Prof. Dr. Stefan Wurster

About

Stefan Wurster conducts research on policy analysis in areas closely linked to sustainability such as education, research, innovation, environmental policy and energy policy. His specific research interests include the comparison of democracies and autocracies as well as different instruments of policy regulation.

Wurster studied political science, history and public law in Heidelberg and Barcelona. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD with distinction (summa cum laude). From 2009 to 2015 he was a research associate in Heidelberg. In 2010 he commenced a postdoctoral research project on “Sustainability and Regime Type”, successfully completing the interim evaluation in 2013. From 2012 to 2015 he coordinated a doctoral study program on the “Performance of Politics in Autocratic and Democratic Regimes” and from 2015 to 2016 he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Trier. Since 2016 he has been professor of policy analysis at TUM’s Bavarian School of Public Policy.

Professorship for Policy Analysis

The Professorship for Policy Analysis deals with the challenges of sustainable policy design at international, national and municipal level, with comparatively designed policy field analyzes in the fields of innovation, digital, environmental and energy policy, with regime comparisons between democracies and autocracies, as well as with new forms and instruments of governance of future technologies.