Jacob Edenhofer
Research Topic:
I am a DPhil candidate in Politics and a Clarendon Scholar. My supervisors are Federica Genovese and David Rueda. I work in comparative political economy, with a focus on climate policy in rich democracies. My thesis examines how electoral incentives and organised interest groups interact when governments impose costs today for benefits that accrue in the future. My other research studies how economic shocks affect support for the populist right and the political economy of state capacity. I hold an MPhil in Comparative Government from Oxford, where I graduated with distinction and received the Archibald Jackson Prize, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Warwick. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Economics Letters, the Journal of European Public Policy, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and in outlets including VoxEU, ProMarket, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Publications
Academic publications
- Edenhofer, Jacob, Maurice Hirt, and Federica Genovese. Forthcoming. "The Domestic Political Economy of Net Zero." Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Preprint: https://jacob-edenhofer.github.io/Domestic_Political_Economy_of_Net_Zero_2026.pdf.
- Zwar, Claudia, Jacob Edenhofer, and Christian Flachsland. Forthcoming. "How Do Climate Institutions Matter? Strategic Challenges and the Policy Process Effects of Climate Institutions." Journal of European Public Policy. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jf8ah_v2/.
- Edenhofer, Jacob, and Gabriele Gratton. 2026. Review of Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate, by Dani Rodrik. Economic Record 102 (338): 476–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.70046.
- Gratton, Gabriele, and Jacob Edenhofer. 2025. "The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies: Unstable Majorities and Delegation to Technocrats." Journal of European Public Policy, online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2576160.
Fetzer, Thiemo, Jacob Edenhofer, and Prashant Garg. 2025. "Local Decline and Populism." Economics Letters 252 (June): 112360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112360.
Working papers
- Edenhofer, Jacob, and Ben Ansell. 2026. "The Crisis of the Tax State Revisited: Artificial Intelligence, Business Conflict, and Digital Fiscal Capacity." SSRN Working Paper 7368958. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7368958.
- Konc, Théo, Jan Christoph Steckel, Jacob Edenhofer, Jens Ewald, and Thomas Sterner. 2026. "The Political Consequences of Energy Price Shocks: Evidence from Germany." CESifo Working Paper No. 12887. https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp12887.pdf.
- Edenhofer, Jacob, and Christian Flachsland. 2025. "Introducing the Climate Politics Framework (CPF): An Application to German Climate Policy." SocArXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qkbj3_v1.
Public writing
- Gratton, Gabriele, and Jacob Edenhofer. 2025. "Behind Populists' Anti-Technocratic Fervor and Its Consequences for Liberal Democracy." ProMarket, May 14. https://www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/behind-populists-anti-technocratic-fervor-and-its-consequences-for-liberal-democracy/.
- Fetzer, Thiemo, Callum Shaw, and Jacob Edenhofer. 2025. "Informational Boundaries of the State and the Energy Crisis." VoxEU.org, April 11. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/informational-boundaries-state-and-energy-crisis.
- Fetzer, Thiemo, Jacob Edenhofer, and Prashant Garg. 2025. "Nährboden für Populisten." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7. https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtschaft/2025-04-07/naehrboden-fuer-populisten/1151252.html.
- Alabrese, Eleonora, Jacob Edenhofer, Thiemo Fetzer, and Shizhuo Wang. 2024. "From Local to National: Austerity, Immigration and Support for UKIP." UK in a Changing Europe, November 5. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/from-local-to-national-austerity-immigration-and-support-for-ukip/.
- Edenhofer, Jacob, Théo Konc, and Jan Christoph Steckel. 2024. "In Germania la crisi energetica ha favorito la destra populista." Rivista Eco, October 18. https://www.rivistaeco.com/2024/10/18/in-germania-la-crisi-energetica-ha-favorito-la-destra-populista/.
- Fetzer, Thiemo, Jacob Edenhofer, and Prashant Garg. 2024. "Local Decline and Populism." VoxEU.org, September 15. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/local-decline-and-populism.
- Alabrese, Eleonora, Jacob Edenhofer, Thiemo Fetzer, and Shizhuo Wang. 2024. "Levelling Up by Levelling Down? The Economic and Political Costs of Brexit." UK in a Changing Europe, September 6. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up-by-levelling-down-the-economic-and-political-costs-of-brexit/.
- Flachsland, Christian, Jacob Edenhofer, and Claudia Zwar. 2024. "Not a Disaster, but a Missed Opportunity." Verfassungsblog, May 9. https://doi.org/10.59704/c7c2fa6836008b63.
- Edenhofer, Jacob, and Federica Genovese. 2024. "When and Why Compensation Can Unlock the Green Energy Transition." The Political Viability of Climate Policies. Progressive Politics Research Network research brief. https://politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-politics-research-network/research-briefs/pprn-research-briefs-archive-2/.