Research and publications

Research conducted at the Chair of Comparative Politics is empirical, cross-national, longitudinal and based on a wealth of different types of data. Research is structured with two “research areas”, research projects and the doctoral dissertations.

Research area on “Technocracy” (coordinated by Eri Bertsou)

Research area on “Multi - Dimensional Representation” (coordinated by Jelle Koedam)

Trust and Information Processing (Eri Bertsou)

Left-Right and Transnational Partisanship (Daniele Caramani)

Populism and National Political Cultures (Daniele Caramani and Luca Manucci)

“Comparative Politics” textbook (OUP) (Daniele Caramani)

Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) (Daniele Caramani, Ken Kollman et al.)

Multiple Party Identification: A New Conceptualization beyond Two-Party Systems (Lisa Carius-Munz)

Supranational Ideological Divisions in International Parliamentary Institutions (Siyana Timcheva)

Populism in Politics and Communication: A Comparative Study of Eight Countries, 1970-2015 (Luca Manucci)

The Causes and Consequences of Party Factionalism (Johannes Besch)

War, State-Formation and Socio-Political Organization: A Comparative Study of Sub-Saharan Africa (Karl Hampel)

Die Institutionalisierung der Parteiensysteme Lateinamerikanischer Staaten in vergleichender Perspektive (Sebastian Fust)

Direct Democracy in Latin America (Martha Sandoval)

Explaining Citizenship Light in Democracies (Francesco Veri) (second reader)

Completed doctoral dissertations

New Research on the Nationalization of Electoral Politics (Daniele Caramani and Ken Kollman)

Democratization and the Emergence of a Responsive Party System in Latin America (Simon Bornschier and Daniele Caramani)

Inclusion and Transnational Voting Rights (Daniele Caramani and Florian Grotz)

The Europeanization of Electoral Politics (Daniele Caramani)

The Causes & Consequences of Extreme Party Entry (Daniel Bischof)

Party Policy Diffusion in the European Multi-Level Space (Daniel Bischof)

How Politicians and Political Parties Communicate with Voters (Daniel Bischof)

Niche Parties in Office (Daniel Bischof)

PartyRep: MP Survey in European National and Regional Parliaments (collaboration with Chris Deschouwer et al.)

Introduction to the Comparative Method (Daniele Caramani)

Challenges to Consensual Democracy (Daniele Caramani and Yves Mény)

The Nationalization of Politics (Daniele Caramani)

Stein Rokkan’s Work (Daniele Caramani)

Elections in Western Europe since 1815 (Daniele Caramani)

Parties and Party Systems in Europe since 1945: A Bibliography (Stefano Bartolini, Daniele Caramani, Simon Hug)

Italian Elections Study (collaboration with Stefano Bartolini, Roberto D’Alimonte et al.)

Swiss Direct Democracy Studies (collaboration with Hanspeter Kriesi et al.)