Daniele Caramani

Daniele Caramani, Prof. Dr.

Full Professor / Ordinarius

Phone: +41 44 634 40 10

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Curriculum vitae

Daniele Caramani is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Zurich since 2014. He graduated from the University of Geneva and holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, where he has also been Vincent Wright Fellow in Comparative Politics. He has held academic positions in Florence, Mannheim, Birmingham and St. Gallen.

He is the author of Elections in Western Europe since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies (Palgrave 2000, with CD-ROM), The Nationalization of Politics (Cambridge University Press 2004) and The Europeanization of Politics (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has authored Introduction to the Comparative Method with Boolean Algebra (Sage, "Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences" 2009), which has been translated into Chinese and edits the textbook Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press 2017, fourth edition, translated into Italian and Croatian). He regularly publishes articles in scientific journals.

Daniele Caramani is Director of the Doctoral Programme "Democracy Studies" and Co-Director of the Constituency-Level Elections Archive which has received the APSA "Dataset Award" in 2012. In 2009-12 he was co-editor of EJPR's "Political Data Yearbook". Between 2006 and 2010 he was the editor of the "Swiss Political Science Review". In 2011 he has been the Local Organiser of the ECPR Joint Sessions. In 2004 he has been awarded UNESCO's "Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences".

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Teaching and supervision

Research Focus

Elections, electoral systems and electoral behaviour, political parties and cleavage systems, state formation and nation-building, comparative methodology, European integration, globalization, regionalism, and GIS cartography. Research follows a broad cross-sectional and longitudinal approach based on large quantitative datasets.

Courses

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

V-Nr	Course	Start / End	Date	Lecturers
3128	Politische Systeme und Theorien I 615-015a	from 18 Sep 2023 to 20 Dec 2023	Mon 16:15-18:00, Wed 14:00-15:45	Daniele Caramani
0645	CIS Forschungscolloquium 615G930a	from 21 Sep 2023 to 21 Dec 2023	Thu 12:30-14:00	Daniele Caramani
4569	9th Swiss Summer School in Democracy Studies - Democracy and Peace 615G918a	from 11 Sep 2023 to 15 Sep 2023	Block Course (11.9.-15.9.)	Daniele Caramani

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

2022
- Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele (2022). People haven't had enough of experts: technocratic attitudes among citizens in nine european democracies. American Journal of Political Science, 66(1):5-23.

2020
- Edited by: Caramani, Daniele (2020). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Comparative politics.
- Bertsou, Eri (2020). Conclusion—Technocracy and democracy: friends or foes?. In: Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele. The technocratic challenge to democracy. London: Routledge, 245-269.
- Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele (2020). Measuring technocracy. In: Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele. The technocratic challenge to democracy. London: Routledge, 91-109.
- Caramani, Daniele (2020). Introduction: the technocratic challenge to democracy. In: Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele. The technocratic challenge to democracy. London: Taylor & Francis, 1-26.
- Edited by: Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele (2020). London: Routledge. The technocratic challenge to democracy.
- Caramani, Daniele (2020). Technocratic representation. In: Cotta, Maurizio; Russo, Federico. Research handbook on political representation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 135-147.
- Caramani, Daniele (2020). Party systems. In: Caramani, Daniele. Comparative politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 231-251.
- Caramani, Daniele (2020). Introduction to comparative politics. In: Caramani, Daniele. Comparative politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-17.
- Esser, Frank; Pfetsch, Barbara (2020). Comparing political communication: A 2020 update. In: Caramani, Daniele. Comparative politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 336-358.

2019
- Caramani, Daniele; Manucci, Luca (2019). National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western Europe. West European Politics, 42(6):1159-1187.

2017
- Caramani, Daniele; Kollman, Ken (2017). The nationalization of electoral politics: frontiers of research. Electoral Studies, 47:51-54.
- Caramani, Daniele. Le incognite del 'tedesco'. In: Corriere della Sera, 30 May 2017, p.5.
- Caramani, Daniele; Kollman, Ken; Hicken, Allen; Backer, David; Selway, Joel; Vasselai, Fabricio (2017). GeoReferenced Electoral Districts Datasets. Ann Arbor: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.
- Edited by: Caramani, Daniele (2017). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Comparative politics.
- Caramani, Daniele. Parteien bleiben wichtig: Volkswille und Expertenwissen. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 10 February 2017, p.10.
- Caramani, Daniele (2017). Will vs. Reason: the populist and technocratic forms of political representation and their critique to party government. American Political Science Review, 111(1):54-67.
- Bertsou, Eri; Caramani, Daniele (2017). Technocratic discourse codebook. Zurich: Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Zürich.
- Esser, Frank; Pfetsch, Barbara (2017). Comparing Political Communication. In: Caramani, Daniele. Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 327-345.

2016
- Kübler, Daniel; Caramani, Daniele. Im Namen des Volkes. In: NZZ am Sonntag, 22, 29 May 2016, p.10.
- Wirth, Werner; Esser, Frank; Wettstein, Martin; Engesser, Sven; Wirz, Dominique; Schulz, Anne; Ernst, Nicole; Büchel, Florin; Caramani, Daniele; Manucci, Luca; Steenbergen, Marco R; Bernhard, Laurent; Weber, Edward; Hänggli, Regula; Dalmus, Caroline; Schemer, Christian; Müller, Philipp (2016). The appeal of populist ideas, strategies, and styles: A theoretical model and research design for analyzing populist political communication. NCCR democracy Working Paper series 88, University of Zurich.
- Edited by: Caramani, Daniele; Grotz, Florian (2016). Abingdon: Routledge. Voting rights in the age of globalization.

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