Swiss Political Science Review

Understanding Referendums: The Comparative Politics of Direct Democracy. Matt Qvortrup. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 170 pp., 978–1–0353‐3243‐4 Click on the article title to read more.

➡️ Book review in SPSR: doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

Understanding Referendums: The Comparative Politics of Direct Democracy. Matt Qvortrup. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 170 pp., 978–1–0353‐3243‐4 Click on the article title to read more.

New book review published:

"Understanding Referendums", by Matt Qvortrup, reviewed by Robin Gut @zdaarau.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

@elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Bar chart comparing public perceptions of the EU across European countries. Switzerland stands out with one of the highest shares of negative views (very negative or fairly negative) and the lowest positive evaluations, similar only to the UK and Czech Republic. Most other countries, including Norway and Iceland, show more positive or neutral attitudes.

A milestone today: my first PhD publication, co-authored with Fabio Wasserfallen, is out in the @spsr.bsky.social. The article compares Swiss Euroscepticism—just as the title promises. The article is open access: doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

Latent Ideological Positions of Swiss Parties and Subsets of the Population Prominent theories of political representation consider ideology to be a central concept that links political elites and citizens. However, studies usually rely on different data and measures to oper...

🚨 New paper out!

Using data on direct democracy, the paper proposes an alternative estimation strategy of the ideological positions of Swiss municipalities in the party competition space.

It’s open access in @spsr.bsky.social .

Check it out 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Welfare Chauvinism among Voters and Political Parties: Exploring Preferences for Restricting EU Migrants' Access to Social Assistance in Switzerland The access of EU migrants to social assistance is highly politicised in Switzerland. However, we know little about parties' and voters' positions on this issue across the ideological spectrum. Using ....

📢 Publication alert:

"Welfare Chauvinism among Voters and Political Parties: Exploring Preferences for Restricting EU Migrants' Access to Social Assistance in Switzerland" by Angie Gago, @julianachueri.bsky.social & Mia Gandenberger

open access in SPSR 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shared Rule in Federal Theory and Practice. Concept, Causes, Consequences. Sean Mueller. Oxford University Press (2024), 272 p., ISBN 978–0–198‐88214‐5 Click on the article title to read more.

Now published in SPSR: a review of Sean Mueller's @seanstmllr.bsky.social "Shared Rule in Federal Theory and Practice" by André Lecours

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Party Politics at the Local Level: Introduction to the Special Issue This Special Issue explores the evolving role of local party politics in Europe and beyond, emphasizing the increasing autonomy of local governments and their growing influence in public life. Despit...

Out now! The introduction to our Special Issue on Party Politics at the Local Level with @rafreuse.bsky.social @christinajuen.bsky.social @martingross.bsky.social and Michael Jankowski
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💥Very happy & proud that the Special Issue "Party Politics at the Local Level" has found such an excellent home @spsr.bsky.social

Huge thanks to my co-editors @christinajuen.bsky.social @rafreuse.bsky.social @simonotjes.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social

A 🧵on the SI contributions:

Sweet Sixteen – reif genug für Abstimmungen und Wahlen? — Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA) Sind 16-Jährige bereit für Politik? Sind sie im Vergleich zu jungen Erwachsenen reif genug, politische Entscheide zu treffen? Trauen sie sich politische Entscheidungen zu? Wie oft informieren sie sich...

🗳️ Sind 16- und 17-Jährige politisch reif genug fürs Stimmrecht?

Laut einer neuen Studie von Robin Gut, Juri Ezzaini und Daniel Kübler: Ja.

Warum das so ist? 👉 Mehr dazu im verlinkten Beitrag:

📚 Erschienen bei @spsr.bsky.social

🔗 www.zdaarau.ch/de/sweet-six...

#Stimmrechtsalter16 #Demokratie

Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023 Switzerland relies heavily on direct-democratic institutions to decide on a wide range of political issues. Since 1848, more than 600 direct-democratic votes have taken place at the national level. H...

Excited to share our new article published in @spsr.bsky.social! We compiled Swiss municipality-level direct-democratic vote results from 1866 to 1944 through extensive archival work and filled some gaps in existing datasets up to 2023.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Fichier cumulatif de près de 50 ans d'une enquête électorale nationale de grande qualité !
@asso-afsp.bsky.social @spsr.bsky.social

🚨New Publication!🚨
Thrilled to share our latest article co-authored with @dannicafleuss.bsky.social
"Transmissions, Decisions, #Discourses – A Methodological Framework for Measuring and Comparing Democratic Innovations’ Policy-Impact(s)"
@spsr.bsky.social 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

Grateful to @spsr.bsky.social for publishing latest article:

Fleuß & Deppe: “Transmissions, Decisions, Discourses – A Methodological Framework for Measuring and Comparing Democratic Innovations’ Policy-Impact(s)”

Early view now online: doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

Thanks @dannicafleuss.bsky.social

SPSR's March issue is out!

Featuring a Special Issue on "Political Parties and the Use of Digitalization in Daily Politics" guest edited by Sergiu Gherghina, Oscar Barberà and Marco Lisi

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A huge THANK YOU | MERCI BEAUCOUP | HERZLICHEN DANK | GRAZIE MILLE to all the 224 peer reviewers who reviewed for SPSR during 2024! 👏

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Crises of European Integration: Joining Together or Falling Apart? Lucas Schramm. London, Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii + 303 pp, ISBN 978–3–031‐54747‐8 Click on the article title to read more.

My book review of @lucasschramm91.bsky.social book is out at SPSR.

This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the crisis-afflicted history of European integration. Compelling, empirically rich, theoretically very well grounded.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 New article:
Frédéric Gonthier (PACTE Grenoble) uses the novel “à la carte” (ALC) embedding regression model to analyze understandings of the "People" of protesters and supporters of the Yellow Vest Movement

doi.org/10.1111/spsr...

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Out now! Thijs Vos, Lianne van Kalken, Geerten Boogaard and I look at voting patterns in Dutch municipal councils and what shapes the importance of the coalition-opposition divide onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

FORS met à disposition sur SWISSUbase les données de l’Observatoire des Élites Suisses (OBELIS): 15 ans de recherche sur les élites politiques, économiques, académiques et administratives helvétiques. Découvrez-les ici www.swissubase.ch/fr/catalogue... @obelitessuisses.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

🚨 Publication alert
I am so glad my publication "Political Attitudes and Sexual Identity in Germany: Examining the Sexuality Gap" has now been published in Swiss Political Science Review.
While there is an increasing literature on political behaviour, research on...
#LGB #LGBTQ

Swiss Political Science Review: Vol 30, No 4 Click on the title to browse this issue

🔥 NEW ISSUE ALERT 🔥

SPSR’s December issue is out ‼️

Articles and research notes 💯% open access

With articles on EU-Swiss negotiations, parental leave policy, territorially differentiated policies, foreign policies of extreme & radical right parties, ...

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Glad to see that our article in @spsr.bsky.social has been (already!) assigned issue and volume. And it’s open access‼️

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Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality, Noam Lupu & Jonas Pontusson (Eds.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2023) Click on the article title to read more.

📚 New book review published

Ari Ray @ariray.bsky.social reviews "Unequal Democracies" (eds. Noam Lupu @noamlupu.bsky.social and Jonas Pontusson) in the SPSR

@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

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📣 Swiss Political Science Review now accepts Review Article submissions!

More information on how to submit your Review Article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Comme work with us at #University_of_Lausanne ! We are looking for a postdoc in the fields of #PublicAdministration and #AI The call for the job is here: tinyurl.com/346adhhz Please share widely. Happy to answer any questions.