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André Walter

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University of Zurich

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André Walter is an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on electoral politics, direct democracy, and the political behavior of ethnic minorities, as reflected in his recent articles. He explores themes such as landholding inequality, electoral district design, and public support for democratic initiatives.

Recent Grants

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Endogenous Electoral Markets, Party Entry, and Democratization

Open Date: 2021-10-01

Close Date: 2025-09-30

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Democratic Consolidation in Switzerland, 1848-1918: Suffrage Restrictions, Redistricting, and Direct Democracy

Open Date: 2019-05-01

Close Date: 2025-01-31

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Open Date: 2018-10-01

Close Date: 2019-03-31

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The Roots of Electoral Systems Choice. The Rise of Social Democracy, Multipartism, and the Shift to Proportional Representation

Open Date: 2018-03-01

Close Date: 2021-09-01

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Jean-Christophe Graz

Professeur de relations internationales

University of Lausanne

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Lucas Leemann

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University of Zurich

SWITZERLAND

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Patrick Emmenegger

University of St. Gallen

SWITZERLAND

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Articles (28)

Conclusion

Containment measures and electoral system choice

Designing districts for new PR systems

Distortions, coalitions, and support for PR

Electoral system choice in Belgium and Switzerland

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List of Tables

Neutralizing electoral threats in MR systems

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The most manipulative instrument of politics

The politics of district design in new PR systems

The politics of electoral system choice

Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023

Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative

Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment

Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension

Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development

Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems. How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias

Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation: gerrymandering and its discontents

Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension

International Trade, the Great War, and the Origins of Taxation: Sister Republics Parting Ways

Does war exposure increase support for state penetration? Evidence from a natural experiment

Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers’ Capacity to Act

The social origins of Christian democracy: rural–urban migration, interest group preemption, and the rise of the Catholic workers’ movement

Direct democracy, coalition size and public spending

Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation

Socialist Threat? Radical Party Entry, Electoral Alliances, and the Introduction of Proportional Representation

No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation

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Jean-Christophe Graz

Lucas Leemann

Patrick Emmenegger

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