Sascha Riaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute (EUI)
sascha.riaz@eui.eu
Welcome! I am the Peter Mair Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute (EUI). Before joining the EUI, I was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (University of Oxford), where I remain an associate member.
I hold a Ph.D. in Government (2022) and Master's in Statistics (2020) from Harvard University, where my research was supported by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
I study political behavior, focusing on immigration, xenophobia, and political violence. Methodologically, I specialize in causal inference and quasi-experimental research designs. Below you find an overview of my research. If you’re unable to access any of the papers linked here, please feel free to email me.
Publications
- Racial Threat in Public Social Spaces (with Tobias Roemer). Forthcoming, Journal of Politics.
- The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination (with Nourhan Elsayed, Hanno Hilbig, and Daniel Ziblatt). Forthcoming, British Journal of Political Science.
- Do Autocrats Respond to Citizen Demands? Petitions and Housing Construction in the GDR (with Hans Lueders and Hanno Hilbig). Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies.
- After the Genocide: Proximity to Victims and Support for Punishing Ingroup Crimes (with Volha Charnysh). Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies.
- Local Newspaper Decline and Political Polarization - Evidence from a Multi-Party Setting (with Fabio Ellger, Hanno Hilbig, and Philipp Tillmann). British Journal of Political Science, 54(4):1256-1275.
- Out-group Threat and Xenophobic Hate Crimes (with Daniel Bischof and Markus Wagner). Journal of Politics, 86(4): 1147-1161.
- Does Inequality Foster Xenophobia? Evidence from the German Refugee Crisis. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(2): 359-378.
- Refugee Labor Market Access Increases Support for Immigration (with Anselm Hager and Hanno Hilbig). Comparative Political Studies, 57(5): 749-777.
- Natural Disasters and Green Party Support (with Hanno Hilbig). Journal of Politics, 86(1): 241-256.
- War and Nationalism: How WW1 battle deaths fueled civilians' support for the Nazi Party (with Felix Haass, Alexander De Juan, Carlo Koos, and Thomas Tichelbaecker). American Political Science Review, 118(1): 144-162.
- Local News Monopolies Increase Misperceptions about Immigration (with Hanno Hilbig). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(17): 4536-4558.
- Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees (with Hanno Hilbig). Journal of Politics, 84(4): 2288-2293.
Working Papers
- Shielding Voters? How Partisanship Shapes the Placement of Refugee Housing Facilities (with Jeremy Ferwerda). Conditionally accepted, Journal of Politics
- Limited Backlash? Assessing the Geographic Scope of Electoral Responses to Refugees (with Jeremy Ferwerda). R&R, Political Science Research and Methods
- Anti-immigrant Bias in the Choice between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice (with Maik Hamjediers). R&R, British Journal of Political Science
- Revisiting History, Reshaping Memory: The Effects of Confronting In-Group Atrocities (with Alexander De Juan, Julian Voß, and Anton Peez)
- Regime Loyalty During Wartime - Evidence from Nazi Germany (with Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, and Julian Voß)
- Type I Error Inflation in Unexpected Event During Survey Designs (with Joris Frese)
- Null by Design: Statistical Dilution in Immigration-Crime Research
- Experimental Evidence on the (Limited) Influence of Reputable Media Outlets (with Gary King, Bharat Anand, and Kiran Misra).
- The Politics of Crime Reporting: Electoral Cycles and the Distortion of Out-Group Crime (with Ashrakat Elshehawy, Arun Frey, Violeta Haas, and Tobias Roemer).