Political Science

Klaudia Wegschaider

External Postdoctoral Associate (University of Vienna)

Klaudia Wegschaider is an external fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral reforms, especially enfranchisement. Methodologically, she is primarily a qualitative researcher, combining case studies with quantitative and experimental methods. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and other outlets.

Steven Wilkinson

Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Steven I. Wilkinson (Ph.D., MIT) is dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is the Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and professor of political science and international affairs at Yale University. Prior to taking up the FAS dean position in January 2025 he served as Henry R.

Itamar Yakir

Postdoctoral Associate

Itamar Yakir is a postdoctoral sssociate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and with Yale’s Identity and Conflict Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023.