Rafaela Dancygier

Rafaela Dancygier is Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs and Director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University.

She specializes in the comparative politics of advanced democracies. Her research examines how social and economic divides interact with party politics and shape electoral alignments and political conflict in Europe and the United States. Her first book Immigration and Conflict in Europe (2010) explains how immigration regimes and local political economies determine whether or not immigration destinations witness conflict between immigrants and natives, between immigrants and the state, or no conflict at all. Her second book, Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics (2017) examines how minority groups are incorporated into politics and explores the consequences of this inclusion for the nature of party politics, electoral cleavages and gender equality.

Her articles – which have appeared in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics and elsewhere – cover topics such as hate crime, immigrant integration, radical right populism, gender equality, and housing crises and gentrification.