Wolfgang Merkel served as director of the “Democracy and Democratization” research program at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and a professor of political science at the Humboldt University Berlin. He has been a member of a number of key bodies, including the prestigious Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is also a non-party member of the Basic Values Commission of the Executive Committee of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Merkel was the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) in 1988 and 2016.
This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.
de Wilde, P., Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, and Michael Zürn. The Struggle over Borders. Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Merkel, W. and Sascha Kneip. Democracy and Crisis: Challenges in Turbulent Times. Springer, 2018.
Merkel, W., Raij Kollmorgen and Hans-Jürgen Wagener. Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford University Press, 2018.
