Publications
1. Monographs
2013
Kriesi, Hanspeter, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Esser, Jörg Matthes, Marc Bühlmann, and Daniel Bochsler. 2013. Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dataset (Varieties of democracy) - see also Democracy Barometer
2010
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies. Houndmills: Palgrave.
2004
Bochsler, Daniel, Christophe Koller, Pascal Sciarini, Sylvie Traimond, and Ivar Trippolini. 2004. Die Schweizer Kantone unter der Lupe. Behörden – Personal – Finanzen. Bern: Haupt.
Bochsler, Daniel, Christophe Koller, Pascal Sciarini, Sylvie Traimond, and Ivar Trippolini. 2004. Les cantons suisses sous la loupe – Autorités, employés publics, finances. Bern: Haupt.
2. Special Issues
2015
Bochsler, Daniel, Silja Häusermann, and Regula Hänggli (2015). "Consensus Lost? Disenchanted Democracy in Switzerland." Swiss Political Science Review.
2014
Bernauer, Julian and Daniel Bochsler (eds.). 2014. "Strategic Incentives in Unconventional Electoral Systems". Representation 50(1). PDF
3. Articles in peer-reviewed journals
2024
Bochsler, Daniel, and Miriam Hänni (2024). "Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing new parties in." West European Politics 47(2): 303-328.
2023
Bochsler, Daniel, Miriam Hänni and Bernard Grofman (forthcoming). "How proportional are electoral systems? A universal measure of electoral rules". Electoral Studies.
Juon, Andreas, Bochsler, Daniel (2023). "The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time? Territorial Autonomy and Conflict During Regime Transitions." Comparative Political Studies 56(13): 1996-2029.
Bochsler, Daniel, Bernard Grofman, and Miriam Hänni (forthcoming). "Fit for parliament: A new index of electability, assessing the electoral success of group-based parties." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
Appendix (supplementary materials)
Data appendix (Index of Electability)
Bochsler, Daniel, and Damir Kapidžić (forthcoming). "The voters you select affect the representation you get: lessons from ethnic electoral engineering." Ethnopolitics (comment on Pepić).
Bochsler, Daniel (2023). "Balancing district and party seats: the arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems." Electoral Studies 81.
Bochsler, Daniel (2023). "A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem." Democratization 30 (3):501-20.
Bochsler, Daniel (2023). "Checkmate? Corporate power-sharing, liberal voting rights and the Kosovo Supreme Court." Ethnopolitics 22(5): 589-605.
2022
Juon, Andreas, and Daniel Bochsler (2022). "The two faces of power-sharing." Journal of Peace Research 59 (4):526-42.
Bochsler, Daniel (2022). “Duverger and the territory: explaining deviations from the two-party-competition-law”. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 32 (3):501-20.
Bochsler, Daniel (2022). "Measures of vote-seat disproportionality for incomplete data." Party Politics 28(1): 174-183. 2022.
2021
Bochsler, Daniel, and Andreas Juon (2021). "Power-sharing and the quality of democracy." European Political Science Review 13(4): 411-430.
Bochsler, Daniel, Ellliott Green, Erin Jenne, Harris Mylonas and Andreas Wimmer (2021). "Nations and Nationalism Exchange on the Quantitative Measurement of Ethnic and National Identity". Nations and Nationalism 27(1): 22-40.
2020
Juon, Andreas, and Daniel Bochsler (2020). "Hurricane or fresh breeze? Disentangling the populist effect on the quality of democracy." European Political Science Review 12 (3):391-408.
Bochsler, Daniel and Andreas Juon (2020). "Authoritarian footprints in Central and Eastern Europe". East European Politics 36 (2):167-87.
Bochsler, Daniel, Adis Merdžanović and Davor Petrić (2020). “Turning International Intervention into Domestic Cooperation in Post-War Societies”. International Peacekeeping 27(1): 127-151.
Bochsler, Daniel (2020). "Four ways to avoid centripetal effects. How political actors escape institutional incentives in divided societies." Democratization 27(8): 1458-1476.
2019
Bochsler, Daniel, and Miriam Hänni (2019). The three stages of the anti-incumbency vote: retrospective economic voting in young and established democracies. European Journal of Political Research 58(1): 30-55. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel (2019). Bottom-up renewal of the Swiss party system. Regional and Federal Studies 29(3): 381-404.
