Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st Century World Society

Anna Lisa Ahlers, born in 1982, leads the Lise Meitner Research Group China in the Global System of Science at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She was associate professor of Modern Chinese Society and Politics at the University of Oslo, Norway, from 2014-2020, and is a member of the Junge Akademie of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Leopoldina.Damien Krichewsky, born in 1982, is a research fellow at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (Bonn). After completing a dissertation at Sciences Po in Paris, he was granted a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Society in Cologne. He has carried out research on topics such as Corporate Social Responsibility in India, the use of green finance as a tool of environmental aid in Egypt, and socio-ecological transformation in relation to the environmental governance of the Ganges in India's democracy.Evelyn Moser, born in 1982, studied political sciences and economics in Mainz and Moscow. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Lucerne and is currently a research fellow at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (Bonn). Her research interests include the sociology of political regimes, economic sociology, the sociology of organizations, and the analysis of societal change in the post-Soviet sphere.Rudolf Stichweh, born in 1951, is a professor for the theory of modern society at the Universität Bonn, permanent visiting professor at the University of Lucerne and member of the Leopoldina and the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of the Sciences and Arts. His research interests include the history and sociology of human social systems, science and universities in modern society, as well as functional differentiation and world society.