Ahead of Switzerland🇨🇭 vs. Algeria 🇩🇿 at 5am local time, Switzerland’s head iconic coach Yakin published an open letter to CEOs, teachers etc., asking them to be “understanding if someone is a little more tired, emotional, or a few minutes late to work or school“ Football CAN bring us all together!♥️

Swiss democracy is often seen as a model, which can make it easy to overlook its shortcomings. I discuss some (by no means exhaustively): only ≈two thirds of the ppl living in Switzerland have political rights, only a minority turns out, and MPs are poor at gauging what their voters actually want

Swiss democracy is often seen as a model, which can make it easy to overlook its shortcomings. I discuss some (by no means exhaustively): only ≈two thirds of the ppl living in Switzerland have political rights, only a minority turns out, and MPs are poor at gauging what their voters actually want

What we find: Disclosure changes everything. In the last Swiss federal elections, mandatory disclosure rules applied for the first time. Reported campaign spending was suddenly 4x higher. Under voluntary transparency, every party systematically underreported except for the Greens & Green Liberals

👉Die Grammatik der Schweiz

#WM2026 #WorldCup: Brazil is home to the largest population of people of Japanese descent outside Japan. 🇧🇷 🇯🇵 The Netherlands has one of its largest migrant communities rooted in Morocco. 🇳🇱 🇲🇦

Today, my beloved river Aare in my hometown Bern, Switzerland that we float down all the time will break the all-time record for water temperature, exceeding the 24.12°C measured in August 2022. The speed and accumulation of record after record seems almost too big to grasp with our human minds

NEW PUBLICATION!🚨 The 2023 Swiss federal elections were the first ever held under mandatory campaign finance disclosure rules. So how does an open-list PR influence campaign spending? Greater voters' ability to cast preference votes = more money spent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This should absolutely make headlines in Europe, and serve as a reminder to all democracies worldwide never to accept such a shocking level of harm inflicted on political opponents and their children #Buttigieg

Largest private landowner in Switzerland? Pro Natura! My colleague Lauriane Cailleux defend a fantastic PhD thesis on the strategies environmental organizations use to influence decision-making. BETTER than any TEDx talk! A masterclass in how to own the stage while presenting research. Congrats!

POV: very, very ordinary people in a v ordinary setting. That is the 7 Swiss govt members on their annual 2-day trip called #Bundesratsreisli. No secret service, just lots of unscripted contact with citizens. And the ppl reward them for it: the Swiss govt enjoys the highest trust levels worldwide

„One study from 2022 analysed every #WorldCup b/w 1970 and 2018 and found that teams with more foreign-born players generally progressed further in the tournament“ HOPP SCHWIZ, with Switzerland being one of the most multicultural squads in intl football #SUICAN 🇨🇭 theconversation.com/how-migratio...

Berlin erwartet am Wochenende Temperaturen von bis 42 Grad. Dipesh Chakrabarty warnt: „Wenn der Mensch zu einer Kraft geworden ist, die das Klima des Planeten verändert, müssen wir uns sowohl aus globaler als auch aus planetarer Perspektive betrachten“ Eindrückliche gestrige Benjamin-Lecture 1/3

In der Deutschland dauert ein Gesetzgebungsverfahren teils nur wenige Monate, in der Schweiz ∅ fast 4.5J. Die meiste Zeit entfällt aufs vorparlamentarische Verfahren: Kompromiss & breiter Einbezug Sehr beeindruckt von den vielen spannenden Fragen zu meinem Gastvortrag @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

In der Deutschland dauert ein Gesetzgebungsverfahren teils nur wenige Monate, in der Schweiz ∅ fast 4.5J. Die meiste Zeit entfällt aufs vorparlamentarische Verfahren: Kompromiss & breiter Einbezug Sehr beeindruckt von den vielen spannenden Fragen zu meinem Gastvortrag @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Von Belfast nach Berlin: Morgen 22.6.2026 (10:30h) darf ich an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social einen öffentl Gastvortrag halten. Illustriert am Bsp. des Bevölkerungsdeckels ( #10MioSchweiz) erkläre ich, warum viele der einst kompromissfördernden Institutionen der Schweiz heute nicht mehr greifen

What a wonderful few days in Belfast for #EPSS2026 and what a fantastic community! Thank you to everyone who joined the conference with such enthusiasm A special thanks to @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & the rest of the EPSS Council for making it all possible

Von Belfast nach Berlin: Morgen 22.6.2026 (10:30h) darf ich an der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social einen öffentl Gastvortrag halten. Illustriert am Bsp. des Bevölkerungsdeckels ( #10MioSchweiz) erkläre ich, warum viele der einst kompromissfördernden Institutionen der Schweiz heute nicht mehr greifen

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen! Probably the best conference experience I have ever had so far! Very proud of what this community can achieve. And truly grateful for all old& new colleagues I had the privilege to meet (again) during the last few days! #EPSS2026

If you found my thread the radical right's #10MioSchweiz prop insightful & if you happen to be in Berlin next week, plz join my talk @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. I will discuss what the vote tells us about once-consociational Swiss democracy All welcome! www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...

Very proud to see such a strong representation from the @unil.bsky.social at the inaugural #EPSS2026 conference, and deeply grateful to have such supportive, warm, and exceptionally productive colleagues @philipptrein.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social! Todsy is day 3 in Belfast, rise and shine!