2018
2017
Bochsler, Daniel (2017). The strategic effect of the plurality vote at the district level. Electoral Studies.
Bochsler, Daniel, and Miriam Hänni (2017). What Democracy Do We Want? The Problematic Focus on the Median Voter. Swiss Political Science Review 23(3): 270-278.
2016
Bochsler, Daniel, and Basil Schläpfer (2016). "An Indirect Approach to Map Ethnic Identities in Post-Conflict Societies." Ethnopolitics 15 (5):467-86.
Bochsler, Daniel & Schläpfer, Basil (2016). The normative trap in ethnopolitical research. Ethnopolitics 15 (5):493-6..
Bochsler, Daniel, Mueller, Sean & Bernauer, Julian (2016). An Ever Closer Union? The Nationalisation of Political Parties in Switzerland, 1991-2015. Swiss Political Science Review 22(1): 29-40.
Bochsler, Daniel, Marlène Gerber, and David Zumbach. 2016. "The 2015 National Elections in Switzerland : Renewed polarization and shift to the right." Regional and Federal Studies 26 (1):95-106.
2015
Bochsler, Daniel (2015). 'Bending the Rules: Electoral Strategies Under Mixed Electoral Systems.' Representation 51 (2):261-7. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel, Silja Häusermann, and Regula Hänggli (2015). "Consensus Lost? Disenchanted Democracy in Switzerland." Swiss Political Science Review.
Bochsler, Daniel, and Karima Bousbah (2015). Competitive Consensus. What comes after consociationalism in Switzerland? Swiss Political Science Review.
Supplementary material.
Bochsler, Daniel, and Simon Hug (2015). How minorities fare under referendums. A cross-national study. Electoral Studies 38: 206-216.
2014
Leemann, Lucas, and Daniel Bochsler (2014). A Systematic Approach to Study Electoral Fraud. Electoral Studies 35:33-47.
Bochsler, Daniel, and Julian Bernauer (2014). Strategic Incentives in Unconventional Electoral Systems: Introduction to the Special Issue. Representation 50(1), 1-12. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel (2014). Which mixed-member proportional electoral formula fits you best? Assessing the proportionality principle of positive vote transfer systems. Representation 50(1), 113-127. PDF
2013
Bochsler, Daniel, and Edina Szöcsik (2013). The Forbidden Fruit of Federalism. Evidence from Romania and Slovakia. West European Politics 36(2), 442-462. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel, and Edina Szöcsik (2013). Building inter-ethnic bridges or promoting ethno-territorial demarcation lines? Hungarian minority parties in competition. Nationalities Papers 41(5): 761-779. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel (2013). "Radicalizing Electoral System Effects on Support for Nationalist Hardliners." Nations and Nationalism, 19(1), 21-43. PDF
Appendix
Schneider, Carsten Q., Daniel Bochsler, and Mihail Chiru. forthcoming. "Comparative politics in central and eastern europe: Mapping publications over the past 20 years." European Political Science.
Codebook - Dataset csv
2012
Zollinger, Daniel, and Daniel Bochsler, 2012. "Minority representation in a semi-democratic regime: the Georgian case." Democratization 19(4), 611-641. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel, 2012. "A quasi-proportional electoral system "only for honest men"? The hidden potential for manipulating mixed compensatory electoral systems." International Political Science Review 33(4), 401-420. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2012. " When two of the same are needed: A multi-level model of intra-group party competition." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 18(2), 216-241. PDF
Dataset csv / Tosmana
Bochsler, Daniel. 2012. "Non-discriminatory rules and ethnic representation: the election of the Bosnian state presidency." Ethnopolitics 11(1): 66-84. PDF
2011
Bernauer, Julian, and Daniel Bochsler. 2011. "Electoral Entry and Success of Ethnic Minority Parties in Central and Eastern Europe: A Hierarchical Selection Model." Electoral Studies 30(4), 738-755.
Bochsler, Daniel. 2011. "It is not how many votes you get, but also where you get them. Territorial determinants and institutional hurdles for the success of ethnic minority parties in post-communist countries." Acta Politica 46 (3): 217-38. PDF
Appendix
2010
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Who gains from apparentments under D’Hondt?" Electoral Studies 29 (4):617-27.
