Department of Politics and Public Administration

Welcome to the website of Prof. Dr. Marius R. Busemeyer!

Welcome to our website! Our main focus is on the international comparison of education systems. Hence, our interests lie within the field of comparative politics, political economy, welfare state research and party politics. Both our research and teaching fall within these fields.

On the following pages you find information on the chair's team, our research, the Emmy-Noether Project "The Politics of Education and Training Reforms in Western Welfare States", and courses taught at our chair.

Office hour during summer term 2012: Wednesday 09:00-10:00 am. Please sign in at the list in front of D236.

News

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Prof. Marius R. Busemeyer and Aurélien Abrassart will give a speach on education policy on May 30 and 31 at Sciences Po, Paris.

Call for Paper for the special issue of the Socio-Economic Review on "The political economy of skills and inequality".

We warmly welcome Aurélien Abrassart at our chair! Aurélien Abrassart will cover some of Prof. Marius Busemeyer's teaching and offers two seminars during the summer term 2013.

Within his research project "Collective Skill Formation in Liberal Market Economies" Janis Vossiek spent seven weeks in Australia to interview experts in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Adelaide.

Starting 1. April 2013, a new research project started at our chair: Investing in Education in Europe: Attitudes, Politics and Policies (INVEDUC). The project is funded by a ERC-Starting Grant amounting to 1.5 M. Euro. We are happy to welcome our new colleagues Roula Nezi and Erik Neimanns!

More news here.

Recent publications

Busemeyer, Marius R. / Ebbinghaus, Bernhard / Leibfried, Stephan / Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole / Obinger, Herbert / Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (Hg.), 2013: Wohlfahrtspolitik im 21. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.

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Busemeyer, Marius R. / Trampusch, Christine (Hg.), 2011: The political economy of collective skill formation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Busemeyer, Marius R., 2013: Education funding and individual preferences for redistribution. European Sociological Review 29 (2): 1-12.

Busemeyer, Marius R. / Franzmann, Simon T. / Garritzmann, Julian L., 2013: Who owns education? Cleavage structures in the partisan competition over educational expansion. West European Politics 36 (3): 521-546.

Knill, Christoph / Vögtle, Eva-Maria / Dobbins, Michael, 2013: Hochschulpolitische Reformen im Zuge des Bologna-Prozesses: Eine vergleichende Analyse von Konvergenzdynamiken im OECD-Raum. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Busemeyer, Marius R., 2012: Inequality and the political economy of education: An analysis of individual preferences in OECD countries. Journal of European Social Policy 22(3): 2019-240.

Busemeyer, Marius, 2012: Business as a pivotal actor in the political training reform: Insights from the case of Germany, British Journal of Industrial Relations 50 (4): 690-713.

Busemeyer, Marius / Breunig, Christian, 2012: Fiscal austerity and the trade-off between public investment and social spending. Journal of European Public Policy 19 (6): 921-938.

Busemeyer, Marius R. / Jensen, Carsten, 2012: The impact of economic coordination and educational institutions on individual-level preferences for academic and vocational education. Socio-Economic Review (April 2012): 1-23.

Dobbins, Michael / Martens, Kerstin, 2011: Towards an educational approach à la finlandaise? French education policy after PISA. Journal of Education Policy 27 (1): 23-43.

Dobbins, Michael / Toens, Katrin, 2011: Politologische Zugänge zur Hochschulforschung. Die Hochschule: Journal für Wissenschaft und Bildung 2/2011: 56-73.

Busemeyer, Marius R. / Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra / Wolter, Stefan C., 2011: Individual Policy Preferences for Vocational versus Academic Education: Microlevel Evidence for the Case of Switzerland. Journal of European Social Policy 21(3): 253-273.

Busemeyer, Marius R. / Trampusch, Christine, 2011: Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education. British Journal of Political Science 41 (2): 413-443.

Busemeyer, Marius R./Trampusch, Christine (Hg.), 2010: Berufsbildungs- und Hochschulpolitik in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Special Issue 16(4) of the Swiss Political Science Review.

Raphaela Schlicht, 2010: Determinanten der Bildungsungleichheit. Die Leistungsfähigkeit von Bildungssystemen im Vergleich der deutschen Bundesländer. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Busemeyer, Marius R. / Nikolai, Rita, 2010: Education, in: Francis G. Castles / Jane Lewis / Herbert Obinger / Chris Pierson / Stephan Leibfried (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook on Welfare State Policy. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 494-508.