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Substantively, my work focuses on migration and suffrage. Methodologically, I am primarily a qualitative researcher, but I also combine case studies with quantitative and experimental methods.
I submitted my book manuscript on the enfranchisement of immigrants, emigrants, and youth. A previous version was awarded 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. My other work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, and other outlets.
In 2023, I defended my doctorate in political science at the University of Oxford with no corrections. That year, I started as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. During the 2024/2025 academic year, I was based at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies as a Democratic Innovations postdoctoral associate. Since returning to Vienna, I remain an external fellow at Yale University. I have also been involved in a long-term research project on migrant electoral rights at the European University Institute.
Please reach out if our interests overlap.
- Electoral Rights
- Migration
- Party Strategies
- Direct Democracy
- Voting Behaviour
- Mixed Methods
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DPhil in Politics, 2018-2023
University of Oxford
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MSc in Migration Studies, 2016
University of Oxford
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BA in Political Science and English, 2015
University of British Columbia
Publications
All available open access
Working Papers
Available upon request
Klaudia Wegschaider, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, and Rainer Bauböck. 2025. Migrant Franchise Constellations.
Klaudia Wegschaider, Rainer Bauböck, and Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero. 2025. Incongruent Suffrage.
Klaudia Wegschaider. 2025. Episode Analysis in Historical Institutionalism. (developed as part of the 2025 Emerging Methodologists Cohort)
Leonardo Carella and Klaudia Wegschaider. 2025. The Anti-Cooptational Coalition: Introducing Proportional Representation in Two-Round Systems.
Leonardo Carella and Klaudia Wegschaider. 2025. From Galaxy to Party: Elite’s Party-Building Path to Proportional Representation.
Book
Book project: In my book project, I study the politics of enfranchisement based on in-depth case studies. This work builds on my award-winning dissertation. The book manuscript was workshopped at Yale University in May 2025.
Datasets
Available Open Access
Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider, and Rainer Bauböck. 2025. Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset. CADMUS EUI Research Repository. https://doi.org/1814/93661
Wegschaider, Klaudia. 2025. Replication Data for: The Effect of Simultaneous Proposals: The Case of Immigrant Enfranchisement. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YUCAWU
Teaching
Postgraduate Level:
Democratic Resilience
Instructor | Winter 2025 (upcoming)
Master Seminar | University of Vienna
Political Science Research Methods (quantitative)
Co-Instructor | Summer 2024
Master Seminar | University of Vienna
Suffrage Politics From Past to Present
Instructor | Winter 2023
Master Seminar | University of Vienna
Qualitative Methods in Politics
Teaching Assistant | Fall 2020 (Michaelmas)
Department of International Development | University of Oxford
Undergraduate Level:
Migration Politics
Instructor | Summer 2026 (upcoming)
Undergraduate Seminar | University of Vienna
Political Science Research Methods (qualitative)
Instructor | Winter 2025, Summer 2026 (upcoming)
Bachelor Course | University of Vienna
Bachelor Thesis Seminar
Instructor | Winter 2023, Summer 2024
Bachelor Seminar | University of Vienna
Quantitative Methods in Politics (Q-Step)
Teaching Assistant | Winter 2021 (Hilary)
Department of Politics and International Relations | University of Oxford
Comparative Government (Oxford tutorials)
Retained Lecturer | Corpus Christi College | Fall 2019 (Michaelmas)
Tutor | Oriel College | Spring 2020 (Trinity)
Tutor | Pembroke College | Fall 2020 (Michaelmas)
Political Sociology (Oxford tutorials)
Retained Lecturer | Corpus Christi College | Fall 2019, Winter 2020 (Michaelmas, Hilary)
Politics in Europe (Oxford tutorials)
Retained Lecturer | Corpus Christi College | Fall 2019 (Michaelmas)