Lukas Haffert

New working paper!

I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity

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📢 Study out in Research & Politics!

We (@lukasbirkenmai1.bsky.social @wurthmann.bsky.social @msaeltzer.bsky.social) find that directly elected MPs talk more about local & deprived places than list MPs on social media.

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Am 11. März (19:30 Uhr) präsentieren @tbiebricher.bsky.social und der Herausgeber im Gespräch mit @sebfriedrich.bsky.social und @nschniederjann.bsky.social den Band OBEN RECHTS @suhrkamp.de im Literaturforum im Berliner Brecht-Haus: lfbrecht.de/event/oben-r...

You can't look at taxing the rich in isolation from broader attitudes towards taxing everyone else. If taxing the rich makes people perceive the system as more fair and so more willing to pay higher taxes themselves, it would definitely help close these gaps.

🔥 Just accepted for publication at AEJ:Policy 🔥

"Employing the unemployed of Marienthal:
Evaluation of a guaranteed job program"

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🗓️ Am 18.02. geht es in der @bbaw.bsky.social um #Staatsschulden. An der Diskussion nimmt auch unser Mitglied @andreabinder.bsky.social teil. Sie ist in der Jungen Akademie gemeinsam mit @sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sprecherin der AG "Geld und Gesellschaft": www.diejungeakademie.de/de/arbeitsgr...

⏰One week left! Deadline approaching for our Early-Career Conference on Political Dimensions of Urban and Rural Life (April 23-24 at LSE).

Submit your paper: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p

Looking forward to some great papers! ✨

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.

We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

There is nothing here! Unequal access to services and rural resentment in Spain The rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behaviour has gained increasing attention in recent years. One of the key unresolved debates in this…

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social !

It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment

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Lukas Haffert · Zwei statt 0,03 Prozent Die zwölf reichsten Menschen der Erde besitzen mehr als die ärmste Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung – bei oft lächerlich geringen Steuersätzen. Wie diese absurde Situation aus einer Nachkriegsanomalie entst...

Für die @blnreview.bsky.social habe ich das neue Buch von @gabrielzucman.bsky.social gelesen: blnreview.de/ausgaben/202...

Freue mich sehr darauf, dieses Paper über das Ruhrgebiet morgen im sozialwissenschaftlichen Kolloquium der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de vorzustellen.

Postdoctoral Position at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Deadline: 20 February 2026, 12:00 pm CET

🚨 Postdoctoral Position at the University of Konstanz 🚨

We’re hiring a post-doc for our @excinequality.bsky.social project on political elites and decision-making.

4-year position | Deadline: Feb. 20 | Start: Sept 2026

Please share widely 🙏

The ad is here stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/f...

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

Was waiting for the dominant wind direction!

Austerity and Populism A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE

Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p

Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

The hidden cost of low taxes on the super-rich The super-rich pay often pay lower total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people react - in their tax beliefs - when they find out about this?

The super-rich pay often pay *lower* total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people respond when they are told about this?

New empirical research from David Hope @lhaffert.bsky.social & @julianlimberg.bsky.social in our latest blog post

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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How does tax regressivity at the top affect public support for taxation? In this article, we run an information provision experiment in the United States with a quota-representative sample of around 4,000 people and randomly present respondents with factual information about total tax rates by income group. We find that informing respondents that the superrich pay lower total tax rates than other people not only increases support for raising taxes on the rich but also lowers support for taxing the middle class. Our results highlight an important hidden cost of tax regressivity at the top: if left unaddressed, it risks undermining public support for broad-based taxation.

New in @bjpols.bsky.social!

Dave Hope, @lhaffert.bsky.social and I show that low taxes on the rich have a hidden cost: They undermine public support for broad-based taxation. 🖋️ cup.org/45lgPwN

Empfehle Umstieg auf "Der Rest ist Geschichte" vom DLF.

🚨 History buffs of the Holy Roman Empire: We built an app to visualize rulers' itineraries between 919 and 1519 based on the Regesta Imperii. Thank you @albertwendsjo.bsky.social for all the help!

Explore here: carlmc.shinyapps.io/hre-itinerar...

Please let us know of any issues and feedback!

‘They don't know what they're doing.’ Epistemic divides and rural consciousness in Switzerland Established frameworks of rural resentment help explain right-wing voting behavior and anti-establishment attitudes, but they struggle to account for …

This is a really interesting paper about the role of knowledge claims in rural resentment and urban-rural divides more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... cc: @svenhegewald.bsky.social @juliusk.bsky.social @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social @pauruh.bsky.social @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social

3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.

Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.

more info below:

I remember listening to an interesting and in-depth conversation between you and Stephan Detjen on Deutschlandfunk.

🚨 ‼️ Five days left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP ERC project 👇.

Use your last chance to apply 😉

📚 Die DGfP und die SW&D vergeben 2026 erneut den mit 2.000€ dotierten Preis "Das politikwissenschaftliche Buch". Eingereicht werden können Monografien, die einen besonderen Beitrag zur Politikwissenschaft leisten.

➡️ Hier findest du die Ausschreibung: www.swud.org/wp-content/u...

How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023) | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023)

Why are cities and rural areas drifting apart politically? 🌄🌆

@indubioproreto.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social conducted a long-term Swiss study to find the biggest divide is amongst younger generations who hold very different views depending on where they grew up 👶 🔎

📢 📢 Call for Papers

IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop

Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social

🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford)

📍 University of Barcelona
🗓 June 29–30, 2026

Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026:
shorturl.at/oZTNy

#pleaseRT

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

I find it odd that academics strongly believe in the power of specialization, yet quality assessment at academic journals still relies on “peer review” rather than on professional, full-time reviewers.

A map of the Ruhr area showing the coal seams as lines. Major cities are marked on the map.

The Ruhrgebiet, once Europe’s largest industrial region, mined coal from the 13th century. By 1956 it employed almost half a million people, but within two decades the workforce had shrunk by two thirds. The last mine closed in 2018.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black #rstats #ggplot2