Christina Isabel Zuber
Biographic Data
| ID | 300779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Isabel Zuber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuber |
| SIGNATURE | ZUBER C I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6403-7342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 357 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy
Prior foundational work has demonstrated that liquid democracy is normatively desirable under both egalitarian and epistemic conceptions of democracy. This article defends a concrete institutional realization of liquid democracy—liquid assemblies—as an innovative form of legislative decision-making. Comparing liquid assemblies to other innovative legislatures, such as Landemore’s generalist mini-publics or Guerrero’s single-issue legislatures, we…
Group identities and party competition
The rise of nationalist and populist candidates worldwide provides compelling evidence that parties win elections, not by appealing to voters’ policy preferences alone, but rather by connecting those preferences to group identities. This state-of-the-field article argues that party scholars need to integrate constructivist insights from neighboring fields to better understand the role of group identities in party competition. We review recent dem…
Reality or Rhetoric? Between-Group Inequality and the Use of Grievance Frames on Social Media
The concept of a group grievance—the unjust deprivation of a group relative to some real or imagined standard—plays a crucial role in theories of ethnic conflict. These theories expect group elites to frame a given situation as unjust, thereby motivating behavioral responses among group members seeking to remedy the injustice. To date, however, no large-N study has analyzed how elites communicate grievances. Small-N studies have looked at communi…
Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914
This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center‐periphery cleavages in that democratizing state presents an excellent opportunity to examine the influence of multiple competing principals on representatives' legislative behavior. Drawing on an original dataset, we test under which conditions repre…
Subnational principals and Turkish passports: Administrative inequality in German citizenship policy
This article analyses inequalities in the implementation of citizenship policy in Germany. In this key migrant destination, federal authorities decide on citizenship law but delegate its implementation to regional and local governments. Before a reform of 2024, national regulation required third-country nationals to renounce their prior citizenship upon naturalisation. However, frontline officials could exempt applicants from this requirement. Ma…
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset
As Europe’s parties realign around a new, transnational cleavage, this article turns back to a historical case in which national identity conflicts also coincided with profound economic transformation: multinational and industrializing Imperial Austria. While Austria is an important case for Lipset and Rokkan’s classic cleavage theory, they overlooked the long evolution of its party system pre-WWI. This paper introduces the Habsburg Manifesto Dat…
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
Regional and Federal Studies’ 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified in the last 30 years. Second, the approaches to studying this changing world have evolved through a quantitative and comparative turn. Regional and Federal Studies has embraced these developments whilst remaining faithful to i…
Does decentralisation turn minority parties into secessionists? Insights from Eastern and Western Europe
Whereas Western European governments have devolved political authority to minority regions, governments in Eastern Europe have shied away from using decentralisation to accommodate national minorities. This article assesses how these differences affect the secessionism of minority parties. The theoretical section argues that both programmatic accommodation (i.e. when governments adopt positions in favour of decentralisation) and institutional acc…
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate
How do nationalist parties attract votes? This article develops a novel supply-side explanation centered on status, arguing that nationalists succeed by combining group appeals to the nation with policy promises to improve the nation’s political and cultural status and the socio-economic status of its median member. Drawing on several original datasets, this expectation is tested on Imperial Austria in 1907, where multiple nationalist parties com…
Check Your Truth Conditions! Clarifying the Relationship between Theories of Causation and Social Science Methods for Causal Inference
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called truth conditions allowing one to separate causal from noncausal relationships. We argue that social scientists should be aware of truth conditions of causal claims because they imply which method of causal inference can establish whether a specific claim holds true. A survey of social scientists shows that this is worth emphasizing because many respo…
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America
