Yasmin Zysk

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Portraitfoto von Yasmin Zysk im WZB
WZB/Kathrin Kliss

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Visiting Researcher of the Research Department
Transformations of Democracy

Yasmin Zysk is a visiting researcher in the Transformations of Democracy unit, where she previously worked as a research fellow and student assistant. Her research focuses on autocratization and inequality, as well as historical German parliamentary proceedings. After her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, she studied Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her master’s thesis examined the effects of populist leadership on economic growth and inequality, with a focus on heterogeneity by ideology and autocratization status. 

Selected publications: 

Zysk, Yasmin/Meißner, Daniel (2026): "Verteilungsfragen. Zur Aktualität historischer Reichstagsdebatten". In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 2=Nr. 192, S. 13-16.