Renate Mayntz#
| Membership Number: | 9 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpifg.de/people/rm/index_en.asp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 Professor Emeritus
- 1985 Honorary Professorship, University of Cologne
- 1985 Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
- 1973 - 1985 Full Professor (Sociology), University of Cologne
- 1971 - 1973 Full Professor (Sociology of Organisation), Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (School of Public Administration), Speyer
- 1965 - 1971 Full Professor (Sociology) at the Free University of Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Theories of society/ social systems
- Political institutions, policy development and implementation
- Development of science and of technology
- Relationship between science and politics
- Transnational structures and "global" governance
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Honorary Doctorate, University of Paris X - Nanterre
- 1977 Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate of the European University Institute in Florence
- 2002 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Ernst Hellmut Vits-Preis: Award of the Society for the Advancement of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster (Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster e.V.)
- 2011 Verdienstorden des Landes NRW: Order of Merit of North-Rhine Westphalia
