Kai Fürstenberg, M.A.
| Room: | SAI R 415 |
| Tel.: | +49 6221 54-8920 |
| Email: | Fuerstenberg@uni-heidelberg.de |
| Office Hours: | upon arrangement |
CURRICULUM VITAE
Research Fields / Interests
- Legitimacy and legitimacy-generation in institutions
- Institutional performance
- Local governments, decentralization and public policy (esp. Panchayati Raj)
- Development and social/ political empowerment
- Extremist ideologies and conflict
Conferences and Workshops
- Participation and presentation at a workshop on “Hierarchie und Emanzipation” in Heidelberg, 4 - 5 February 2011
- Participation and presentation at a conference on “Decentralization and its Discontents” in Hong Kong, 17 – 18 November 2011
Education
- since 2010: Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
- 2009: Magister Artium, Heidelberg University; title of the thesis: Perception and Performance of the Panchayati Raj System in West Bengal (A Case Study of Burdwan)
- 2008: Bachelor of Social Sciences, University of Uppsala; title of the thesis: Waziristan in the Focus of Islamist Extremism
- 2004: Abitur, Gymansium Andreanum Hildesheim
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