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Lukas Haffert

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Lukas Haffert

Member since 2018
born 1988
subject: Political Science

Contact
Universität Zürich
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Affolternstrasse 56
8050 Zürich

Tel.: +41 44 634 50 28
lukas.haffert@uzh.ch

Personal web page

Research Areas

  • Political Economy

  • Public Finance

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • since 2015

    Senior Researcher (Oberassistent) in Comparative Political Economy, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

  • 2017-18

    John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (United States)

  • 2014-15

    Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Florence (Italy)

  • 2010-14

    Doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (Germany)

  • 2012

    Visiting Researcher, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (United States)

  • 2008-10

    Master in Economics, University of St Gallen (Switzerland)

  • 2005-08

    Bachelor in Economics, University of Münster (Germany)

Activities

Publications

  • Die schwarze Null - Über die Schattenseiten ausgeglichener Haushalte

    Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016

  • Freiheit von Schulden - Freiheit zum Gestalten? Die Politische Ökonomie von Haushaltsüberschüssen

    Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2015

  • War mobilization or war destruction? The unequal rise of progressive taxation revisited

    (2018) In: Review of International Organizations. Online First

  • Permanent Budget Surpluses as a Fiscal Regime

    (2017) In: Socio-Economic Review. Online First

  • From Austerity to Expansion? Consolidation, Budget Surpluses, and the Decline of Fiscal Capacity

    (2015, mit Philip Mehrtens). In: Politics&Society 43 (1), 119-148