This special issue provides the first internationally comparative analysis of regional immigrant integration policies. The introduction defines socioeconomic, cultural–religious and legal–political domains of integration, expecting regions to be most active policy-makers in the first. Regional politics drives policy orientations: leftist regions develop more inclusive policies than their right-wing counterparts, and Rokkan regions with strong reg…
Explaining the immigrant integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions: Sub-state nationalism and multilevel party politics
How do sub-state regions respond to immigration and what drives their policy choices? Combining the cross-national literature on citizenship and integration policy with the literature on immigration federalism, it is hypothesized that sub-state nationalism and multilevel party politics explain why some regions formulate more restrictive immigrant integration policies than others. Analyzing integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions d…
The second edition of the Epac expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition – testing for validity and reliability
This research note presents EPAC 2017, a dataset resulting from the second round of an expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition. EPAC provides cross-sectional data on the positions of (ethno-) national and mainstream parties on an ethnonational (also often referred to as ‘territorial’ or ‘centre-periphery’) dimension, as well as other important dimensions of political competition. The 2017 edition covers 222 political parties in 22 …
Reserved Seats, Political Parties, and Minority Representation
This article seeks to clarify the relationship between reserved seats filled through competitive elections, political parties, and substantive minority representation. It argues that the party affiliation of the minority representative moderates the impact of reserved seats on substantive representation since minority and party constituencies can cross-pressure a representative or, in the case of overlap, can allow her to cater to party and minor…
Liquid Democracy: Potentials, Problems, and Perspectives
T HE first pirate party was founded in Sweden in 2006.Since then, many have followed the example, and the non-governmental organization Pirate Parties International (PPI) now counts members from 43 different countries.Pirate parties have gained seats in local, regional (e.g., Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein), and national (Iceland, Czech Republic) parliaments, as well as the European Parliament.These parties are mostl…
Epac – a new dataset on ethnonationalism in party competition in 22 European democracies
Datasets in the field of ethnic politics still tend to treat ethnonational groups as unitary actors and do not differentiate between the positions of the organizations representing these groups. Datasets in the field of party politics differentiate between the positions of political parties, yet fail convincingly to conceptualize an ethnonational dimension of competition. This Research Note presents EPAC, a new dataset on Ethnonationalism in Part…
Ethnic outbidding and nested competition: Explaining the extremism of ethnonational minority parties in Europe
The classical outbidding model of ethnic politics argues that democratic competition involving ethnic parties inevitably leads to ethnic outbidding where parties adopt ever more extreme positions. However, recent small‐N studies show that ethnic outbidding is only one of a range of strategies available to ethnic parties. This article seeks to explain why some ethnic parties are extremist, whereas others adopt moderate positions. Drawing on the et…
Position, selective emphasis and framing: How parties deal with a second dimension in competition
This Special Issue aims to (1) theorise party strategies in multi-dimensional policy spaces; and (2) apply the theory to party competition in multinational democracies characterised by a salient territorial dimension alongside a more established economic dimension. The introductory article brings together recent contributions treating spatial and salience theories as compatible and policy spaces as two-dimensional to propose four party strategies…
Beyond outbidding? Ethnic party strategies in Serbia
The outbidding model of ethnic party competition predicts that ethnic parties adopt radical strategies to maximize support among voters of an ethnic group. In contrast, this article argues that ethnic parties have a wider range of strategies at their disposal. Integrating recent findings, ethnic party strategies are defined by the criteria of appeal and policy position as ‘static bidding‘, ‘ethnic underbidding‘, ‘ethnic outbidding‘, ‘lateral bidd…
Representative claims and expected gains. Minority council elections and intra-ethnic competition in Serbia
This article examines the first direct elections to minority councils in Serbia. It seeks to build hypotheses on the interplay between minority council elections and the overall patterns of intra-ethnic party competition in divided societies. Following an introduction to minority politics in Serbia, the authors analyse the campaign for the Bosniak and the Hungarian minority council. Evidence from field research suggests that minority council elec…
Ethnic party competition beyond the segmented market
