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View article: Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023
Municipality‐Level Outcomes of Direct‐Democratic Votes in Switzerland, 1866–2023 Open
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. However, the lack of comprehensive data h…
View article: Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative Open
Direct democratic institutions are often introduced by popular vote, but there is little research on what motivates voters to support these new instruments. Using a unique dataset on the ideological positions of voters and members of parli…
View article: Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment
Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment Open
Existing research argues that malapportionment primarily favours rural areas, resulting in conservative biases of electoral systems. In this paper, we provide a new perspective on the study of apportionment processes by identifying the ins…
View article: Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation: gerrymandering and its discontents
Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation: gerrymandering and its discontents Open
Electoral engineering strategies in majoritarian electoral systems, in particular the possibility to contain insurgent parties by manipulating electoral districts for partisan gain, are key determinants of parties’ positions on the adoptio…
View article: Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension
Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension Open
Does landholding inequality undermine democratization? Recent contributions have challenged the argument that landholding elites oppose suffrage extension if geographically fixed assets are unequally distributed. We advance research on thi…
View article: Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems: How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias
Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems: How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias Open
Proportional representation (PR) electoral systems have become widespread because they are expected to ensure the representation of interests with small or geographically inefficiently distributed voter bases. Yet in reality, most PR syste…
View article: Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development Open
Do ethnic majorities and minorities have diverging preferences for fiscal capacity? Do these preferences converge during national emergencies such as interstate war? In this paper, we provide evidence from a natural experiment to demonstra…
View article: Replication Data for: Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development
Replication Data for: Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development Open
Do ethnic majorities and minorities have diverging preferences for fiscal capacity? Do these preferences converge during national emergencies such as interstate war? In this paper, we provide evidence from a natural experiment to demonstra…
View article: International Trade, the Great War, and the Origins of Taxation: Sister Republics Parting Ways
International Trade, the Great War, and the Origins of Taxation: Sister Republics Parting Ways Open
The First World War was a watershed moment for the development of the modern tax state. Yet, whereas the tax yield strongly increased in this period, little is known about how the tax mix changed, in particular regarding the turn to direct…
View article: Replication Data for: Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems. How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias
Replication Data for: Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems. How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias Open
Proportional representation (PR) electoral systems have grown widespread because they are expected to ensure the representation of interests with small or geographically inefficiently distributed voter bases. Yet in reality, most PR system…
View article: Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers’ Capacity to Act
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers’ Capacity to Act Open
Despite decades of growing engagement, there are still questions about the effectiveness of transnational private regulation in labour standards to improve employee welfare in global production networks. The literature shows that some impr…
View article: Does war exposure increase support for state penetration? Evidence from a natural experiment
Does war exposure increase support for state penetration? Evidence from a natural experiment Open
Does war exposure increase popular support for state penetration or are changes in taxation and economic intervention primarily elite-driven? Existing research rests mainly at the macro level and is therefore unable to distinguish between …
View article: Direct democracy, coalition size and public spending
Direct democracy, coalition size and public spending Open
This article contributes to the literature on direct democracy and public spending in two ways. First, we explore how direct democratic institutions interact with a specific aspect of the representative system, the size of the governing co…
View article: Replication Data for: Socialist Threat? Radical Party Entry, Electoral Alliances, and the Introduction of Proportional Representation
Replication Data for: Socialist Threat? Radical Party Entry, Electoral Alliances, and the Introduction of Proportional Representation Open
The replication data set contains the data and R code to replicate all tables and figures of the manuscript "Socialist Threat? Radical Party Entry, Electoral Alliances, and the Introduction of Proportional Representation", forthcoming at A…
View article: Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation
Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation Open
Analyzing the voting behavior of Swiss members of parliament (MP) using newly collected individual, district, and cantonal level data, we show that both electoral disproportionalities and the insurgent parties’ electoral potential are impo…
View article: No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation
No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation Open
The nineteenth century marked the founding period of modern public finance. We examine the domestic and non‐war related determinants of direct taxation in this early democratic period and in a state building context. We argue that the reas…
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