Monographies
Endogenous Electoral Markets and the Adoption of Proportional Representation. Engineering Parliamentary Dominance (with Patrick Emmenegger), under contract with Oxford University Press.
Papers and Book Chapters
2024
Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation: gerrymandering and its discontents (with Patrick Emmenegger). European Political Science Review: online first.
Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension (with Patrick Emmenegger and Andreina Thoma). British Journal of Political Science: online first.
2023
Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development (with Patrick Emmenegger). Comparative Political Studies, 56(9):1365-1397.
Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems: How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias (with Patrick Emmenegger). The Journal of Politics, 85(3):1123-1138.
2022
International Trade, the Great War, and the Origins of Taxation: Sister Republics Parting Ways (with Patrick Emmenegger). Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 28(4):585-603.
The social origins of Christian democracy: rural–urban migration, interest group preemption, and the rise of the Catholic workers’ movement. Socio-Economic Review, 20(2):687-710.
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers’ Capacity to Act (with Jean‐Christophe Graz and Jimena Sobrino Piazza). Development and Change, 53(4):912-937.
Direct democracy, coalition size and public spending (with Patrick Emmenegger and Lucas Leemann). Journal of Public Policy, 42(2):224-246.
Does war exposure increase support for state penetration? Evidence from a natural experiment (with Patrick Emmenegger). Journal of European Public Policy, 29(5):652-669.
2021
No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation (with Patrick Emmenegger and Lucas Leemann). European Journal of Political Research, 60(3):648-669.
War and taxation: the father of all things or rather an obsession? (with Patrick Emmenegger). Handbook on the Politics of Taxation, 32-46.
Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation (with Patrick Emmenegger). The Journal of Politics, 83(3):917-933.
Socialist Threat? Radical Party Entry, Electoral Alliances, and the Introduction of Proportional Representation. American Political Science Review, 115(2):701-708.
2019
When dominant parties adopt proportional representation: the mysterious case of Belgium (with Patrick Emmenegger). European Political Science Review, 11(4):433-450.
A Race to the Middle: The Politics of Interstate Cost Distribution and Welfare State Expansion. The Journal of Politics, 81(3):952-967.
Majority protection: The origins of distorted proportional representation (with Patrick Emmenegger). Electoral Studies, 59:64-77.
The Partisan Composition of Cantonal Governments in Switzerland, 1848-2017. A New Data Set (with Patrick Emmenegger). Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 25(1):1-18.
Taking the initiative: Direct democracy, coalition governments and welfare state expansion. Journal of European Social Policy, 29(3):446-459.
2017
Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism: A New Data Set for the Countries of Africa and Asia. Journal of World-Systems Research, 23(1):156-190.
2014
QCA, the Truth Table Analysis and Large-N Survey Data: The Benefits of Calibration and the Importance of Robustness Tests, COMPASSS Working Paper 2014-79.
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