Klaudia Wegschaider

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.

In the 2024/2025 academic year, Klaudia was onsite as a Democratic Innovations postdoctoral associate. During her time at Yale, she completed her first book manuscript on contemporary enfranchisement. The manuscript builds on her doctoral dissertation, which Klaudia defended with no corrections at the University of Oxford. She was awarded 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.