Viola Lucas

GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-541
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-511

Email:

Biographical data:

• Studied International Economics (Diplom)and Political Sciences (Magister) at the University of Tuebingen, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo,US) and Sciences Po (Paris, France)
• Professional career:
  
  

  Since January 2011:

  Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies

• Member of the GIGA Research Programme 1 and GIGA Research Programme 2

Current research:

• resilience of authoritarian rule
• fiscal policy and state budgets
• economic development theory, modernization theory and transformation theory
  

Third-party funded projects:

• 2011-2012: DFG-project Stability and Change in Authoritarian Regimes: A Systematic Comparison of Institutional and Material Influencing Factors (together with Dr. Thomas Richter and PD Dr. Martin Beck)

Publications:

• 2013: Kapitel Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen, Informationen zur politischen Bildung, Heft 317, Naher Osten, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

• 2012 (with Thomas Richter): Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Golf: Herrschaftssicherung nach dem "Arabischen Frühling", GIGA Focus Nahost, 12, Hamburg: GIGA (pdf)

Lectures:

• "Dictators under Stress: An Empirical Analysis of Responses to Elite Crises" (with Thomas Richter and Ferdinand Eibl), XXII World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Madrid, 9 July 2012

• "The Backbone of Political Regimes: Analyzing the Budget Structure of Authoritarian Regimes in a Comparative Perspective" (panel chair), 4th ECPR Graduate Student Conference, ECPR, Bremen, 4 July 2012

• "Revealing Carrots within Authoritarian Regimes: A Quantitative Analysis of Four Different Means of Mass Cooptation" (with Thomas Richter), 70th annual MPSA Conference, MPSA, Chicago, 13 April 2012

• "Wie messen wir (eigentlich) Autokratie? Eine Diskussion und Evaluierung empirischer Alternativen" (with Thomas Richter), DVPW Sektionstagung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, DVPW, Marburg, 30 March 2012

• "How does mass co-optation contribute to the stability of non-democratic regimes? A quantitative analysis of three main mechanisms" (with Thomas Richter), 6th ECPR General Conference, ECPR, Reykjavik, Island, 26 August 2011