The outbidding model of ethnic politics focuses on party competition in an ethnically perfectly segmented electoral market where no party appeals to voters across the ethnic divide. The power sharing model retains this assumption, yet tries to prevent outbidding through moderation-inducing institutional design. Empirically, imperfectly segmented electoral markets and variance of ethnic party strategies beyond radical outbidding have been observed…
Understanding the Multinational Game: Toward a Theory of Asymmetrical Federalism
This article presents a baseline theory of asymmetrical federalism in multinational states. Two arguments building on a game-theoretic foundation link central and regional elites’ strategic choices to questions of federal stability. The first argument concerns the creation of asymmetrical institutions. In a confrontation game between the center and national minorities credibly threatening to exit the framework, the center’s decision to grant asym…
Position, selective emphasis and framing: How parties deal with a second dimension in competition
This Special Issue aims to (1) theorise party strategies in multi-dimensional policy spaces; and (2) apply the theory to party competition in multinational democracies characterised by a salient territorial dimension alongside a more established economic dimension. The introductory article brings together recent contributions treating spatial and salience theories as compatible and policy spaces as two-dimensional to propose four party strategies…
Beyond outbidding? Ethnic party strategies in Serbia
The outbidding model of ethnic party competition predicts that ethnic parties adopt radical strategies to maximize support among voters of an ethnic group. In contrast, this article argues that ethnic parties have a wider range of strategies at their disposal. Integrating recent findings, ethnic party strategies are defined by the criteria of appeal and policy position as ‘static bidding‘, ‘ethnic underbidding‘, ‘ethnic outbidding‘, ‘lateral bidd…
Understanding the Multinational Game: Toward a Theory of Asymmetrical Federalism
This article presents a baseline theory of asymmetrical federalism in multinational states. Two arguments building on a game-theoretic foundation link central and regional elites’ strategic choices to questions of federal stability. The first argument concerns the creation of asymmetrical institutions. In a confrontation game between the center and national minorities credibly threatening to exit the framework, the center’s decision to grant asym…
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America
This special issue provides the first internationally comparative analysis of regional immigrant integration policies. The introduction defines socioeconomic, cultural–religious and legal–political domains of integration, expecting regions to be most active policy-makers in the first. Regional politics drives policy orientations: leftist regions develop more inclusive policies than their right-wing counterparts, and Rokkan regions with strong reg…
Epac – a new dataset on ethnonationalism in party competition in 22 European democracies
Datasets in the field of ethnic politics still tend to treat ethnonational groups as unitary actors and do not differentiate between the positions of the organizations representing these groups. Datasets in the field of party politics differentiate between the positions of political parties, yet fail convincingly to conceptualize an ethnonational dimension of competition. This Research Note presents EPAC, a new dataset on Ethnonationalism in Part…
Ethnic outbidding and nested competition: Explaining the extremism of ethnonational minority parties in Europe
The classical outbidding model of ethnic politics argues that democratic competition involving ethnic parties inevitably leads to ethnic outbidding where parties adopt ever more extreme positions. However, recent small‐N studies show that ethnic outbidding is only one of a range of strategies available to ethnic parties. This article seeks to explain why some ethnic parties are extremist, whereas others adopt moderate positions. Drawing on the et…
Liquid Democracy: Potentials, Problems, and Perspectives
T HE first pirate party was founded in Sweden in 2006.Since then, many have followed the example, and the non-governmental organization Pirate Parties International (PPI) now counts members from 43 different countries.Pirate parties have gained seats in local, regional (e.g., Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein), and national (Iceland, Czech Republic) parliaments, as well as the European Parliament.These parties are mostl…
Ethnic party competition beyond the segmented market
The outbidding model of ethnic politics focuses on party competition in an ethnically perfectly segmented electoral market where no party appeals to voters across the ethnic divide. The power sharing model retains this assumption, yet tries to prevent outbidding through moderation-inducing institutional design. Empirically, imperfectly segmented electoral markets and variance of ethnic party strategies beyond radical outbidding have been observed…
Reserved Seats, Political Parties, and Minority Representation
This article seeks to clarify the relationship between reserved seats filled through competitive elections, political parties, and substantive minority representation. It argues that the party affiliation of the minority representative moderates the impact of reserved seats on substantive representation since minority and party constituencies can cross-pressure a representative or, in the case of overlap, can allow her to cater to party and minor…
