Karl-Rudolf Korte


Karl-Rudolf Korte is a German political scientist and since 2002 professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen on Campus Duisburg. He appears regularly in national media as a guest for election analyses.

Education

Korte studied Political Science, German and Pedagogy in Mainz and Tübingen. In 1983 he passed the state examination and in 1988 he became a doctor. phil. PhD at the University of Mainz.

Career

Academic career

After completing his studies, Korte worked as a research assistant and head of several research projects at the University of Mainz until 1995.
Subsequently, he participated in the establishment of the Center for Applied Policy Research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. In 1997, Korte habilitated at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and was awarded a prize for the best habilitation thesis. After visiting professorships at the Universities of Trier, Cologne, Munich and Duisburg, he has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2002 at the chair "Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and Modern Theories of the State".
He has been Director of the NRW School of Governance since 2006. Since April 2010 he is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Election analysis ([psephology])

Korte became publicly known through his political analyses in daily newspapers, magazines and television. As a voting expert, he appears mainly on German news channels ZDF, WDR and Phoenix. His research focuses on the relationships between party strategies, media and voter behavior.
In 2010, e-mails written by Korte were published on an Internet portal, which, according to FAZ author Jürgen Kaube, suggested that he supplied "benevolent" analysis of the CDU against payment by the government. After a significant loss of votes for the CDU in the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010, which led to a change of the state government, Korte expressed himself critically of the policy of the CDU.
In the refugee debate in 2015, he contradicted the view that Angela Merkel had "lost the feel for the mood in the population," and described her attitude as "humanitarian and straightforward." The demands made by Markus Söder and other politicians for an upper limit for the influx of refugees Korte described as "pure symbolism" and "absurd".

Additional affiliations

Korte was chairman of the German Society for Political Science from 2013 to 2015. He is the managing editor of the Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft and editorial advisory board of the magazine Politik & Kommunikation.

Awards and recognitions

In November 2006, the magazine Unicum Beruf in cooperation with the auditing firm KPMG awarded Korte the title of Professor of the Year in the category of humanities, social sciences and cultural studies, acting as a "trailblazer for careers" and promoting young talent. He offers his students a network that brings them in constant contact with companies, so the reasoning of the initiators.

Writings