Philipp Harfst

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Philipp Harfst (* 1973 ) is a German political scientist with a research focus on comparative political science . Since October 2019 he has been a substitute professor for political systems and system comparison at the Institute for Political Science at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Harfst studied political science at the universities in Göttingen , Paris and Berlin . After graduating with a degree in political science in 2000, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (2001–2003) and at the Center for Democracy Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2003–2008). In Lüneburg , he received his doctorate in 2007 with a dissertation on "Electoral system change in Central Eastern Europe: strategic design of a political institution" with Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Bernhard Weßels .

In 2009 he took on a junior professorship for methods of political science at the Institute for Political and Communication Science at the University of Greifswald , which he headed from 2009 to 2011. In 2013 he returned to Lüneburg as a visiting professor at the Chair for the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union . After the end of his time as a junior professor in Greifswald and an unsuccessful application in the appointment process for the professorship for political sociology at the University of Grenoble (2015), Harfst took on various visiting and substitute professorships until 2017, initially in 2015 at the chair for comparative political science at the University of Greifswald, and in 2016 on Institut d'Etudes Politiques at the University of Grenoble and from 2016 to 2017 at the Chair for the Political System of Germany at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg . In 2017 and 2018 he was employed as a Senior Scientist in the Political Science Department of the University of Salzburg , before he again represented the Chair for the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg until October 2019.

In the 2019/20 winter semester, Harfst took over from Michael Koß , who has meanwhile been appointed Professor of the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, to represent the Professorship for Political Systems and System Comparison at the Institute for Political Science of Engineering University of Dresden. The professorship in Dresden was after the retirement of Werner J. Patzelt unoccupied.

Harfst's research is devoted to the areas of comparing political institutions, changing institutions and their consequences, as well as comparative electoral research.

Memberships

  • 2006–2008: Faculty Council of the Faculty of Education, Cultural and Social Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg
  • 2009–2011: Head of the Institute for Communication and Political Science at the University of Greifswald
  • 2011–2012: Head of the Commission for Libraries and Digital Infrastructure at the University of Greifswald
  • 2012–2015: Speaker of the Comparative Political Science section of the German Association for Political Science
  • since 2014: Budget Committee of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Greifswald

Fonts (selection)

  • Government stability in Eastern Europe: the influence of parliaments and parties. Science Center Berlin for Social Research, Berlin 2001.
  • Electoral System Change in Central Eastern Europe: Strategic Design of a Political Institution. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15479-4 .
  • The political consequences of changes in district magnitude. In: Acta politica. 52/2016, No. 3, 2017, pp. 402–427.
  • together with Ina Kubbe and Thomas Poguntke : Parties, Governments and Elites: The Comparative Study of Democracy. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17446-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Harfst, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973