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Marius R. Busemeyer

Marius R. Busemeyer

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Political Science

D-Index
44
Citations
7100
World Ranking
386
National Ranking
17

Overview

Marius R. Busemeyer is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany and specializes in research within the social sciences. The primary focus of their work lies in political science and international relations, with a significant contribution also spanning sociology and political science, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and strategy and management.

Their research covers various aspects of social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, employment and welfare studies, political influence and corporate strategies, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, political and economic history of the UK and US, and global health care issues.

Recent published papers by Busemeyer include:

  • "Authoritarian values and the welfare state: the social policy preferences of radical right voters" (2021) in West European Politics
  • "Institutional Sources of Business Power" (2020) in World Politics
  • "Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe" (2021) in Journal of Social Policy

Busemeyer has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Julian L. Garritzmann
  • Erik Neimanns
  • Gianna M. Eick
  • Tobias Tober
  • Brian Burgoon

The scholar's work is often published in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of European Social Policy
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • West European Politics
  • European Journal of Political Research

Best Publications

  • The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Marius R. Busemeyer;Christine Trampusch

  • Attitudes towards redistributive spending in an era of demographic ageing: the rival pressures from age and income in 14 OECD countries

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Achim Goerres;Achim Goerres;Simon Weschle

  • Skills and inequality: partisan politics and the political economy of education reforms in Western welfare states

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Determinants of public education spending in 21 OECD democracies, 1980–2001

    Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Asset specificity, institutional complementarities and the variety of skill regimes in coordinated market economies

    Marius R. Busemeyer

  • From myth to reality: Globalisation and public spending in OECD countries revisited

    Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Social democrats and the new partisan politics of public investment in education

    Marius R. Busemeyer

  • [Introduction:] The comparative political economy of collective skill formation

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Christine Trampusch

  • Institutional Change in German Vocational Training: From Collectivism toward Segmentation

    Kathleen Ann Thelen;Marius R. Busemeyer;Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Public demand for social investment: new supporting coalitions for welfare state reform in Western Europe?

    Julian L. Garritzmann;Marius R. Busemeyer;Erik Neimanns

  • Fiscal austerity and the trade-off between public investment and social spending

    Christian Breunig;Christian Breunig;Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Public opinion on policy and budgetary trade-offs in European welfare states : evidence from a new comparative survey

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Julian L. Garritzmann

  • The Impact of Fiscal Decentralisation on Education and Other Types of Spending

    Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Who owns education? : Cleavage structures in the partisan competition over educational expansion

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Simon T. Franzmann;Julian L. Garritzmann

  • Review Article: Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Christine Trampusch

  • From Collectivism towards Segmentalism : Institutional Change in German Vocational Training

    Kathleen Ann Thelen;Kathleen Ann Thelen;Marius R. Busemeyer

  • The politics of opting out: explaining educational financing and popular support for public spending

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Torben Iversen

  • Inequality and the political economy of education: An analysis of individual preferences in OECD countries:

    Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Collective skill systems, wage bargaining, and labor market stratification

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Torben Iversen

  • Socio-economic institutions, organized interests and partisan politics: the development of vocational education in Denmark and Sweden

    Michael Dobbins;Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Beyond Positive and Negative : New Perspectives on Feedback Effects in Public Opinion on the Welfare State

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Aurélien Abrassart;Spyridoula Nezi;Roula Nezi

  • Conflictive preferences towards social investments and transfers in mature welfare states : The cases of unemployment benefits and childcare provision

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Erik Neimanns

  • Attitudes Towards Redistributive Spending in an Era of Demographic Aging: The Rival Pressures from Age and Income in 14 OECD Countries

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Achim Goerres;Simon Weschle

  • Authoritarian values and the welfare state: the social policy preferences of radical right voters

    Marius R. Busemeyer;Philip Rathgeb;Alexander H. J. Sahm

  • Introduction [Skills and inequality : partisan politics and the political economy of education reforms in Western welfare states]

    Marius R. Busemeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Torben Iversen
Torben Iversen Harvard University
Christian Breunig
Christian Breunig University of Konstanz
Ludger Woessmann
Ludger Woessmann Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Christiane Spiel
Christiane Spiel University of Vienna
Peter Maassen
Peter Maassen University of Oslo
Herbert Obinger
Herbert Obinger University of Bremen
Stephan Leibfried
Stephan Leibfried University of Bremen
Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Bernhard Ebbinghaus University of Mannheim

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