Wolfgang Merkel

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel serves as a Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences within the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in Berlin, Germany. He concurrently holds the administrative role of Women's Representative for the institute, with primary contact via email at wolfgang.merkel@wz-berlin.de.

His research concentrates on:

• Political Science
• Democracy Research
• Comparative Politics
• Institutional Analysis
• Regime Transformation

examining systemic challenges and evolutionary trajectories of democratic governance across global contexts.

Prof. Merkel actively contributes to the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), a strategic partnership between WZB and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he shapes doctoral curricula and supervises advanced research in social science methodologies and political theory.