Johanna Kuenzler

Biography

Johanna Kuenzler is a political scientist at the German University for Administrative Sciences in Speyer. From 2015 until 2021, she was a PhD student, research and teaching assistant at the KPM Center for Public Management, University of Bern. Her thesis, "Investigating the Emergence of a Negative Organizational Reputation", was written in the context of a research project that was part of the National Research Programme 76 (Welfare and Coercion), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Johanna Kuenzler received her Bachelor Degree (German Language and Literature / Political Science) and Master (Swiss and Comparative Politics) Degrees from the University of Bern. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant for the Année Politique Suisse, a yearbook on Swiss National Politics written at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bern.

Johanna Kuenzler's expertise lies with policy process theories (especially Narrative Policy Framework and Multiple Streams Framework) and public administration research. Her main research focus is on fossil fuels in the context of sustainable energy transitions. Furthermore, she has investigated agricultural policy, social policy, health policy, and research policy. Johanna Kuenzler mainly applies qualitative methods in her research. She is an expert of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).