Dr. Lars Lott
Dr. Lars Lott
Institute of Political Science
Chair of Human Rights Politics
- Mobile phone: 015228390400
- Email: lars.lott@fau.de
- Website: https://larslott.github.io
Dr Lars Lott is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science (Chair of Prof Dr Katrin Kinzelbach) in a joint research project with the V-Dem Institute on “Academic Freedom Index: An Innovative Resource for Research and for Protecting Freedom in the Academic Sector“.
Lars studied political science and public law at Heidelberg University and received his PhD in political science from Heidelberg University in July 2021 for his thesis titled “Rethinking Inequality under Autocracy. Parties, Citizens and Preferences“. His paper-based PhD thesis investigated whether and how the institutional foundations of autocracies determine economic and political inequalities, and whether and how these inequalities affect ordinary citizens in the short and long-term. His work has been published in Democratization, Contemporary Politics, Swiss Political Science Review, Comparative Governance and Politics, among others.
Lars is interested in authoritarian regimes, conceptualization and measurement of regime transformation episodes, political economy of inequalities, and determinants and consequences of academic freedom. Before joining the FAU in February 2022, Lars was research fellow and lecture at Heidelberg University and research fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. Lars’ current publications and his research can be found at his website.