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate
How do nationalist parties attract votes? This article develops a novel supply-side explanation centered on status, arguing that nationalists succeed by combining group appeals to the nation with policy promises to improve the nation’s political and cultural status and the socio-economic status of its median member. Drawing on several original datasets, this expectation is tested on Imperial Austria in 1907, where multiple nationalist parties com…
Explaining the immigrant integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions: Sub-state nationalism and multilevel party politics
How do sub-state regions respond to immigration and what drives their policy choices? Combining the cross-national literature on citizenship and integration policy with the literature on immigration federalism, it is hypothesized that sub-state nationalism and multilevel party politics explain why some regions formulate more restrictive immigrant integration policies than others. Analyzing integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions d…
The second edition of the Epac expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition – testing for validity and reliability
This research note presents EPAC 2017, a dataset resulting from the second round of an expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition. EPAC provides cross-sectional data on the positions of (ethno-) national and mainstream parties on an ethnonational (also often referred to as ‘territorial’ or ‘centre-periphery’) dimension, as well as other important dimensions of political competition. The 2017 edition covers 222 political parties in 22 …
Check Your Truth Conditions! Clarifying the Relationship between Theories of Causation and Social Science Methods for Causal Inference
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called truth conditions allowing one to separate causal from noncausal relationships. We argue that social scientists should be aware of truth conditions of causal claims because they imply which method of causal inference can establish whether a specific claim holds true. A survey of social scientists shows that this is worth emphasizing because many respo…
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
Regional and Federal Studies’ 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified in the last 30 years. Second, the approaches to studying this changing world have evolved through a quantitative and comparative turn. Regional and Federal Studies has embraced these developments whilst remaining faithful to i…
Representative claims and expected gains. Minority council elections and intra-ethnic competition in Serbia
This article examines the first direct elections to minority councils in Serbia. It seeks to build hypotheses on the interplay between minority council elections and the overall patterns of intra-ethnic party competition in divided societies. Following an introduction to minority politics in Serbia, the authors analyse the campaign for the Bosniak and the Hungarian minority council. Evidence from field research suggests that minority council elec…
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset
As Europe’s parties realign around a new, transnational cleavage, this article turns back to a historical case in which national identity conflicts also coincided with profound economic transformation: multinational and industrializing Imperial Austria. While Austria is an important case for Lipset and Rokkan’s classic cleavage theory, they overlooked the long evolution of its party system pre-WWI. This paper introduces the Habsburg Manifesto Dat…
Subnational principals and Turkish passports: Administrative inequality in German citizenship policy
This article analyses inequalities in the implementation of citizenship policy in Germany. In this key migrant destination, federal authorities decide on citizenship law but delegate its implementation to regional and local governments. Before a reform of 2024, national regulation required third-country nationals to renounce their prior citizenship upon naturalisation. However, frontline officials could exempt applicants from this requirement. Ma…
Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914
This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center‐periphery cleavages in that democratizing state presents an excellent opportunity to examine the influence of multiple competing principals on representatives' legislative behavior. Drawing on an original dataset, we test under which conditions repre…
Understanding the Multinational Game: Toward a Theory of Asymmetrical Federalism
This article presents a baseline theory of asymmetrical federalism in multinational states. Two arguments building on a game-theoretic foundation link central and regional elites’ strategic choices to questions of federal stability. The first argument concerns the creation of asymmetrical institutions. In a confrontation game between the center and national minorities credibly threatening to exit the framework, the center’s decision to grant asym…
Ethnic party competition beyond the segmented market
The outbidding model of ethnic politics focuses on party competition in an ethnically perfectly segmented electoral market where no party appeals to voters across the ethnic divide. The power sharing model retains this assumption, yet tries to prevent outbidding through moderation-inducing institutional design. Empirically, imperfectly segmented electoral markets and variance of ethnic party strategies beyond radical outbidding have been observed…
