Lukas Haffert

Foto: Die Junge Akademie / Peter Himsel

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

Research Areas

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)

Stadt, Land, Frust. Eine politische Vermessung

München: C.H.Beck, 2022.
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism and the Alternative für Deutschland

In: American Political Science Review, Online First, 2021.
Misremembering Weimar. Experimental Evidence on the Roots of German Stability Culture

(with Nils Redeker and Tobias Rommel) In: Economics & Politics, Online First, 2021.
Permanent Budget Surpluses as a Fiscal Regime

In: Socio-Economic Review. 17 (4), pp. 1043–1063, 2019.
War mobilization or war destruction? The unequal rise of progressive taxation revisited

In: Review of International Organizations, Online First, 2018.
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.
From Austerity to Expansion? Consolidation, Budget Surpluses, and the Decline of Fiscal Capacity

(with Philip Mehrtens). In: Politics&Society 43 (1), pp. 119–148, 2015.