Professor Andreas Busch
Academic Visitor
Andreas Busch is Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Economy at the Department of Politics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Previously, he taught in the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford (2001-2008) and was a Fellow of St Antony‘s College and Hertford College. In 2008 he was Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), in 2009 he held a Fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
His main research areas are in Comparative Public Policy and Political Economy. He has worked on banking regulation and privacy regulation and is currently undertaking a project analysing attempts at regulating artificial intelligence. Besides that, he has research interests in the comparative analysis of political systems with a special emphasis on those of Germany and the United Kingdom.
He is the author of ”Banking regulation and globalization” (Oxford University Press, 2012) and the co-author (with Klaus von Beyme) of ”Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine Einführung” (13th ed., Springer, 2023) and the co-editor of ”Public policy and political ideas“ (with Dietmar Braun, Elgar, 1999), ”Politik und die Regulierung von Information” (with Jeanette Hofmann, Nomos, 2012, ”Netzpolitik: Ein einführender Überblick” (with Yana Breindl and Tobias Jakobi, Springer, 2019), and ”De-Globalisierung: Forschungsstand und Perspektiven“ (with Stefan Schirm, Susanne Lütz, Stefanie Walter and Hubert Zimmermann, Nomos, 2022).