About the Author

Klaus von Beyme (Germany) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of . He studied Political Science, History, History of Art and Sociology at the Universities of Heidelberg, , , and (1956–1961). From 1961 to 1962, he was a Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center of Harvard University and Assistant to Carl Joachim Friedrich. He obtained his doctorate (1963) and his habilita- tion (1967) from . He was Full Professor of Political Science at Tübingen University (1967–1973) and at the University of Heidelberg (1974–1999). In Tübingen he was also Rector for a short time (1971). He was President of the German Society for Political Science (DVPW, 1973– 1975) and of the International Political Science Association (IPSA, 1982–1985). He taught as Visiting Professor at Stanford University (California) in 1979, at the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris (1985), and at the University of Melbourne, in Australia (1989). He served as a member of the Research Council at the European University Institute in (1983–1990) and of the Board of the Commission for Research into Social and Political Changes in the New Federal States (1990–1993), and he is a member of the Academia Europaea and of the -Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. He has received many awards for his scientific achievements, including Honorary Membership of the Humboldt University in Berlin (1995), the University Medal of the University of Heidelberg (1998), and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bern (2001). He was honoured with the Schader Prize in 2008. In 2010 he received an Honorary Professorship at Lomonosov University in Moscow. In 2012, at the 22nd World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association

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(IPSA) in Madrid, he was awarded the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Political Science by the International Political Science Association. In Germany, forty-one per cent of political scientists con- sidered him as the most important representative of their discipline and he was ranked second regarding “professional political importance”. Klaus von Beyme was twice (in 1988 and 1998) ranked amongst the most important representatives of Political Theory, Political Philosophy and History of Ideas and for Comparative Political Science, System Comparison. His numerous books and translations into many languages are listed in Chap. 2 of PSP 14 and selected books are listed at .

Maximilian von Beyme [Max Beyme] stud- ied political science, history and economics in Munich and Paris. Since 1993 he has worked as a freelance journalist for several German TV networks in Berlin. Looking to his journalistic work, he reflects in his paintings the narrative strategies of modern media. He therefore scans digital media for forgotten pictures and stories to reprocess them in the old-fashioned analogue medium of canvas. About the Book

Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award for Political Science (2012). On his eightieth birthday, this book addresses political culture, cultural policy, art and politics. The first part, on transformation theory, looks at “Historical Memories in Political Theories”, “Historical Memory in Nation-Building and the Building of Ethnic Subsystems”, “The Concept of Totalitarianism—A Reassessment after the Breakdown of Soviet Rule”, “Political Culture—A Concept from Ideological Refutation to Acceptance in the Soviet Social Sciences”, “Institutions and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia” and “Political and Economic Consolidation in Eastern Europe. Evidence from Empirical Data”. The second part, on cultural policies, addresses “Why is there no Political Science of the Arts?”, “Historical Memory and the Arts in the Era of the Avant-garde: Archaism and Neo-Primitivism as a ‘Passéisme for the Future’”, and “Capital-building in Post-war Germany”.

K. von Beyme, On Political Culture, Cultural Policy, Art and Politics, 159 SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice 15, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01559-0, © The Author(s) 2014