Klaudia Wegschaider

Klaudia Wegschaider joins the Institution for Social and Policy Studies as a Democratic Innovations postdoctoral associate. Her work focuses on the causes and consequences of electoral reforms, especially enfranchisement. Methodologically, she is primarily a qualitative researcher and combines case studies with quantitative and experimental methods.

Wegschaider completed her D.Phil. dissertation on contemporary enfranchisement with no corrections at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation won the Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award from the APSA European Politics and Society section as well as an Honourable Mention for the Dissertation Award by the APSA Migration and Citizenship section. Her job market paper won the John Sullivan Award by the APSA Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behaviour section as well as the Best Paper Award by the NCCR Graduate Conference on Migration.

After Oxford, Klaudia started as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. She has also been involved in a long-term project on migrant electoral rights at the European University Institute.