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Marius R. Busemeyer is a Full Professor of Political Science with a focus on Comparative Political Economy at the University of Konstanz and Speaker of the Excellence Cluster "The Politics of Inequality". His research focuses on comparative political economy and welfare state research, education and social policy, public spending, theories of institutional change and, more recently, public opinion on the welfare state. Busemeyer studied political science, economics, public administration and public law at University of Heidelberg and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Heidelberg. He worked as a senior researcher with Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He held visiting professor- and fellowships at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, the WZB Berlin, the Nuffield College at Oxford, the Department for Economics at University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the Amsterdam Center for Inequality Studies (AMCIS). He received two major grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG)’s Emmy Noether program and the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant scheme. His publications include the recently published A loud, but noisy signal? Public opinion and education reform in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press), the book Skills and Inequality (Winner of the 2015 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research), an edited volume (with Christine Trampusch) on The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation (Oxford University Press), a number of special issues (as guest editor) of West European Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Socio-Economic Review and a large number of journal articles in leadings outlets of the discipline such as World Politics, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Socio-Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of European Public Policy and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. Busemeyer is a member of a number of advisory councils (e.g. the advisory board on VET research at the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, the advisory board of the SOCIUM (Bremen), the advisory board of ICES (Flensburg) and the users' advisory board of GESIS) and has been appointed member of the Young Academy of Europe.