Markus Lang (eng)

Markus Lang has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Institute of Sociology since 2023. Previously, he worked as a Data Scientist for the Berggruen Governance Index (Hertie School of Governance and UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs). He earned his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 2022. His research interests lie in economic sociology and political sociology, with a particular focus on the relationship between poverty and democracy.

Areas of research and teaching

Economic sociology
Political sociology
Social networks
Sociology of poverty

Publications

Journal articles

2025 | Implicit coordination in sellers' inflation: How cost shocks facilitate price hikes. (with Isabella M. Weber, Evan Wasner, Benjamin Braun and Jens van 't Klooster). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 74, 690-712.

2025 | What we should be asking: Grundsätzliche Überlegungen zu einem Forschungsprogramm für die soziologische Rechtsextremismusforschung (with Lotta Mayer). Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung, 5(1), 78–99.

2023 | Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index II: Initial Results, 2000–2019. (with Helmut K. Anheier and Edward L. Knudsen). Global Policy, 14(Suppl. 4), 16–34. [Data]

2023 | Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index I: Conceptual and methodological framework. (with Helmut K. Anheier and Edward L. Knudsen). Global Policy, 14(Suppl. 4), 5-15. [Data]

2021 | Why Not Replace GDP? (Response to: Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity). Global Perspectives, 2(1), 1-8.

2019 | Civil society in times of change: shrinking, changing and expanding spaces and the need for new regulatory approaches. (with Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler). Economics, 13, 1-27.

2017 | Open to Feedback? Formal and Informal Recursitivity in Creative Commons’ Transnational Standard Setting. (with Leonhard Dobusch and Sigrid Quack), Global Policy, 8(3), 353-363.

Book chapters

2022 | Civil Society and the Problem of Knowledge. in Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts. Essays in Honor of Helmut K. Anheier, edited by Michael Hoelscher, Regina A. List, Alexander Ruser and Stefan Toepler. Cham: Springer Nature, 273-284.

2020 | Comparative Non-Profit Sector Research: A Critical Assessment. (with Helmut K. Anheier) in The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, edited by Walter W. Powell and Particia Bromley. New York: Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2014 | The Anti-Patent Movement Revisited. Politics and Professionalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany. in Professionen, Eigentum und Staat: Europäische Entwicklungen im Vergleich – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Dietmar Müller and Hannes Siegrist. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 230–249.

Policy reports

2022 | Towards a New Understanding of Governance: The 2022 Berggruen Governance Index. (with Helmut K. Anheier and Edward L. Knudsen). UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Berggruen Institute.

2019 | The 2019 Berggruen Governance Index. (with Helmut K. Anheier, Dawn Nakagawa, C. J. Yetman and Regina A. List). Hertie School of Governance and Berggruen Institute.