austria 1945-95: Fifty Years of the Second Republic, London: Ashgate.
Luther, K. R. and Müller, W. C. (1992) Politics in Austria: Still a Case of Consociationalism?, London: Frank Cass, (This volume also appeared as a special issue of West European Politics, 15 (1).)

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