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Dani Sandu

About Dani Sandu

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Fribourg, after graduating with a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in September 2023, under the supervision of Professor Elias Dinas.

I study social and political identities in political behavior, with a focus on former-communist countries in Europe. I use experimental and quasi-experimental methods and am also a skeptical user of text-as-data approaches.

My work has been published multiple times in Comparative Political Studies and other publications.

I am also working on a book proposal, based on my PhD thesis, which studies how authoritarian regimes use their monopoly over education to create enduring support for the regime.