Thomas M. Klotz

Post-doctoral Researcher

Résumé

Thomas M. Klotz has been a research assistant at the Chair of Policy Analysis at the Munich School of Public Policy since September 2024. The graduate political scientist is doing his doctorate at the Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the School of Public Policy under Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs on the referendums “Save the Bees” in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

He studied political science in Munich and Venice and was head of the “Education, Universities, Culture” department at the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation's Academy for Politics and Current Affairs for around four years. He has previously lectured at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Neubiberg, at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Heilbronn and Villingen-Schwenningen and at the Munich School of Public Policy.

Thomas M. Klotz teaches the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany, social and European politics, right-wing populist parties in Europe and methods of policy analysis. He also gives numerous lectures on political topics, such as in 2019 at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) on species conservation policy in Europe.

Main areas of research

His research interests in comparative politics include direct democracy and party analysis as well as species conservation and cultural policy.

Publications

Fackler / Klotz / Menke (eds.): Human Remains. Ethical challenges for research and exhibition, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2022. www.herder.de/wissen/shop/p8/87556-human-remains-ebook-pdf/

Fackler, Guido; Klotz, Thomas M.: Human Remains as a cultural policy and museum challenge. In: Fackler / Klotz / Menke (eds.): Human Remains. Ethische Herausforderungen für Forschung und Ausstellung, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2022, pp. 338-355.

Klotz, Thomas M.: The FPÖ on the way to becoming a catch-all party? In: Jesse / Mannewitz / Panreck: Populism and Democracy, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019, pp. 73-98. www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783845294773/populismus-und-demokratie

Klotz, Thomas M.: Quo vadis, tu felix Austria? In: Political Studies (Vol. 69, No. 477), 2018, pp. 56-66.

Klotz, Thomas M.: How does right-wing populism work? In: Political Studies (Vol. 68, No. 473), 2017, pp. 38-47.

Reviews

Rudolf Augstein Foundation: Follow the science - but where to? In: Political Studies (Vol. 73, No. 505), 2022, pp. 66-68.

Schmohl / Philipp: Handbuch Transdisziplinäre Didaktik, In: Political Studies (Vol. 73, No. 501), 2022, pp. 62-63.

Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar: The Speech of Education, In: Political Studies (Vol. 72, No. 499), 2021, pp. 68-70.

Assmann, Aleida: The Reinvention of the Nation, In: Political Studies (Vol. 72, No. 498), 2021, pp. 68-70.

Hartleb, Florian: The Hour of the Populists, In: Journal of Politics (Vol. 64, No. 4), 2017, pp. 522-523.