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Daniel Bochsler
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Political Scientist, working on elections, democracy, ethnic politics/nationalism, Central & Eastern Europe, Swiss politics.
Central European University (CEU) & University of Belgrade
Tweets = multilingual
www.bochsler.eu
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Stürzt die neue US-Aussenpolitik die Demokratie weltweit in die Krise? An Osteuropa könnte die Eiszeit der Demokratie vorbeiziehen.

Mein Kommentar in der NZZ am Sonntag.

www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...
October 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Conference travel, continued. Getting into Napoli for SISP.
September 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
As many of you were wondering whether the student protests in Serbia are still active, and amidst expectations that they would die over the summer.

Today is the first day of school. The high school students organised big rallies, and boycotted the start of the school year.
September 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It looks academic freedoms are all over the conference, but some of them a bit badly placed...
August 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
On my way to the ECPR General conference 2025. Hope to see many of you there. #ECPRGC25
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Serbia: Former state minister of police from the regime party reportedly circulated revenge porn against our student at the Uni Belgrade, Pol Sci.
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The pictures show our student as an underage girl.

The former minister is documented to have close links to the mafia. She has never been sentenced.
August 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Do you take the apple- or the pear-shaped krumpli for paprikas?

Erd- / Kart- / Härd- / Grund- / Boda -> ground

- apfel / -öpfel / -offel -> apple
- birne / -bire / -pere -> pear

die-kartoffel.de/wissen/schon...
May 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Join us on Monday 18.00h in Vienna.
with @scharlatanja.bsky.social @ninogoz.bsky.social
by @ceu-polsci.bsky.social ‬ & @fesonline.bsky.social line.bsky.social
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democracy.fes.de/e/democracy-...
May 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Hvala za live-tracker, nisam znao da postoji.
Radfahrertipp: es ist sehr schwierig Fahrtzeiten genau vorauszusagen, aber wenn sie noch in Bratislava sind, dann würd ich sie beim Tempo, das sie fahren, nicht vor 18.30h erwarten.
April 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hm... I find the summary on this picture more plausible. I only saw few signs since January that the police (other than the secret services, "elite" units and their press office) is involved in any action against the students. Check carefully the happenings around the 22-hour-liberation of RTS.
March 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#Serbia: largest protest in history, est. 5% the pop,

despite the authorities having closed down all rail traffic for 2 days & coerced bus companies to cancel all regular&chartered services.

Student organisers kept peace & order, despite the regime trying to instigate violence.
March 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Lässt sich die Schweizer Demokratie exportieren?
@lukasleuzinger.bsky.social spricht mit @cengizgunay.bsky.social und mir fürs Magazin Upgrade.

(1) www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/aktuelles...

(2) Mein Kapitel hierzu im Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics. www.bochsler.eu/uploads/publ...
February 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I was lucky enough that Valentina Petrović @sociology-uzh.bsky.social invited me to a book talk on "Structural origins of post-Yugoslav regimes".

Here I wrote down for @democratization.bsky.social @felixschulte.bsky.social why you should read the book:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The connection is so immanent, I couldn't imagine how one could go without the other. @mguinjoan.bsky.social

Can you envisage a foto competition, deadline after spring/summer, so that we can produce fresh evidence?
February 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Randnotiz.
Tolle Sache: Roger Köppel bringt einen Hauch Südkaukasus ins Albisgüetli.
January 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Spooky. Look at the change in the meaning when proofreading a small text with Deepl. #Georgia #AI
December 13, 2024 at 4:37 PM
FYI. Oslobodili smo se korumpisanih ljudi koji glumili studentske predstavnike. Tj oni još pokušavaju, ali...
December 2, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Probably we should add Albania (for some elections) and Finland to the list, and it would still be incomplete, I remember having seen stuff in LA...
Also, there might be issues and ambiguities with the definition of joint lists vs. apparentments.
Keep us updated about your findings.
December 2, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Some others.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379422001135#fig1
November 17, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Just in time for the holiday season:
Oxford Handbook of #Chocolate.
With my chapter on the politics of #Switzerland.
Or vice-versa.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
December 21, 2023 at 12:08 PM
Just published:

Andreas Juon and I were curious about the diffusion of constitutional rules... and so we studied the role of mediators in designing power-sharing constitutions after conflicts.

Our chapter in this new volume on democracy promotion.
November 4, 2023 at 8:08 AM
Everyone knows about retrospective (economic) voting.
We asked who wins the votes that the incumbent loses. New parties? Established oppositions?

Get one out of 50 copies of our @wepsocial.bsky.social article for free.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GRD7C...
November 1, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Read our article in open access this week...

Are prominent critics of #Consociational Democracy right? How miserable is the Quality of Democracy of Power-sharing?*

... it's worth every €€€ $$$ you spend.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

* Not that bad.
October 26, 2023 at 9:16 AM
Electoral systems are a key variable in all kinds of research on politics & policies. However, scholars struggle to find a universal measure to operationalise them.
Just accepted in Electoral Studies, our 'effective district magnitude', with Miriam Hänni & Bernard Grofman.
“How proportional are electoral systems? A universal measure of electoral rules” The PR principle of electoral systems plays an important role in multiple literatures, including comparative politics, political economy, and conflict studies. The single most important electoral system feature used to determine whether an electoral system might provide for proportional outcomes is district magnitude, i.e., the number of representatives that are elected from a given district. However, once we move beyond “simple” systems, measuring the institutional side of the equation becomes more complex. The legislative electoral systems of three out of five (61%) contemporary democracies rely on multiple institutional rules that affect the proportionality of their seat allocation, for example by combining different district magnitudes in multiple tiers, or delimiting the no. of parties that can win seats through legal thresholds. There is no widely accepted measure of district magnitude for such cases
October 23, 2023 at 3:13 PM