Marlene Jugl is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Bocconi University. She holds an MA in Public Administration from the University of Potsdam and a doctoral degree in Governance from the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research lies at the intersection of comparative public administration, politics, and policy and focuses on the performance of governments and bureaucracies in different environments. She studies how public bureaucracies interact with politicians, citizens, and other stakeholders, and how societal, cultural and historical factors affect how governments function. Marlene is particularly interested in the effect of country size on the structure, stability, and performance of governments and public administrations. During her sabbatical in 2023/24 she works on the project "Rethinking administrative traditions". Further research interests include crisis management, vulnerability and learning, and bureaucratic reputation. Marlene was a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Technical University of Tallinn, and she is co-chair of EGPA's Permanent Study Group VI "Governance of Public Sector Organizations".