Hans-Joachim Lauth
Hans-Joachim Lauth (born 1957 in Mannheim) is a German political scientist. He has been the incumbent of the Chair of Comparative Politics and Systems Theory at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology (IPS) at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. Career From 1991 to 1996, he was a research assistant in the fields of international politics, development studies and comparative government at the University of Mainz. From 1996 to 2002 he was a research assistant (C 1) in the area of analysis and comparison of political systems. From 2002 to 2004 Lauth held a three-semester substitute professorship at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau in der Pfalz, and from 2004 to 2005 a three-semester substitute professorship at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. From 2005 to 2008, he taught as a professor at the Institute of Political Science at the FernUniversität in Hagen and was spokesperson for the DVPW working group on Intercultural Comparison of Democracies. Since 2008, he has held the Chair of Comparative Politics and Systems Theory at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology (IPS) at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. From 2009 to 2011,