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Markus Pauli

Dr. Markus Pauli

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Markus Pauliis Assistant Professor in Political Scienceat Dublin City University. He has held positions at Yale-NUS, the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU), and Heidelberg University, Germany. He studied at the Free University, Berlin, and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

His research focuses on:

Global governance

- International Studies Quarterly: Who on earth wants aworld government – and why? An international survey experiment (Aug 2024) (with Farsan Ghassim).

Collaborative governance & the SDGs

- Collaborative Governancefor the Sustainable Development Goals (with Ann Florini) Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 5(3), 583-598.

Indian politics

- Open-access book: Statecraft and Foreign Policy: India 1947–2023 (with Subrata K. Mitra & Jivanta Schottli), DCU Press/ UCL Press, launched in Jan 2024.

- Critical Realignment & Democratic Deepening: The Parliamentary Elections of 2014 and 2019 In India(with Mitra, S.K.; Schottli, S.). In: The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India.

Climate change policies in Europe & India

- Review of the Governance Regulationand theEuropeanClimateLaw (2024). Oberthür, Averchenkova, Jörgens, Kulovesi, Maarova, Pauli, Reins, Rosamond, Torney, Hough.

- Climate Change and India: Balancing Domestic and International Interests (2022) (with Mitra, S.K.; Schottli, S.) The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 3(02).

Research Interests

sustainable development; climate change policies; microfinance; collaborative governance; survey experiments; global governance; India; European Union

Teaching Interests

My main teaching interests are (1) Methods in Political Science, (2) Political Economy of Sustainable Development, (3) Public Policy

Courses taught:


Dublin City University, Ireland – School of Law and Government
- Public Policy Analysis
- Politics of Climate Change
- Social Science Experiments for LG608 Research Methods & the International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS).

Global Challenges – Technology and Sustainable Societies (DCU Futures): Impact I & II – Conceptualisation and Measurement; Introduction to Global Challenges; Project Management

Climate and Environmental Sustainability (DCU Futures): Climate Change and Environmental Policy

National University of Singapore – Department of Political Science
- Political Science Research Methods (Quantitative and Qualitative)
- Comparative Politics

Yale-NUS, Singapore
- Methods in the Social Sciences
- International Political Economy
- International Relations
- Sustainable Development in Asia

Heidelberg University
- Survey Methods – Designing Surveys, Data Collection and Statistical Data Analysis
- Empirical Methods in Social Science – Survey Design, Data Collection and Data Analysis
- Method Competency: Introduction to Political Science Methods and Data Analysis
- Doing Research – Introduction to Empirical Research Methods: Qualitative Text Analysis with MAXQDA
- Qualitative Methods of Political Science
- Social Science Theories, Concepts and Measurements
- Off the Mainstream: Evaluating Alternative Approaches to the Study of South Asian Politics
- International Political Economy of India
- Economic and Social Development of India since Independence

Sustainable Development Goals