Daniel Bochsler πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

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Political Scientist.
Working on elections, democracy and authoritarian rule, ethnic politics, interested in Central & Eastern Europe.
Content multilingual
Websitehttp://www.bochsler.eu
UniCentral European University (CEU)
UniUniversity of Belgrade

This new article in #Democratization analyses elections in #Bosnia - Herzegovina, #Croatia, #Kosovo, #Lebanon, etc.
It identifies a new violation of the β€ž1-person-1-voteβ€œ rule. It can potentially undermine democratic legitimacy. It's not about the usual debate about #quotas, it's more severe.

And it entails a number of election paradoxes.

Thread.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2022.2157404
#polisci

A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem

The literature on consociational democracies has introduced an important distinction between corporate and liberal types of consociations. However, once we apply a deeper conceptualization of this ...

Taylor & Francis
#Toblerone #Lindt #SprΓΌngli #Swiss_politics
Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics

Who is an (ethnic) group representative? When do quotas or unequal representation ratios violate the democracy principle? A question hotly debated in #Bosnia and Herzegovina #Croatia #Lebanon #Kosovo.

My thoughts, now accepted for publication in #Democratization

In this article, just published in #WestEuropeanPolitics, Miriam HΓ€nni and me ask who benefits from the #retrospective vote.
Bad economy -> established opposition.
Corruption -> new parties.

For more nuances, read https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2022.2145743 #politicalscience #polisci

Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties

Democracies across the world have experienced the rise of new political parties. The dominant view of the model of (retrospective) economic voting implicitly assumes that the main beneficiary of el...

Taylor & Francis

The proofs are in:
A review chapter on election #forensics in #direct_democracy.

forthcoming in the Jahrbuch der Direkten Demokratie, ed. Nadja @braun_binder.
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Last in a trilogy of #openaccess articles, forthcoming in #Ethnopolitics.

- Here, I comment a court ruling by #Kosovo 's Supreme Court.
- I turn this into a larger argument about #consociational democracy, group #represenation and #ethnic #quotas.
- Similar problems lingering in #Bosnia.
@politicalscience #polisci @nationsandnationalism

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449057.2022.2093563

Checkmate? Corporate Power-sharing, Liberal Voting Rights and the Kosovo Supreme Court

After the 2021 parliamentary elections, the Kosovo Supreme Court annulled some 5800 votes expressed for three minority lists running for guaranteed seats of the Bosniak and the Roma minorities. The...

Taylor & Francis
In this piece (Journal of #Peace Research), we show that #powersharing more often leads to #democracy than to #authoritarian rule. But it depends on the #constitutional rules. (2/3)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00223433211037244

Instead of an intro, I share my last three articles (open access).

Four ways to avoid centripetal effects (#Democratization) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2020.1799980

#Politics #Bosnia #Serbia #NorthMacedonia #Romania #Ethnicpolitics #Elections

Four ways to avoid centripetal effects. How political actors escape institutional incentives in divided societies

For democracy in ethnically divided societies, political moderation is crucial. The centripetalist school recommends that countries should introduce institutions which offer parties and candidates ...

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