Associate Member

Thomas Biebricher

  • Biografische Angaben

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Biebricher (1974) is Heisenberg Professor of Political Science with a focus on political theory, history of ideas and theories of economics at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Previously, he was Associate Professor for the History of Economic Governance at the Department for Management, Philosophy and Politics at Copenhagen Business School. He is a political theorist and his research focuses on the theory and practice of neoliberalism, conservatism and the center-right as well as the political theory of the European Union.

    After completing his doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, he spent six years as a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Subsequently, he was a junior research group leader at the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders at Goethe University, where he also held various professorships and post-doctoral positions, interrupted by a research stay of several months at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

  • Publikationen

    Biebricher, Thomas / Bonefeld, Werner / Nedergaard, Peter 2022, The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism, London und New York.

    Biebricher, Thomas 2021, Die politische Theorie des Neoliberalismus, Berlin.

    Biebricher, Thomas 2018, Geistig-moralische Wende: Die Erschöpfung des deutschen Konservatismus, Berlin.

    Biebricher, Thomas 2020, Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism, in: Global Perspectives 1, https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.11872

    Biebricher, Thomas / Ptak, Ralf 2020, Soziale Marktwirtschaft und Ordoliberalismus zur Einführung, Hamburg.

News from the research center

Publication
08.01.2026 | Journal article

The rural-urban divide in Europe

Riera, Pedro; Roßteutscher, Sigrid (Hrsg.) (2025): „The rural-urban divide in Europe: Assessing its impact on political attitudes and voting behavior“. In: Electoral Studies, Special Issue.

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08.01.2026 | Journal article

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Hackethal, Andreas; Koenen, Johannes; Laudenbach, Christine (2025): „Gender Differences in Financial Advice“. In: American Economic Review, 115 (12), pp. 4218–4252.

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News
11.12.2025

Jonathan White on future thinking in democracies

On the second date of the lecture series "At the crossroads? On the crisis of democracy". Political scientist White discusses views on the future of democracies. A follow-up report

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News
04.12.2025

The crisis of democratic theory from a sociological perspective

Sociologist Jenny Brichzin's lecture "Crisis of Democratic Theory? A sociological intervention" opened our lecture series "At the crossroads? On the future of democratic theory". The sociologist criticized the fact that social coexistence has so far been insufficiently addressed in democratic theory. A follow-up report

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Publication
03.12.2025 | Journal article

The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment

Džankić, Jelena; Seyfettinoglu, Mira; Shachar, Ayelet; Vink, Maarten; Baaren, Luuk van der (2025): „The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment“. In: Comparative Political Studies, OnlineFirst.

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Publication
01.12.2025

Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe

Hediger, Vinzenz (2025): „Preface: (Re)Building Europe through Cinema (Studies)”. In: Cesalkova, Lucia, et al. (eds.): Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe. Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space. Amsterdam University Press.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Chapter

Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen

Müllmann, Dirk; Spiecker gen. Döhmann, Indra (2025): „Die Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Multi-Party-Computation beim Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden als Grundlage der Qualitätssicherung von KI-Anwendungen“. In: Honekamp, Wilfried; Kemme, Stefanie; Struck, Jens: Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf die zukünftige Polizeiarbeit. Springer.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Chapter

Die Sicherheit der Zukunft – Künstliche Intelligenz und soziale Kontrolle: Vom Predictive Policing zum Social Scoring

Singelnstein, Tobias (2025): „Die Sicherheit der Zukunft – Künstliche Intelligenz und soziale Kontrolle: Vom Predictive Policing zum Social Scoring“. In: Honekamp, Wilfried; Kemme, Stefanie; Struck, Jens: Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf die zukünftige Polizeiarbeit. Springer.

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Publication
21.11.2025 | Anthology

Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers

Felfe, Jörg; Dick, Rolf van (eds.) (2025): Handbook of Leadership. Applied Business Psychology for Managers. Springer.

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