Employment History

• 11.2020 - today
  Lecturer at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Free University Berlin
  
  
• 01.2020 - 10.2020
  Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
  

  Managing Editor of Swiss Political Science Review

• 02.2018 - 01.2020
  British Academy Newton International Fellow
  Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
  
  
• 02.2013 - 01.2018
  Research and teaching assistant
  PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  
  
• 11.2017 - 01.2018
  Sessional lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  
  
• 11-2009 - 01.2013
  Research assistant, after 03.2012: Project coordinator at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Marburg, Germany
  
  
• 06.2010 - 02.2012
  Student assistant & Sessional lecturer at the Institute for Poitical Studies, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany

Education and Qualifications

• 2017
  PhD in Political Science
  Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  
  
• 2011
  Magister Artium in Political Science, History & Philosophy (Master's equivalent)
  Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany
  
  
• 2009
  Certificate of Political Studies (Erasmus student)
  Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble, France

Research focus

• Federalism and Intergovernmental relations
• Comparative politics
• Public Policy with a focus on: health policy, education policy and fiscal policy
• Countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, USA, Belgium

Books

Schnabel Johanna. 2020. Managing Interdependencies in Federal Systems.
Intergovernmental Councils and the Making of Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Braun, Dietmar, Christian Ruiz-Palmero, and Johanna Schnabel. 2017. Consolidation
Policies in Federal States. Conflicts and Solutions, London/New York: Routledge.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Schnabel, Johanna and Yvonne Hegele. forthcoming. "Explaining Intergovernmental Coordination during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses in Australia, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland". Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Hegele, Yvonne and Johanna Schnabel. 2021. "Federalism and the management of the
COVID-19 crisis: Centralisation, decentralisation and (non-)coordination". West European
Politics (online first). Link

Schnabel, Johanna. 2019. “Fiscal Consolidation in Federal Belgium: Collective Action
Problem and Solutions”. Politics of the Low Countries, 1(2), 120–140. Link

Schnabel, Johanna and Sean Mueller. 2017. “Vertical Influence or Horizontal Coordination?
The Purpose of Intergovernmental Councils in Switzerland”. Regional & Federal Studies 27
(5), 549–572. Link

Schnabel, Johanna. 2017. “Committed to Coordination? Intergovernmental Councils as a
Federal Safeguard”. Swiss Political Science Review 23 (2). 191–206. Link

Book chapters, editorials, blog posts

Schnabel, Johanna. 2020. “The COVID-19 Crisis and German Federalism”. Cuadernos
Manuel Giménez Abad, 20, 71–74.

Schnabel, Johanna (2020). “Ersetzt die KdK den Ständerat? Wie die Kantone in
Bundesbern mitbestimmen”. DeFacto, 15.12.2020. Link

Schnabel, Johanna (2020): “Die Konferenz der Kantonsregierungen als der bessere
Ständerat? Territoriale Mitbestimmung im schweizerischen Föderalismus”, in: Mueller, Sean
& Adrian Vatter (Hrsg.): Der Ständerat. Zweite Kammer der Schweiz, Zürich: NZZ Libro, S.
181- 202.

Hegele, Yvonne and Johanna Schnabel. 2020. “Die Mär vom Flickenteppich? Zentralisierung
und Koordination im föderalen Krisenmanagement von Covid-19”. DeFacto, 15.07.2020. Link

Schnabel, Johanna and Yvonne Hegele. 2020. “Covid-19 and Federal Dynamics in Germany.
Business as Ususal”. (Re)Imagining Politics in Times of Crisis (UACES Territorial Politics
Blog), 9.06.2020. Link

Schnabel, Johanna. 2020. Intergovernmental Councils and the Coordination of Public Policy
Making. Forum of Federations Occasional Paper Series, 45.

Braun, Dietmar and Johanna Schnabel. 2019. Policy-Making as a Source of Change in
Federalism: A Dynamic Approach, in: Behnke, Nathalie, Broschek, Jörg and Jared Sonnicksen
(eds.): Configurations, Dynamics and Mechanisms of Multilevel Governance, Cham: Palgrave
Macmillan, 199–115.

Schnabel, Johanna. 2019. “Intergovernmental Councils and the Stability of Federal Systems.”
50 Shades of Federalism. Link

Mueller, Sean, Johanna Schnabel, and Nathalie Behnke. 2018. “Der bessere Ständerat?
Regierungskonferenzen im Schweizer Föderalismus”. DeFacto, 9.02.2018. Link

Schnabel, Johanna, and Damien Wirths. 2016. “Classifying Cases in Federal Studies. An
Illustration of why Political Scientists Should Do More Cluster Analysis.“ Federal Governance
13 (1), 68–86.

Schnabel, Johanna and Maria Bertel. 2016. “Editorial Note: ‘Regions as Actors’.” Federal
Governance 13 (1), 1–6.

Work in progress

Schnabel, Johanna and Paolo Dardanelli. “Negotiating Conditionality: Federal Grant
Programs in Education and Health Policy in Australia, Canada, and the United States”.

Schnabel, Johanna, Bettina Petersohn and Dietmar Braun. “From Policy Failure to Robust
Performance? The Dynamics of Fiscal Consolidation in Federal States”. 

Book reviews

Swiss Federalism. The Transformation of a Federal Model, by Adrian Vatter, Abingdon/New
York: Routledge, 2018. Published in: Regional & Federal Studies 2019.

Constitutional Policy in Multilevel Government: The Art of Keeping the Balance, by Arthur
Benz (et al.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Published in: Swiss Political Science
Review 24 (1), 106–109.