Dataset Codebook Stata
PDF
Bochsler, Daniel and Pascal Sciarini. 2010. "So close but so far: party utility and party choice for left-wing parties in the Swiss national elections 2003-2007." Swiss Political Science Review, 16(3):373-402. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "The Nationalisation of Post-Communist Party Systems." Europe-Asia Studies 62 (5):807-27. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "The Marquis de Condorcet goes to Bern." Public Choice 144 (1-2):119-31. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Measuring party nationalisation: A new Gini-based indicator that corrects for the number of units." Electoral Studies 29 (1):155-68. PDF
Visit my page dedicated to the calculation of the standardised party nationalisation score.
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Electoral Rules and the Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Post-Communist Democracies." European Yearbook of Minority Issues, 2007/8 7:153-80. PDF
2009
Bochsler, Daniel. 2009. "Are mixed electoral systems the best choice for Central and Eastern Europe or the reason for defective party systems?" Politics and Policy 37 (4):735-67. PDF
Appendix
Bochsler, Daniel. 2009. "Neighbours or friends? When Swiss cantonal governments cooperate with each other." Regional and Federal Studies 19 (3):349-70.
Dataset (csv) Codebook
2008
Bochsler, Daniel. 2008. "Hawk in Dove’s Clothing: Political Trajectories of Political Parties in Serbia, 2003–2008." Central European Political Studies Review 10(4):292-319. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2008. "The presidential election in Serbia, January-February 2008." Electoral Studies 27 (4):745-8.
Bochsler, Daniel. 2008. "The parliamentary elections in Serbia, 21 January 2007." Electoral Studies 27 (1):160-5.
2006
Bochsler, Daniel. 2006. "Ethnic diversity, electoral system constraints and the nationalisation of political parties. A triangle model, applied on the Central and Eastern European countries." CEU Political Science Journal 1 (4):6-37.
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Bochsler, Daniel, and Pascal Sciarini. 2006. "Neue Indikatoren zur Bestimmung der arithmetischen Regierungskonkordanz." Swiss Political Science Review 12 (1):105-22.
Dataset
link
2005
Bochsler, Daniel. 2005. "The 'normalisation' of party systems and voting behaviour in Eastern Europe." Romanian Journal of Political Science 5 (1):53-74.
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4. Chapters in edited volumes and journals with no peer review, translations
2023
Bochsler, Daniel (2023) "Chocolate Democracy." in Patrick Emmenegger, Flavia Fossati, Silja Häusermann, Yannis Papadopoulos, Pascal Sciarini and Adrian Vatter (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel (2023) “Vorsicht, Abstimmungsdetektive. Wahlforensik in der direkten Demokratie.” in Nadja Braun Binder, Lars P. Feld, Peter M. Huber, Klaus Poler, Fabian Wittreck (eds.) Jahrbuch für Direkte Demokratie, pp.13-33. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel, and Andreas Juon (2023). "Democracy promotion through power-sharing: the role of mediators' constitutional templates." In Democracy and Democracy Promotion in a Fractured World. Challenges, Resilience, Innovation, ed. S. Geissbühler. Berlin/Zürich: LIT Verlag, 159-86. PDF
2019
Bochsler, Daniel. 2019. "Electoral systems in the making." In the Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, eds. Roger Congleton, Bernard Grofman, and Stefan Voigt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol. 2, pp.194-218. PDF
2017
Bochsler, Daniel. 2017. "Lo stemperamento dei contorni politici dei Cantoni svizzeri." In Il federalismo svizzero. Attori, strutture e processi, ed. S. Mueller and A. Giudici. Locarno: Dadò./
2013
Bochsler, Daniel, and Fabio Wasserfallen. 2013. "Switzerland: Moving towards a nationalized party system." In Regional and National Elections in Western Europe. Territoriality of the Vote in Thirteen Countries, ed. R. Dandoy and A. H. Schakel. Basingstoke/Houndmills: Palgrave.
Bousbah, Karima S. and Bochsler, Daniel (2013): "Quoren als strategische Falle der Demokratie", in Bürgerbeteiligung und direkte Demokratie in Deutschland und der Schweiz, ed. A. Auer and K. Holzinger. Schulthess. pp. 79-94.
