Welcome to the Chair of Comparative Politics


Professor Daniele Caramani

Daniele Caramani has joined the Institute of Political Science in April 2006. He teaches comparative politics (bachelor) and methodology (masters and doctorate). His research includes work on elections and electoral systems, state formation and nation-building, comparative methods, European integration, regionalism, and GIS cartography. He is the author of the book and CD-ROM Elections in Western Europe since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies (Palgrave 2000) and has been awarded the "Stein Rokkan Prize" for The Nationalization of Politics (Cambridge University Press 2004). He has recently finalised Introduction to the Comparative Method with Boolean Algebra (Sage, "Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences" 2009) and edited a textbook on Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press 2008) with the second edition forthcoming in 2010.

His main contribution has been in the field of the theory of the nationalisation of politics in Western Europe. Current projects − partly financed through a SNF-NCCR grant − extend the analysis horizontally (in Central and Eastern Europe) and vertically (the formation of a supra-national party system in the European Union). On this topic a number of published and unpublished papers can be found under "Publications" on this website.

Daniele Caramani is also the Editor of the Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR), Co-Director of the Constituency-Level Data Archive (CLEA) and, since September 2009, co-editor of EJPR's Political Data Yearbook.