Florian S. Schaffner

Florian S. Schaffner

DPhil Candidate in Politics

University of Oxford

I am a Doctoral Candidate in Politics at Balliol College and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. My research interests surround political behavior, political sociology, affective polarization, empathy, and direct democracy, which I study using surveys, experiments, and machine learning.

Interests
  • Comparative Politics
  • Political Behavior
  • Political Sociology
  • Elections
  • Popular Votes
  • Causal Inference
  • Surveys
  • Experiments
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science
  • Open Science
Education

  • DPhil in Politics, 2022

    University of Oxford

  • MSc in Comparative Politics, 2018

    London School of Economics and Political Science

  • BA in Social Sciences, 2016

    University of Zurich

Publications

Florian S. Schaffner (2021). Moaners, Gloaters, and Bystanders: Perceived Fairness of the United Kingdom’s 2016 Referendum on the European Union. Political Studies.

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