Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard

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My research focuses on how voters’ economic interests and group identities shape their political judgments and responses to elite behavior. In my dissertation, I examine how group identities structure retrospective voting. Two papers examine how voters hold incumbents accountable for the economic performance of and the effects of policies on their social groups. Another paper uses language models to trace how parties’ rhetorical group appeals shape voters’ perceptions of group-party linkages over three decades. A fourth paper applies policy microsimulation models to a large survey panel to assess how consistently voters reward or punish incumbents for policy-induced changes in their pocketbooks.

Beyond the dissertation, I work on related projects on political behavior, including how mainstream party accommodation of the radical right affects voters, how legislators’ support for democracy depends on their party’s access to power, and how political cynicism shapes electoral accountability.

Primary fields of research

• Political behaviour and opinion formation
• Social identity and group belonging
• Political psychology and sociology
• Quantitative methods
• Quasi-experimental designs
• Causal inference with observational data
• Graphical causal models

Teaching

I've taught the compulsory Methods 2 and Methods 3 courses for undergraduate Political Science students, which cover, among other things, causal inference and quasi-experimental designs. I have also supervised master's theses.

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