I am a research fellow in the Transformations of Democracy Unit unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, directed by Daniel Ziblatt, focusing on reproductive rights, regime transformations, and computational social science. Furthermore, I am a research fellow at the German Bundestag for Anna Lührmann, the State Minister for Europe and Climate. In fall 2024, I will join the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS) of SCRIPTS, the Cluster of Excellence at Freie Universität Berlin, as a Doctoral Researcher. For my doctoral thesis, I investigate the interplay between reproductive rights and regime transformations. Previously, I studied Public Policy at Hertie School and hold a B.A. in Political Science from FernUniversität in Hagen and a Mag. phil. in Art History from the University of Vienna.

My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and I have presented my work at various conferences, including the ECPR General Conference and the APSA Annual Meeting.

My background includes conference program development at the United Nations with the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation and experience in the art and publishing industries. I am fluent in German and English and proficient in several other languages. I possess technical skills, including R and Python programming, Git & GitHub, MS Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and social media management.

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Research Interests

• Democratization and Autocratization

• Reproductive Rights

• Policy Process Research

• Computational Social Science and Text as Data

Peer-reviewed publications

Klatt, Nikolina and Blum, Sonja. 2024 “How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A comparative study of New York City’s pandemic school shutdowns.” In: Review of Policy Research (online first), 10.1111/ropr.12589

Klatt, Nikolina** and Böhret, Ines**. 2021. “Women’s Rights in Childbirth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A comparison of WHO guidelines to policies, recommendations, and practices in the US and Germany” In: Cross-cultural Human Rights Review (3):1-41, http://doi.org/10.52854/cchrr-51. ** contributed equally

Non-reviewed publications

Klatt, Nikolina (2024): “Zwischen Fortschritt und Rückschritt. Der komplexe Kampf um Frauenrechte weltweit”. In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 1=Nr. 183, S. 33-36.

Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa A./Ellger, Fabio/Klatt, Nikolina/Ngiam, Janice/Ziblatt, Daniel (2024): “Als Begriff umstritten, als Modell umkämpft. Was Menschen in Deutschland unter ‘Demokratie’ verstehen”. In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 1=Nr. 183, S. 20-24.

Klatt, Nikolina/Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa A. (2023): “Authoritarianism and Disinformation. The Dangerous Link”. In: The Loop - ECPR’s Political Science Blog, 09.06.2023.

Klatt, Nikolina/Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa (2023): “Zwischen Fakten und Fiktion. Wie industrielle Desinformation die Demokratie bedroht”. In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 2, Nr. 180, S. 32-35.

Klatt, Nikolina; Hellmeier, Sebastian and Ziblatt, Daniel (2022): “Politische Gewalt und Demokratie. Konferenzbericht”. In: WZB-Mitteilungen, H. 4, Nr. 178, S. 62.

Klatt, Nikolina. 2022. “Die Schliessungen des öffentlichen Schulsystems in New York City während der Covid-19-Pandemie – Eine Fallstudie zu politischen Erzählungen.” In: Facetten Politischer Kommunikation – Beiträge zum 18. Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation, edited by Lara Boden, Robin Schröer, Natalie Ryba, and Leon Becher, Shaker Verlag GmbH. https://doi.org/10.2370/9783844087567

Work in Progress

The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Policy Narratives. Analyzing the Impact of Roe v. Wade’s Overturning on Digital Discourse Using Machine Learning

Abortion Law and Democratic Backsliding

What Is Democracy (to You)? with Vanessa Boese-Schlosser, Janice Ngiam and Daniel Ziblatt

CV

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