Lukas Haffert

Biography

Lukas Haffert is a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at CES. After completing his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne, he has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a senior researcher at the University of Zurich. His PhD Dissertation has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievements by the Max Planck Society and the German Thesis Award by the Körber Foundation.

During his stay at CES, Lukas will start a new research project on the fiscal policy of comparative capitalisms. In this project, he argues that comparative political economists typically analyze fiscal policy from a distributional angle. They thus tend to miss the allocational politics of fiscal decisions which can be very different from the distributional ones.

This information is accurate for the time period that the scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Senior Researcher, University of Zurich
• John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017-2018, CES, Harvard
• Visiting Scholar 2017-1918, CES, Harvard

Publications

• Lukas Haffert, Die schwarze Null - Über die Schattenseiten ausgeglichener Haushalte. (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016).
• Lukas Haffert & P. Mehrtens, “From Austerity to Expansion? Consolidation, Budget Surpluses, and the Decline of Fiscal Capacity,” Politics & Society 43 (1), 119-148, 2015.