Wolfgang C. Muller

Wolfgang Claudius Müller (born August 24, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian political scientist.

Life

Müller studied political science and communication science at the University of Vienna from 1978 to 1983 and graduated with a Dr. phil. from. He then studied sociology, attended the Essex Summer Schools in Data Analysis and Collection at the University of Essex twice and was employed as a university assistant and university lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna from 1983 to 1991, where he completed his habilitation in 1991 and until 1997 remained active as a lecturer and lecturer. After working abroad as a visiting fellow at Nuffield College , University of Oxford, as representative of the Chair for Political Science and International Comparative Social Research, University of Mannheim, as Senior Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen and after visiting professorships in Comparative Politics, Humboldt- University of Berlin and the University of California, San Diego, Humboldt University of Berlin and the Institute d'Études Politiques de Lille, Müller was Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Professor at Harvard University from 2002 to 2003 and Professor of Political Science from 2003 to 2009 at the University of Mannheim . In September 2009, Müller returned to his first place of work. He is now Professor of Democratic Governance at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna. Müller's research interests include political institutions, coalitions, elites and governance.

Publications (selection)

As the main author

• The Austrian MEPs: Personal Preferences and Political Action (Facultas, Vienna 2001) was designed by Müller as the main author.

As co-editor

• Politics in Austria: Still a Case of Consociationalism? (Frank Cass, 1992, with KR Luther),
• Policy, Office, or Votes? How Political Parties Make Hard Decisions in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 1999, with K. Strøm),
• Coalition Governments in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000, with K. Strøm),
• Political Parties and Electoral Change (Sage, 2004, with P. Mair and F. Plasser),
• Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies and Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining (Oxford University Press , 2003, with K. Strøm and T. Bergman),
• Politics in Austria: Das Handbuch (with H. Dachs et al., Manz, 2006) and Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining (Oxford University Press, 2008, with K. Strøm and T. Bergman)

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang C. Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
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