Education
Saarland University; Free University of Berlin.
political scientist university professor
Saarland University; Free University of Berlin.
His research interests include political extremism and xenophobia. Born in Heppenheim, Hesse, Falter enrolled with a political science and modern history major at the University of Heidelberg in 1963 before finishing his studies with a Diplom at the Free University of Berlin in 1968. He earned his doctoral degree in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1981, both from the Saarland University.
In 1983 he accepted a chair at the Otto-Suhr-Institut in Berlin, a position he held until 1992.
In 1993 he joined faculty at the University of Mainz.
Selected publications ��� (1978), "Some Theoretical and Methodological Problems of Multilevel Analysis Reconsidered", Social Science Information 17 (6): 841�869, doi:10.1177/053901847801700604 . ��� Rattinger, Hans (1984), "Normal Vote Analysis. A Methodological Note", European Journal of Political Research 12 (3): 277�288, doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1984.tb00089.x ��� Schumann, Siegfried (1988), "Affinity towards right-wing extremism in Western Europe", West European Politics 11 (2): 96�110, doi:10.1080/01402388808424684 . ��� (1990), "The Two Hindenburg Elections of 1925 and 1932: A Total Reversal of Voter Coalitions", Central European History 23 (2/3): 225�241, doi:10.1017/s0008938900021361, JSTOR 4546175 . ��� (1992), "Economic Debts and Political Gains: Electoral Support for the NSDAP in Agrarian and Commercial Sectors, 1928-1933", Historical Social Research 17 (1): 3�21 . ��� Brustein, William (1995), "Who Joined the Nazi Party? Assessing Theories of the Social Origins of Nazism", Zeitgeschichte 22 (3/4): 83�108 . ��� Klein, Markus (1996), "The Mass Basis of the Extreme Right in Europe in a Comparative Perspective", Research on Democracy and Society 3: 41�61.
Assessing Theories of the Social Origins of Nazism", Zeitgeschichte 22 (3/4): 83–108.
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.