Beyond outbidding? Ethnic party strategies in Serbia
The outbidding model of ethnic party competition predicts that ethnic parties adopt radical strategies to maximize support among voters of an ethnic group. In contrast, this article argues that ethnic parties have a wider range of strategies at their disposal. Integrating recent findings, ethnic party strategies are defined by the criteria of appeal and policy position as ‘static bidding‘, ‘ethnic underbidding‘, ‘ethnic outbidding‘, ‘lateral bidd…
Representative claims and expected gains. Minority council elections and intra-ethnic competition in Serbia
This article examines the first direct elections to minority councils in Serbia. It seeks to build hypotheses on the interplay between minority council elections and the overall patterns of intra-ethnic party competition in divided societies. Following an introduction to minority politics in Serbia, the authors analyse the campaign for the Bosniak and the Hungarian minority council. Evidence from field research suggests that minority council elec…
Reserved Seats, Political Parties, and Minority Representation
This article seeks to clarify the relationship between reserved seats filled through competitive elections, political parties, and substantive minority representation. It argues that the party affiliation of the minority representative moderates the impact of reserved seats on substantive representation since minority and party constituencies can cross-pressure a representative or, in the case of overlap, can allow her to cater to party and minor…
Liquid Democracy: Potentials, Problems, and Perspectives
T HE first pirate party was founded in Sweden in 2006.Since then, many have followed the example, and the non-governmental organization Pirate Parties International (PPI) now counts members from 43 different countries.Pirate parties have gained seats in local, regional (e.g., Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein), and national (Iceland, Czech Republic) parliaments, as well as the European Parliament.These parties are mostl…
Epac – a new dataset on ethnonationalism in party competition in 22 European democracies
Datasets in the field of ethnic politics still tend to treat ethnonational groups as unitary actors and do not differentiate between the positions of the organizations representing these groups. Datasets in the field of party politics differentiate between the positions of political parties, yet fail convincingly to conceptualize an ethnonational dimension of competition. This Research Note presents EPAC, a new dataset on Ethnonationalism in Part…
Ethnic outbidding and nested competition: Explaining the extremism of ethnonational minority parties in Europe
The classical outbidding model of ethnic politics argues that democratic competition involving ethnic parties inevitably leads to ethnic outbidding where parties adopt ever more extreme positions. However, recent small‐N studies show that ethnic outbidding is only one of a range of strategies available to ethnic parties. This article seeks to explain why some ethnic parties are extremist, whereas others adopt moderate positions. Drawing on the et…
Position, selective emphasis and framing: How parties deal with a second dimension in competition
This Special Issue aims to (1) theorise party strategies in multi-dimensional policy spaces; and (2) apply the theory to party competition in multinational democracies characterised by a salient territorial dimension alongside a more established economic dimension. The introductory article brings together recent contributions treating spatial and salience theories as compatible and policy spaces as two-dimensional to propose four party strategies…
The second edition of the Epac expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition – testing for validity and reliability
This research note presents EPAC 2017, a dataset resulting from the second round of an expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition. EPAC provides cross-sectional data on the positions of (ethno-) national and mainstream parties on an ethnonational (also often referred to as ‘territorial’ or ‘centre-periphery’) dimension, as well as other important dimensions of political competition. The 2017 edition covers 222 political parties in 22 …
Explaining the immigrant integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions: Sub-state nationalism and multilevel party politics
How do sub-state regions respond to immigration and what drives their policy choices? Combining the cross-national literature on citizenship and integration policy with the literature on immigration federalism, it is hypothesized that sub-state nationalism and multilevel party politics explain why some regions formulate more restrictive immigrant integration policies than others. Analyzing integration laws of German, Italian and Spanish regions d…
Making regional citizens? The political drivers and effects of subnational immigrant integration policies in Europe and North America
This special issue provides the first internationally comparative analysis of regional immigrant integration policies. The introduction defines socioeconomic, cultural–religious and legal–political domains of integration, expecting regions to be most active policy-makers in the first. Regional politics drives policy orientations: leftist regions develop more inclusive policies than their right-wing counterparts, and Rokkan regions with strong reg…
