Research

Published Journal Articles

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2026. Growing together or apart? Regional inequality and preferences for inter-territorial redistribution. European Journal of Political Research, In Production.

  • Bjarnøe, Camilla, Hansen, Jessen Kristina, Schraff, Dominik, and Thau, Mads. 2026. Flattering Social Groups: Do Warmth and Competence Descriptions Impact the Effectiveness of Group Appeals? Political Behavior. In Production.

  • Hegewald, Sven and Schraff, Dominik. 2025. Is the urban-rural divide affectively polarised? Comparative Political Studies, Online First.

  • Schraff, Dominik and Hegewald, Sven. 2025. Ethnic diversity and political trust at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. European Political Science Review, 17(1): 99–109.

  • Haffert, Lukas, Palmtag, Tabea, and Schraff, Dominik. 2024. When group appeals backfire: explaining the asymmetric effects of place-based appeals. British Journal of Political Science, 54(4): 1217–1238.

  • Ejrnæs, Anders, Dagnis Jensen, Mads, Schraff, Dominik, and Vasilopoulou, Sofia. 2024. Introduction: Regional Inequality and Political Discontent in Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(6): 1465–1493.

  • Hegewald, Sven and Schraff, Dominik. 2024. Corruption and trust in the European Parliament: Quasi-experimental evidence from the Qatargate scandal. European Journal of Political Research, 63(4): 1674–1685.

  • Schraff, Dominik and Pontusson, Jonas. 2024. Falling Behind Whom? Economic Geographies of Right-Wing Populism in Europe. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(6): 1591–1619.

  • Malang, Thomas and Schraff, Dominik. 2024. How differentiated integration shapes the constraining dissensus. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(9): 2878–2906.

  • Hegewald, Sven and Schraff, Dominik. 2024. Who rallies around the flag? Evidence from panel data during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 34(1): 158–197.

  • Schraff, Dominik, Vergioglou, Ioannis, and Demirci, Buket Buse. 2023. The European NUTS-Level Election Dataset: A Tool to Map the European Electoral Geography. Party Politics, 29(3): 570–579. [Data]

  • Schraff, Dominik and Sczepanski, Ronja. 2022. United or divided in diversity? The heterogeneous effects of ethnic diversity on European and national identities. European Union Politics, 23(2): 236–258.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2022. Asymmetric ratification standards and popular perceptions of legitimacy. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(3): 405–426.

  • Lipps, Jana and Schraff, Dominik. 2021. Estimating subnational preferences across the European Union. Political Science Research & Methods, 9(1): 197–205.

  • Lipps, Jana and Schraff, Dominik. 2021. Regional Inequality and Institutional Trust in Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 60(4): 829–913.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2021. Political trust during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rally around the flag or lockdown effects? European Journal of Political Research, 60(4): 1007–1017.

  • Schraff, Dominik and Schimmelfennig, Frank. 2020. Does differentiated integration strengthen the democratic legitimacy of the EU? Evidence from the 2015 Danish opt-out referendum. European Union Politics, 21(4): 590–611.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2020. Is the member states’ curse the EU’s blessing? Inequality and EU regime evaluation. Journal of Common Market Studies, 58(5): 1215–1234.

  • Schraff, Dominik and Schimmelfennig, Frank. 2019. Eurozone Bailouts and National Democracy: Detachment or Resilience? European Union Politics, 20(3): 361–383.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2019. Regional redistribution and Eurosceptic voting. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(1): 83–105.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2019. Politically alienated through low-wage work? Evidence from panel data. Swiss Political Science Review, 25(1): 19–39.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2018. Labor market disadvantage and political alienation: a longitudinal perspective on the heterogeneous risk in temporary employment. Acta Politica, 53(1): 48–67.

  • Emmenegger, Patrick, Marx, Paul and Schraff, Dominik. 2017. Gescheiterte Berufseinstiege und politische Sozialisation. Eine Längsschnittstudie zur Wirkung früher Arbeitslosigkeit auf politisches Interesse. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 46(3): 201–208.

  • Emmenegger, Patrick, Marx, Paul and Schraff, Dominik. 2017. Off to a Bad Start: Unemployment and Political Interest during early Adulthood. Journal of Politics, 79(1): 315–328.

  • Dellmuth, Lisa M., Schraff, Dominik and Stoffel, Michael F. 2017. Distributive Politics, Electoral Institutions, and European Structural and Investment Funding: Evidence from Italy and France. Journal of Common Market Studies, 55(2): 275–293.

  • Emmenegger, Patrick, Marx, Paul and Schraff, Dominik. 2015. Labour market disadvantage, political orientations and voting: How adverse labour market experiences translate into electoral behaviour. Socio-Economic Review, 13(2): 189–213.

  • Schraff, Dominik. 2014. Buying Turnout or Rewarding Loyalists? Electoral Mobilization and Structural Funding in the German Länder. European Union Politics, 15(2): 277–288.

Other Publications

  • Vergioglou, Ioannis and Schraff, Dominik. 2022. Keep calm and fall into line: How local referendum outcomes shape the losers’ consent. OSF Preprints.

  • Schimmelfennig, Frank and Schraff, Dominik. 2020. Does differentiated integration strengthen the democratic legitimacy of the EU? Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2020/11.

  • Schimmelfennig, Frank and Schraff, Dominik. 2020. Light at the end of the tunnel: Eurozone bailouts and satisfaction with democracy. In: Careja, R., Emmenegger, P., and Giger, N. (eds). The European Social Model under Pressure, pp. 555–566.

  • Emmenegger, Patrick, Schraff, Dominik and Walter, André. 2014. QCA, the Truth Table Analysis and Large-N Survey Data: The Benefits of Calibration and the Importance of Robustness Tests. COMPASSS WP Series 2014-79.

Topics of Ongoing Projects

  • Zero-sum beliefs in politics

  • The political geography of EU support

  • Transnational fairness and the legitimacy of supranational governance

  • The polarization of the urban-rural divide in Europe

  • How politicians appeal to social groups

Conference Participation

  • DPSA: 2021-2025

  • APSA: 2022

  • SGEU: 2022

  • Inequality Conference Konstanz: 2022

  • EPSA: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

  • MPSA: 2017, 2018, 2025

  • SVPW: 2014–2020

  • ECPR: 2014, 2018

  • 3rd International ESS Conference: 2016

  • ECSA Suisse: 2015, 2018

  • CES: 2015

  • 8th International Conference of Panel Data Users in Switzerland: 2015

  • PEIO: 2015, 2019

  • QCA Expert Workshop Zurich: 2013, 2015

  • PSA Comparative European Politics: 2013

Media

  • Media reports on place-based affective polarization in Denmark

  • Interview with Politiken on the rise of the far-right and German politics

  • EUROPP blog with Ronja Sczepanski: How our neighbourhoods shape our European and national identities

  • EUROPP blog with Frank Schimmelfennig: Does differentiated integration improve the democratic legitimacy of the EU?

  • The Economist: The satisfied stay at home, Aug 10th 2019

  • Spiegel Online: Wer seinen Job verliert, verliert das Interesse an Politik

  • EUROPP blog with Lisa Dellmuth: Do governments use EU funds to help buy votes in elections?

  • EUROPP blog with Lisa Dellmuth and Michael Stoffel: EU funding policies may be undermined by regional authorities using structural fund allocations to win votes at the local level

  • Eldiario blog with Lisa Dellmuth and Michael Stoffel: Los gobiernos regionales utilizan fondos europeos para ganar votos