Claudia Wiesner is Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, as well as adjunct Professor in Political Science at Jyväskylä University (Finland). She has also been Acting Professor at Hamburg, Bochum and Marburg University, and a Visiting Fellow at Institutions such as the Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, New York University, the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI), and the Berlin Social Sciences Centre (WZB). Her main research interests lie in the comparative study of democracy, political culture and political sociology in the EU multilevel system. She especially focuses on changes of concepts and institutions, as well as on the related debates and discourses. Wiesner's second field of Research is Public Policy, its evaluation, its reform and its theory. Here she has a long-standing experience in public policy consulting. 

Wiesner is the Principal Investigator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ''Europe in the World'', Jean Monnet Network “Debating Europe” and of the international projects “Transnational Governance and Human Rights” and “Practising Transnational Politics". Moreover she chairs the ECPR Standing Group “Political Concepts”. She published various monographs, volumes and book chapters with publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Springer and Nomos and journal special issues and articles in journals such as Contemporary Political Theory, integration, the Journal of European Integration, Leviathan, Politics and Governance, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Redescriptions, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft and Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft.

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