Thirty years of Regional and Federal Studies
Regional and Federal Studies’ 30th anniversary offers an opportunity to take stock of the state of the discipline and of the journal. We make four claims. First, the multi-level nature of the political world has intensified in the last 30 years. Second, the approaches to studying this changing world have evolved through a quantitative and comparative turn. Regional and Federal Studies has embraced these developments whilst remaining faithful to i…
Does decentralisation turn minority parties into secessionists? Insights from Eastern and Western Europe
Whereas Western European governments have devolved political authority to minority regions, governments in Eastern Europe have shied away from using decentralisation to accommodate national minorities. This article assesses how these differences affect the secessionism of minority parties. The theoretical section argues that both programmatic accommodation (i.e. when governments adopt positions in favour of decentralisation) and institutional acc…
Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate
How do nationalist parties attract votes? This article develops a novel supply-side explanation centered on status, arguing that nationalists succeed by combining group appeals to the nation with policy promises to improve the nation’s political and cultural status and the socio-economic status of its median member. Drawing on several original datasets, this expectation is tested on Imperial Austria in 1907, where multiple nationalist parties com…
Check Your Truth Conditions! Clarifying the Relationship between Theories of Causation and Social Science Methods for Causal Inference
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called truth conditions allowing one to separate causal from noncausal relationships. We argue that social scientists should be aware of truth conditions of causal claims because they imply which method of causal inference can establish whether a specific claim holds true. A survey of social scientists shows that this is worth emphasizing because many respo…
Lipset and Rokkan’s missing case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset
As Europe’s parties realign around a new, transnational cleavage, this article turns back to a historical case in which national identity conflicts also coincided with profound economic transformation: multinational and industrializing Imperial Austria. While Austria is an important case for Lipset and Rokkan’s classic cleavage theory, they overlooked the long evolution of its party system pre-WWI. This paper introduces the Habsburg Manifesto Dat…
Reality or Rhetoric? Between-Group Inequality and the Use of Grievance Frames on Social Media
The concept of a group grievance—the unjust deprivation of a group relative to some real or imagined standard—plays a crucial role in theories of ethnic conflict. These theories expect group elites to frame a given situation as unjust, thereby motivating behavioral responses among group members seeking to remedy the injustice. To date, however, no large-N study has analyzed how elites communicate grievances. Small-N studies have looked at communi…
Competing Principals in a Multinational State: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907–1914
This article examines legislative behavior in the lower house of the Imperial Austrian Reichsrat, a historical legislature representing a multinational society. The coincidence of economic and center‐periphery cleavages in that democratizing state presents an excellent opportunity to examine the influence of multiple competing principals on representatives' legislative behavior. Drawing on an original dataset, we test under which conditions repre…
Subnational principals and Turkish passports: Administrative inequality in German citizenship policy
This article analyses inequalities in the implementation of citizenship policy in Germany. In this key migrant destination, federal authorities decide on citizenship law but delegate its implementation to regional and local governments. Before a reform of 2024, national regulation required third-country nationals to renounce their prior citizenship upon naturalisation. However, frontline officials could exempt applicants from this requirement. Ma…
Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy
Prior foundational work has demonstrated that liquid democracy is normatively desirable under both egalitarian and epistemic conceptions of democracy. This article defends a concrete institutional realization of liquid democracy—liquid assemblies—as an innovative form of legislative decision-making. Comparing liquid assemblies to other innovative legislatures, such as Landemore’s generalist mini-publics or Guerrero’s single-issue legislatures, we…
Group identities and party competition
The rise of nationalist and populist candidates worldwide provides compelling evidence that parties win elections, not by appealing to voters’ policy preferences alone, but rather by connecting those preferences to group identities. This state-of-the-field article argues that party scholars need to integrate constructivist insights from neighboring fields to better understand the role of group identities in party competition. We review recent dem…
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