Dr Daniel Rasch

Daniel Rasch is a researcher in public policy and public administration, with a focus on policy areas such as energy, environment, and security. He was an interim professor at the University of Public Administration in Speyer for Empirical Research Methods and is currently employed at the FernUniversität Hagen.

His PhD (2016) focused on framing and lobbying success in the multi-level governance context of the European Union. He published widely on the topic of governance and interest mediation.

His current research focuses on interest mediation in the German federal ministries. He investigates networks, power distribution within policy areas and within the federal administration and uses a vast array of methods, ranging from qualitative and quantitative text analysis, text reuse approaches to network analysis.

During his time at the American-German Institut (Johns-Hopkins-University) in Washington, DC he was comparing German and US’ climate policies and how they came to be after the Paris Agreement in 2015.