Publications des institutions partenaires
Interests groups in parliament: exploring MPs’ interest affiliations (2000-2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of Swiss MPs’ interest ties between 2000-2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties per MP has more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid-2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties between MPs and interest groups, showing the strongest...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Defending the status quo across venues and coalitions: evidence from California interest groups
This study investigates the conditions under which pro-status quo groups increase their advocacy success during an entire policy-making process. It scrutinizes whether prostates quo defenders who are involved in multiple institutional venues and who join many coalitions of interest groups are able to achieve their policy preferences. A case study focusing on the regulation of stem...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Can hybrid cultures be normative?: the challenge of indeterminacy for multiculturalism
This dissertation takes up a theoretical problem that prejudices justifications of multiculturalism. If we understand multiculturalism as a position holding that cultures are valuable entities that deserve respect and recognition, we must not only show that there indeed are such things as cultures, but also that culture is the right kind of entity to possess value. However, these...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The political economy of compensatory redistribution: Unemployment, inequality and policy choice
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Roll call votes in democratic legislatures: the reasons for their use and their effects on legislative behavior
This dissertation examines the reasons for the selection of roll call votes and their effects on legislators' voting behavior in democratic legislatures. First, the dissertation shows that legislators have an incentive to facilitate the use of roll call votes when they expect that their policy preferences are aligned with those of important actors outside the legislature....
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Les ressources du pouvoir urbain
Quelles sont les ressources que les gouvernements des villes et leurs partenaires doivent mobiliser pour gouverner la ville du 21ème siècle ? Cet article introductif propose de revisiter le concept de pouvoir urbain en le considérant comme un enchevêtrement de jeux d'acteurs s'articulant autour du contrôle et des échanges de ressources d'action. Il élabore une...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Le déclin comme atout et la croissance comme handicap. Analyse comparée des trajectoires de développement des villes suisses de Bienne et Genève
La capacité d'action des gouvernements locaux augmente-t-elle lorsqu'une ville se trouve dans un contexte de croissance et diminue-t-elle en cas de déclin ? Certains auteurs répondent par l'affirmative, d'autres estiment que ce facteur n'est pas déterminant. Cet article souhaite élargir ce débat en analysant comment les gouvernements locaux peuvent mobiliser...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Parlement de milice et groupes d'intérêt (1970–2010): Professionnalisation et diversification des liens d'intérêt ?
The Swiss Parliament is distinguished in historical international comparison by its tradition of non-professional public service. Although existing literature on interest groups (IGs) mainly treats the influence and pressure they have placed upon members of parliament (MPs), for Switzerland – particularly in light of this non-professional public service tradition – it also appears...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Union members at the polls in diverse trade union landscapes
This article investigates to what extent social democratic parties still benefit from the support of union members at the polls. Not only are social democratic parties confronted with new competitors in the party systems, but also the union confederations of the socialist labour movement are in some countries losing their dominant position due to the rise of separate professional...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Herméneutique et explication. Deux essais de philosophie des sciences sociales
L'herméneutique se définit comme l'art de comprendre. Dès lors elle intervient à chaque moment de la vie humaine, dès l'enfance, puisque l'enfant grandit en cherchant à comprendre le monde dans lequel il vit. Ce livre cherche lui-même à comprendre comment fonctionne l'herméneutique, notamment lorsqu'elle a affaire avec la science en général et avec les...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Can EU Member States Still Negotiate BITs with Third Countries?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
La première affaire CIRDI contre la Guinée est rejetée pour défaut de compétence
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2016
Tribunal dismisses all claims by U.S. mining investor against Oman
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Privacy, Democracy and Freedom of Expression
Must privacy and freedom of expression conflict? To witness recent debates in Britain, you might think so. Anything other than self-regulation by the press is met by howls of anguish from journalists across the political spectrum, to the effect that efforts to protect people’s privacy will threaten press freedom, promote self-censorship and prevent the press from fulfilling its vital...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
The external face of differentiated integration: third country participation in EU sectoral bodies
Below the surface of its central decision-making bodies, the European integration process has developed a dense web of transgovernmental ties that reach out to foreign regulators. Insofar as the latter gain formal participation rights in European Union (EU) regulatory bodies, this results into an external form of differentiated integration. Focusing on EU regulatory agencies, this...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Transnational self-help networks and community forestry: A theoretical framework
Global forest governance is generally analyzed as highly fragmented, meaning that it involves a multiplicity of actors and institutions. This fragmentation may be one explanation of the proliferation of multiple discourses around forest governance produced by some dominant actors. In this context, community forestry organizations are seeking, through their association in the form of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Transnational networks and community forestry in Mesoamerica: scalar dynamics in the transformation of global norms
Global forest governance is generally analysed as highly fragmented, meaning that it involves a multiplicity of actors and institutions. However, some norms and discourses around global forest governance have gained more influence in the international arena. One major example is the REDD+ program implemented by the UN to reduce carbon emissions resulting from deforestation, with the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
La politique suisse des bons officies du Peace Building : le cas du règlement du conflit algérien
Il s'agit de rendre compte de l'originalité de la politique suisse en matière de négociation de la paix. L'exemple ici retenu est le règlement du conflit algérien qui donne lieu à un fort investissement de la Suisse dans le double registre de la diplomatie privée et de la diplomatie publique. Cet article rend compte des forces de cette logique d'action...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2015
Dealing with bad guys: actor- and process-level determinants of the “devil shift” in policy making
Policy actors tend to misinterpret and distrust opponents in policy processes. This phenomenon, known as the “devil shift”, consists of the following two dimensions: actors perceive opponents as more powerful and as more evil than they really are. Analysing nine policy processes in Switzerland, this article highlights the drivers of the devil shift at two levels. On the actor level,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
HRM practices sustaining PSM: when values congruency matters
This study aims at identifying the organisational antecedents of public service motivation (PSM). It focuses on human resources management (HRM) practices as one category of organisational factors that impact on PSM. Concretely, this research questions how intrinsic and extrinsic HRM practices are related to PSM and whether these relationships are direct or mediated by person-...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
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