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 (Dr. phil.), born in 1982, is a research fellow at the Department for Comparative Research on Democracies, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, Universität Bonn. Her research focuses on political sociology, theory of society and democracy, and Eastern European studies.Rudolf Stichweh, born in 1951, is a professor of sociology at Forum Internationale Wissenschaft and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. His primary fields of research are the theory of world society and functional differentiation, the comparative study of democracies and autocracies, the history and sociology of science and universities, the study of inequality and asymmetrical dependencies in human societies, the sociology of the stranger.