Prof. Dr. Marius Busemeyer

Marius Busemeyer is Professor of Comparative Political Economy and speaker for the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Politics of Inequality’ at the University of Konstanz. His research focuses on comparative political economy and welfare state research, education and social policy, government spending, theories of institutional change as well as public opinion and individual attitudes towards the welfare state. He studied political science, economics, public administration and law at the University of Heidelberg and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He then completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Heidelberg and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, the WZB Berlin, the City University of New York (CUNY), the Department for Economics at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS). Marius Busemeyer is a member of various advisory boards (including the Advisory Board for Vocational Education and Training Research at the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, the Advisory Board of SOCIUM (Bremen), the Supervisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the User Advisory Board of GESIS) and was elected a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2024.