Professor Anne Rasmussen

Anne Rasmussen is a Professor of Political Science. In addition, she is a Professor the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Professor II at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, and a Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute in the Netherlands.

Her research focuses on interest groups, political representation, public opinion, social media, gender, citizen engagement, and democratic dialogue. She is also interested in public policy-making, digital democracy, and political parties.

Anne has studied political science at the Universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen and Political Economy at the University of Essex. Before joining the department, she worked as a full-time professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, an Associate Professor at Leiden University, and as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

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Anne is currently the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant: “Advocacy in Digital Democracy: Use, Impact & Democratic consequences” and a larger project on “Inequality in Social Media Representation” funded by the Danish Research Council. She also serves as co-editor of the official journal of the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association: Interest Groups and Advocacy.

Office hours

I am currently on research leave. Please send an e-mail if you are interested in a meeting.

Research interests

• Interest groups
• Political representation
• Public opinion
• Public policy
• Gender
• Citizen engagement
• Democratic dialogue
• Social media
• Digital democracy

PhD and post doctoral supervision

Current PhD student:

Daniel Cruz: Informed about whom? Political Elites and the Effect of Information and its Sources

Prof Rasmussen is interested in supervising students in her substantive research areas who wish to employ quantitative methods (including experimental and quasi-experimental designs) and/or qualitative approaches.

Latest publications

• Rasmussen, A. and Otjes, S (2024) ‘Responding to Whom? An Experimental Study of the Dynamics of Responsiveness to Interest Groups and the Public’, Journal of European Public Policy.
• Junk, W. and Rasmussen, A (2023) ‘Are Citizens Responsive to Interest Groups? A Field Experiment on Lobbying and Intended Citizen Behavior’, West European Politics.
• Rasmussen, A and Reher, S (2023) ‘(Inequality in) Interest Group Involvement and the Legitimacy of Policy-Making’, British Journal of Political Science.
• Eady, G and Rasmussen, A (2022) ‘The Unequal Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Political Interest Representation’, Political Behavior.
• Allern, E., Hansen, V. W., Rødland, L., Røed, M., Gall, C. L., Klüver, H, Marshall, D., Otjes, S, Pogunkte, T., Rasmussen, A, Saurugger, S., Webb, P. and Witko, C. (2022) ‘Introducing the Party-Interest Group Relationships in Contemporary Democracies (PAIRDEM) Datasets‘, Party Politics.
• Rasmussen, A. and Willems, E. (2021) ‘Interest Groups, Public Opinion and Political Representation’, Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups.
• Rasmussen, A., Buhmann-Holmes, N and Egerod, B (2021) ‘The Executive Revolving Door: New dataset on the Career Moves of former Danish Ministers and Permanent Secretaries’, Scandinavian Political Studies.
• Allern, E., Klüver, H., Marshall, D., Otjes, S., Rasmussen, A. and Witko, C. (2021) ‘Policy Positions, Power and Interest Group-Party Lobby Routines’, Journal of European Public Policy.
• Rasmussen, A., Binderkrantz, A.S. and Klüver, H. (2021) ‘Organized Interests in the Media and Policy Congruence: The Contingent Impact of the Status Quo’, European Journal of Political Research.
• De Bruycker, I. and Rasmussen, A. (2021) ‘Blessing or Curse for Congruence? How interest groups affect congruence between citizens and elected representatives’, Journal of Common Market Studies.
• Allern, E., Hansen, V.W., Otjes, S., Rasmussen A., Roed, M., and Bale, T. (2021) ‘All about the Money? A Cross-national Study of Individual Parties’ Relations with Trade Unions in Twelve Western Democracies’, Party Politics 27(3).
• Junk, W., Romeijn, J. and Rasmussen, A., (2020) ‘Is this a men’s world? On the need to study descriptive representation of women in lobbying and policy advocacy’, Journal of European Public Policy.
• Allern, E., Hansen, V.W., Marshall, D., Rasmussen A. and Webb, P. (2020) ‘Competition and Interaction: Party Ties to Interest Groups in a Multidimensional Policy Space’, European Journal of Political Research.
• Toshkov, D., Mäder, L. and Rasmussen, A. (2020) ‘Party Government and Policy Responsiveness. Evidence from three parliamentary democracies‘, Journal of Public Policy 40(2).
• Rasmussen, A. (2019) ‘Celebrating an Unrepentant Pluralist in “Interest Group Land”: Dave Lowery and his contribution to Interest Group Research’ in Flight of Wisdom. On the Importance of Community in interest representation and academic progress, Liber Amicorum for David Lowery.
• Dionigi, M.K. and Rasmussen, A. (2019). ‘The Ordinary Legislative Procedure (OLP)’. In Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics. Oxford University Press.
• Rasmussen, A. (2019) ‘Policy Representation in Europe: the 2018 Peter Mair Lecture’, Open Access, Irish Political Studies 34(3).
• Rasmussen, A. and Reher S. (2019) ‘Civil Society Engagement and Policy Representation in Europe’, Open Access, Comparative Political Studies 52(11).
• Flöthe, L. and Rasmussen, A. (2019) ‘Public Voices in the Heavenly Chorus? Group Type Bias and Opinion Representation’, Open Access, Journal of European Public Policy 26(6).
• Junk, W.M. and Rasmussen, A. (2019) ‘Framing by the Flock: Collective Issue Definition and Advocacy Success’, Open Access, Comparative Political Studies 52(4).
• Rasmussen, A., Reher, S. and Toshkov, D. (2019) ‘The Opinion-Policy Nexus in Europe and the Role of Political Institutions’, Open Access, European Journal of Political Research 58(2).
• Rasmussen, A., Mäder, L and Reher, S. (2018) ‘With a Little Help from the People? The Role of Public Opinion in Advocacy Success’, Comparative Political Studies 51(2).
• Rasmussen, A., Romeijn, J. and Toshkov, D. (2018) ‘Dynamics of Regulatory Policymaking in Sweden: The Role of Media Advocacy and Public Opinion’, Scandinavian Political Studies 41(1).
• Bevan, S. and Rasmussen, A. (2017) ‘When Does Government Listen to the Public? Voluntary Associations and Dynamic Agenda Representation in the United States’, Open Access, Policy Studies Journal.