Wolfgang is retired from teaching and administration.

He directs four funded research projects and is editor of the journal West European Politics.

Previous to holding the professorship of Democratic Governance at the University of Vienna, he held the Comparative Government chair at the University of Mannheim and served as Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), one of the most important German social science research institutes and one of the world’s leading centres of research on European politics.

As visiting professor he taught at the Humboldt University, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Mannheim, and the Institute d’Études Politiques de Lille (SciencesPo Lille).

Wolfgang has held research fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of Bergen, and Harvard University.

He has served as a member of the editorial boards of the Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Public Policy, and West European Politics and he is currently a member of the editorial boards of German Politics, Party Politics,  Research and Politics (RaP), Swiss Political Science Review, and the Italian Review of Political Science/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica.

From 2008 to 2016 he served as rapporteur for the Social Sciences in the Austrian Research Fund (FWF). 

Wolfgang specialises in comparative government and politics, with a special interest in coalition politics, party competition, party politics, political institutions, Austrian politics, and political economy.