09/2017: Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award, Global State Revenues and Expenditures (GSRE) Data Set
Since 11/2015: Associate at GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
09/2013 - 12/2013: Visiting Scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada
01/2011 - 10/2015: Research Fellow at GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Education: International Economics (Diplom)and Political Sciences (Magister) at the University of Tuebingen, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo,US) and Sciences Po (Paris, France)
Current Research
Fiscal/public policy and state budgets
Resilience of authoritarian rule
Political and non-political violence
Economic development , modernization and transformation theory
Data and stata code for replication of results in the main text and the supplementary material for: Lucas, Viola, and Thomas Richter (2016), State hydrocarbon rents, authoritarian survival and the…
The GSRE 1.0 dataset is based on recently released historical documents from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and improves the coverage and accuracy of state budget data for most authoritarian regimes…