Bochsler, Daniel, and Hanspeter Kriesi. 2013. Varieties of democracy. In Kriesi, Hanspeter, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Esser, Jörg Matthes, Marc Bühlmann, and Daniel Bochsler. Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Szöcsik, Edina, and Daniel Bochsler (2013). All jointly or everyone on its own? On fissions and fusions of ethnic minority parties. In J. Danero Iglesias, N. Stojanović and S. Weinblum (Eds.), New Nation-States and National Minorities. Colchester: ECPR Press. PDF
2011
Bochsler, Daniel. 2011. "Nediskriminativna pravila i etnička predstavljenost: izbor državnog Predsedništva BiH". Status Magazine for political culture and society issues 15/2011: 71-82.
also published in Godišnjak V(5), Univerzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet političkih nauka, 2011.
Cholova, Blagovesta, and Daniel Bochsler. 2011. "From big political change to permanent change of governments. The logic of 20 years of political party competition in Central and Eastern Europe." In Twenty Years After the Breakdown of Communism in CEE: Promises, Meanings and Implications of 1989, ed. N. Hayoz, L. Jesien and D. Koleva.
Bochsler, Daniel. 2011. "Let the people decide? Learning from Swiss direct democracy in a comparative perspective." Transitions (special issue, ed. Sylvie Ramel and Francis Cheneval).
2010
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Was bringen Wahlallianzen? Links-grüne Parteien und deren Listenverbindungen im d'Hondtschen Verhältniswahlrecht der Schweizer Nationalratswahlen von 1995 bis 2007." Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 41 (4):855-73. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Komünizm Sonrası Demokrasilerde Seçim Sistemleri ve Etnik Azınlıkların Temsili. " In: Seçim Sistemleri ve Etnik Azınlıkların Parlamenter Temsili, ed. E. Erkan. Beta Bası, Istanbul, pp. 37-64.
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Regional party systems in Serbia." In Party politics in the Western Balkans, ed. V. Stojarová and P. Emerson. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 131-50. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "The party system of Serbia." In Party politics in the Western Balkans, ed. V. Stojarová and P. Emerson. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 99-118. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "L'union fait la force: les apparentements de listes au sein de la gauche." In La recomposition de la gauche. Analyse du vote PS et Verts en Suisse, ed. S. Nicolet and P. Sciarini. Genève: Georg, pp. 361-394.
Bochsler, Daniel. 2010. "Horizontale Zusammenarbeit als Lösung des Problems der Kleinräumigkeit im Schweizer Föderalismus? Eine quantitative Perspektive." In Herausforderung HarmoS - Bildungspolitik, Föderalismus und Demokratie auf dem Prüfstein, ed. : Auer, A/Kübler, D.. Schulthess.
2009
Bochsler, Daniel. 2009. Neka narod odluči? Pouke švicarske direktne demokratije u komparativnoj perspektivi, in Puls demokratije, Sarajevo. (Serbo-Croatian translation of 'Let the people decide?', 2009.)
2008
Bochsler, Daniel. 2008. "A QAP Network Analysis of Intergovernmental Cooperation between Swiss Cantons." In Why Context Matters. Applications of Social Network Analysis ed. T. Friemel. Berlin: Springer, pp. 141-161. PDF
2007
Bochsler, Daniel. 2007. "How Proportional are Mixed CMompensatory Electoral Systems? Determining the Necessary Share of Compensation Mandates in Mixed Systems." In Symposium: Democracy and Its Development. Paper G07-01. Center for the Study of Democracy, Irvine. PDF
2006
Bochsler, Daniel, and Pascal Sciarini. 2006. "Konkordate und Regierungskonferenzen. Standbeine des horizontalen Föderalismus." Leges 2006/1:23-41. PDF
Sciarini, Pascal, and Daniel Bochsler. 2006. "Réforme du fédéralisme suisse: contribution, promesses et limites de la collaboration intercantonale." In Contributions à l'action publique. Beiträge zum öffentlichen Handeln, ed. J.-L. Chappelet. Lausanne/Bern: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes/Haupt, pp. 267-85. PDF
Bochsler, Daniel. 2006. "Electoral engineering and inclusion of ethnic groups. How to integrate ethnic minorities into Central and Eastern European institutions." Compasss working paper, 2006-38. PDF
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