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Professor Claus Offe teaches Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance. He had held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995-2005). He had been fellow and visiting professor at, among others, the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford and Princeton, the Australian National University as well as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York. His fields of research are political sociology, social policy, democratic theory, transformation studies. Prof. Offe has been a member of CAS Academic Advisory Council since 2003.

Among his recent English language book publications are: Varieties of Transition. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 1996; Modernity and The State. East and West. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 1996; (with Elster, Jon and Ulrich K. Preuss) Constitutional Design in Post-Communist Societies. Rebuilding the Ship at Sea. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998

The seminar is organized within the framework of the “Shaken Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies” project of CAS and will be followed by а reception to mark the opening of the new CAS academic year and the second year of the “Shaken Order” project.