Michael was previously assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) of education policy at the Goethe University of Frankfurt.

His doctoral dissertation dealt with higher education in Central and Eastern Europe.

His main areas of research are higher and secondary education policy, post‐communist transformation processes, and organised interests.

He is the co‐director of the research project The Missing Link: Examining Organized Interests in Post‐Communist Policy‐Making, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and Polish National Science Center (NCN).

He has published in many political science and public administration journals such as Governance, European Political Science Review, Democratization, Socio-Economic Review, Interest Groups and Advocacy, Regulation and Governance, Policy and Society and European Societies.

He is currently editing a German-language book on the politics of Ukraine (Das politische System der Ukraine: Institutionen, Akteure und Politikfelder) to be published in early 2025 by Springer.

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