Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Kriesi

The comparative politics chair at the Institute was created in 2002, with the nomination of Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi. The research projects conducted by Hanspeter Kriesi and his team deal with the comparative analysis of cleavages and conflict dimensions, political mobilization and political communication in the context of elections, referenda and non-conventional campaigns in Western Europe and Switzerland. The current focus is on the one hand on the transformation of conflict lines in national and European election campaigns and policy-specific debates (in a joint project with the University of Munich), and on the other hand on the analysis of actor strategies in direct democratic referendum campaigns in Switzerland (in the context of the NCCR Democracy. Further projects analyze value change in Switzerland, the Swiss elections in 2007, electoral campaigns in selected countries, and naturalization procedures in Swiss communes.

Staff

Nicole Staubli Secretariat	Dr. des Simon Bornschier assistant
Dr. Marc Bühlmann NCCR-member	Regula Hänggli, lic. rer. soc. assistant
Dr. des. Silja Häusermann assistant	Dominic Hoeglinger, lic. phil. member of a project team
Romain Lachat assistant professor	Linda Maduz, lic. rel. int. member of a project team
Katayoun Safi, lic. phil. member of a project team	Hanna Schwander, lic. phil. assistant
Bruno Wüest, lic. phil. member of a project team