Detlef Sack

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Detlef Sack was born 1965. He is professor of democracy theory and government system research at Faculty of Political Science, University of Wuppertal.

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Detlef Sack holds the Chair of Comparative Political Science, focusing on comparative research on democratic processes and regimes and analysis of public policy and governance. In 2005 he was a Research fellow at Aston University and was also visiting scholar Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He was speaker of the Forum of Young Political and Administrational Scientists from 2006 till 2008. Detlef Sack is member of German Association for Political Science (since 2000).

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