Marlene Jugl

Marlene Jugl is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Università Bocconi. She joined Bocconi’s Social and Political Sciences Department in 2019. Previously she worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Potsdam in Germany. She is also a co-chair of EGPA's Permanent Study Group VI "Governance of Public Sector Organizations". 

Her research lies at the intersection of comparative public administration, politics and policy and focuses on the performance of governments and bureaucracies in different environments. She studies how public bureaucracies interact with politicians, citizens, and other stakeholders, and how societal, cultural and historical factors affect how governments function. She is particularly interested in the effect of country size on the structure, stability and performance of governments and public administrations. Further research interests include crisis management, vulnerability and learning, and bureaucratic reputation. She is the author of numerous books and articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Regulation & Governance and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, among others.  

She got an MA in Public Administration from the University of Potsdam and a Doctoral Degree from the Hertie School in Berlin. She studied Political Science, Public Administration and French at the University of Potsdam, Sciences Po Lyon and the University of Warsaw. She was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence.