Short presentation

Wiebke Marie Junk obtained her PhD at the Department of Political Science in 2018. She is part of the GovLis Project (www.govlis.eu), which assesses conditions for government responsiveness to public opinion and interest groups. Anne Rasmussen, who heads the GovLis project, was her supervisor.

Current research

Wiebke's latest research addresses the role of interest groups in policy processes in Europe. Her PhD project looked at coalition behaviour between interest groups and assessed the effects of different types of cooperation between lobbyists on their ability to reach policy makers and attain policy preferences.

More generally, her research interests include public policy, comparative politics, European Union (EU) and global governance, and democratic participation. 

Wiebke's work has been published in Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP), European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) and in Comparative Political Studies (CPS).

CV

Wiebke holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (University of Oxford) and M.A. in International Relations (Free University Berlin, Humboldt University and Potsdam) with an exchange programme at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po Paris). 

She has worked at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and was junior consultant at the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for the International Climate Initiative, funding body of the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. She also interned at Spiegel online, the NGO Facing Finance, and in a project for The Green Belt Movement with McKinsey Germany.

Teaching

She has taught classes on Institutions, Policy Processes and Policies in the EU, Lobbying and Interest Groups, International Public Adminstration and Advanced Methods in EU Studies. Moreover, she supervises Master theses on a variety of topics related to public policy, European and EU politics.

Her office hours are on Tuesdays, 15:00-16:00.