About

Philipp Harfst is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at University of Göttingen. His main research interests include comparative political institutions, institutional change and its consequences as well as comparative electoral research. His work has been published in Acta Politica, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, International Political Science Review, and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. His courses taught revolve around the areas of Comparative Politics, German Politics in Comparative Perspective, Electoral Research, Political Science Methods as well as Social Science Statistics. Philipp Harfst completed his doctorate at University of Lüneburg in 2007. Before coming to Göttingen in 2021, I held positions at the Universities of Düsseldorf (2000-2003), Greifswald, (2008-2016), Oldenburg (2016-2017), Lüneburg (2013 & 2018-2019), and Salzburg (2017-2018) as well as Technical University Dresden (2019-2021).

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democracy, Elections, Institutions, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Parties, Methods, Quantitative, Electoral Behaviour, Party Systems

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Analytical Politics and Public Choice
• Comparative Political Institutions
• Political Methodology
• Political Parties
• Political Sociology
• Political Representation