Thomas Michael Klotz

Ph.D. Title: Bee policy in the Alpine region. Environmental policy measures to preserve bee biodiversity and promote sustainable beekeeping in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland

Dr. Thomas M. Klotz earned his doctorate at the Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Munich School of Politics under Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs, writing his dissertation on the “Save the Bees” referendums in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The political scientist has been a research associate at the Chair of Policy Analysis at the Munich School of Politics since September 2024.
He studied political science in Munich and Venice and headed the “Education, Higher Education, Culture” division at the Academy for Politics and Current Affairs of the Hanns Seidel Foundation for approximately four years. To date, he has held teaching positions at the University of the German Armed Forces in Neubiberg, at the dual universities of Baden-Württemberg in Heilbronn and Villingen-Schwenningen, and at the Munich School of Politics.
Thomas M. Klotz teaches, among other subjects, the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany, social and European policy, right-wing populist parties in Europe, and methods of policy analysis.

His research focuses in comparative political science include, in particular, direct democracy and party analysis.