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Anne Rasmussen is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen and the Department of Political Economy at King's College London. She previously worked at the universities of Leiden and Bergen.

She serves as the Chair of the Danish Political Science Association and is a member of the executive board of the European Consortium for Political Research where she chairs its publication committee.

Personal websites & Social media

https://annerasmussen.eu

https://advodid.eu

https://twitter.com/a_rasmussen

@annerasmussen.bsky.social on Bluesky

Research

Her current research examines political representation and democratic governance, with particular interests in interest groups and lobbying, citizen engagement, democratic dialogue, gender and politics, and the implications of social media and artificial intelligence for democracy.

She was the Principal Investigator of the GovLis Project, the first large-scale attempt to connect the study of political representation and interest groups by linking data on interest groups, public opinion, and decision-making across a large set of countries, funded by personal grants from the Danish and Dutch Political Science Foundations. Currently, she's the PI of an ERC consolidator grant: "Advocacy in Digital Democracy: Use, Impact & Democratic consequences" and a project on Social Media and Political Representation funded by the Danish Research Council. Previously her research received support from organizations such as the European Commission, the European Consortium for Political Research, the British Council, the European Science Foundation and the Danish and Dutch Research Councils. A list of current and previous research projects can be found here.

Published work

Anne Rasmussen is a co-editor of Interest Groups and Advocacy and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Public Policy, Acta Politica, & the Journal of European Integration. Her work appears in several journals, including:

• American Political Science Review
• Journal of Politics
• British Journal of Political Science
• Comparative Political Studies
• Science Advances
• European Journal of Political Research
• Interest Groups and Advocacy
• Journal of European Public Policy
• Party Politics
• Policy Studies Journal
• Political Behavior
• Journal of Common Market Studies
• West European Politics 
• European Union Politics
• European Political Science Review
• European Journal of Communication
• Journal of Legislative Studies
• Journal of Public Policy
• Journal of European Integration
• Scandinavian Political Studies
• Irish Political Studies
• European Integration Online Papers

Media & outreach

She has extensive experience communicating her research to a broader audience through written, audio, and television media, including the The Economist, BBC, TRT World, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), Politiken, Berlingske, Jyllands-Posten, Kristligt Dagblad, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Norwegian Aftenposten, and Radio France. She has also presented her research to several prominent institutions, including the UK and Danish Parliaments, and has served on (government) advisory bodies.

Recent examples include her research on political representation receiving coverage in The Economist (April 2026), and her work on gender and politics and democratic dialogue being featured in the Danish broadsheet Politiken (December 2025 I and II and August 2025 I).

Teaching

She has taught courses on interest representation and lobbying, political economy and inequality in representation, public policy, comparative politics, research design and methods, European Union politics and policy, and micro- and macroeconomics.

CV

Education:                

PhD (Political Science), Copenhagen University, Denmark, June 2006

MA (Political Economy - distinction), University of Essex, Great Britain, October 1999

BA (Political Science), Aarhus University, Denmark, June 1997

Languages:                

Danish (mother tongue), English (fluent), Dutch & German (high level), French & Italian (basic knowledge) 

Career:

Fellowships and Research Visits:

Editorial and review responsibilities:

• Co-editor Interest Groups and Advocacy (2022-current).

• Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of European Public Policy (2010-current), The Journal of Public Policy (2018-current), Acta Politica (2015-current) and The Journal of European Integration (2016-current), and Interest Groups and Advocacy (2019-2021).