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Prof. Dr. Paul Marx

Cluster Faculty since 2023

Research Areas

Main research topics

Labour market policy, Political inequality, Political socialisation and participation, Politics of taxation and redistribution

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Paul Marx is a researcher in the fields of political economy and sociology. He currently holds a Heisenberg Professorship at the University of Bonn and is affiliated with the IZA – Institute of Labour Economics as a Research Fellow. Paul Marx received his doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Cologne and has held professorships at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Southern Denmark.

His research focuses on comparative public policy analysis, unequal political representation, and the socio-economic factors influencing political participation. He currently works on the project “The micro and macro dynamics of political inequality”, funded by the Heisenberg Program of the German Research Foundation.