The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice: Stacking the Deck in First-Wave Democracies

The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice explores the strategic manipulation of electoral systems by political actors to maintain access to power.

Patrick Emmenegger, Professor of Political Science, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, André Walter, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD from the University of Bern in 2008, and his research focuses on questions of democratization, electoral reform, and state building, on the political economy of welfare and skills, as well as institutional theory.


André Walter is a research group leader at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland with a PhD from University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. In his research, he focuses on democratization, electoral systems, and state formation. Methodologically, he is interested in causal inference and machine learning.