Michael Dobbins is assistant professor of policy analysis at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and interim professor of public administration at the University of Konstanz. His doctoral thesis dealt with higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. His main areas of research are higher and secondary education policy and post-communist transformation processes. He is the co-director of the research project “The Missing Link: Examining organized interests in post-communist policy-making” funded by the German DFG and Polish NCN.