Ich habe den Artikel erst heute gelesen und möchte ihn teilen. Selten haben Stadt und Land so unterschiedlich abgestimmt wie letzten Sonntag. Danke @rfrbrghs.bsky.social für diese interessante Einordnung und die persönlichen Einblicke! (Leider nur im Abo, Auszüge im thread)

HOPP SCHWIZ!!!! 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 #epss2026 #worldcup #wm2026 @clandwehr.bsky.social @arminschaefer.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social @micastre.bsky.social

HOPP SCHWIZ!!!! 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭 #epss2026 #worldcup #wm2026 @clandwehr.bsky.social @arminschaefer.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social @micastre.bsky.social

Swiss Post is a truly iconic institution. It signals to citizens that “the state” will literally jump fences&arrive by sled to serve you. But what happens when it disappears? Thrilled to present @victoriahaerter.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social (EL07, 10:50/3b) #epss2026

WELCOME to #EPSS2026 from the EPSS Council!

A fast-growing literature links public service deprivation to electoral choice. But what happens when voters can decide on policies directly through referendums? Thrilled to present our WP on the long-run political effects of post office closures!🏤 Plz join our #EPSS2026 panel on 6/18, 10:50am, 3b

Democratization paper explaining why - Switzerland is a 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 democracy - proposals for a "parliamentary" USA 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 parliamentary - standard definitions of the 𝗻𝗼-𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 are wrong - a personalist autocracy 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 presidential elections ... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A fast-growing literature links public service deprivation to electoral choice. But what happens when voters can decide on policies directly through referendums? Thrilled to present our WP on the long-run political effects of post office closures!🏤 Plz join our #EPSS2026 panel on 6/18, 10:50am, 3b

Lasst uns versöhnlich sein: Ich bleibe überzeugt, dass es nicht viel braucht, um wieder mehr zusammenzurücken – va aufrichtiges gegenseitiges Interesse an den jeweiligen Lebensrealitäten. So durfte ich beim #Heimspiel auf dem Land von meiner Arbeit erzählen Merci @jbuechi.bsky.social fürs Gespräch!

Back from hiatus with some good news: my book has come out in German! Thankful to @springer.springernature.com for publishing and to Patrick Kraft for his help with this.

Post-election analyses point to the decisive role of the mainstream right:Early polling suggested that a majority of FDP and Centre voters were willing to join the far right.  In the end, however, both electorates flipped &rejected the SVP's prop to cap the population at 10M bsky.app/profile/leew...

#Dichtestress? Growing pains of economic success? Growth-related strains? Quite the contrary. In today’s historic referendum in Switzerland, support for the population cap at 10M was *lowest* in the most densely populated Swiss municipalities. Plot (c): @d-qn.github.io / @letemps.ch

One of the most striking patterns from today’s historic vote: The higher the share of non-Swiss residents in a municipality, the *lower* the support for the far-right SVP initiative to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M. The contact hypothesis holds up well! Plot (c): @marcokistler.bsky.social

Really excellent thread. On the (hopefully unsuccessful?) far right proposal to cap the Swiss population at 10 million. Well worth reading to understand how far right anti-immigration rhetoric evolves

Kennen wir ja aus Deutschland: Dort, wo die wenigsten Menschen mit internationalen Wurzeln leben, bekommt die AfD die meisten Stimmen und andersrum.

Always and everywhere, across space and time

A very informative thread of the long history of anti-immigration initiatives in Switzerland. There have been 20, with about 3 wins (50.3% in 2014 + deporting foreign criminals in 2010) and 17 defeats

„Eines der auffälligsten Ergebnisse der heutigen historischen Abstimmung: Je höher der Anteil ausländischer Einwohner in einer Gemeinde ist, desto geringer ist die Zustimmung zur Initiative der rechtspopulistischen SVP, die die Schweizer Bevölkerung auf 10 Millionen begrenzen will.“

Excellent thread, highly informative, thank for sharing your expertise!

In 2026, Switzerland voted on two initiatived launched by the far-right SVP: ▪️cutting funding for the public broadcaster ▪️capping the population at 10M. Both were rejected. Yet for months, they dominated the agenda. More than CHF 20M were spent on the campaigns. These resources now lack elsewhere

In 2026, Switzerland voted on two initiatived launched by the far-right SVP: ▪️cutting funding for the public broadcaster ▪️capping the population at 10M. Both were rejected. Yet for months, they dominated the agenda. More than CHF 20M were spent on the campaigns. These resources now lack elsewhere

Already *now*, Switzerland’s radical right is beginning to shape its narrative in the likely event that its prop to cap the population at 10M is rejected. The SVP argues that it‘s been a success regardless of the outcome, and blames a Social Democratic govt member for running a “campaign of fear“

TODAY‘S prop to cap Switzerland’s population at 10M has attracted a level of intl media attention that I, as an assistant professor of Swiss and comparative politics, have never seen before. Many thanks for the exchange @tunal123.bsky.social, and for my first appearance in Dutch media @nrc.nl!

‼️ TODAY, Switzerland votes on the radical right’s prop to cap the population at 10M. Here’s what to watch for: ▪️Polling stations close at noon. ▪️At exactly noon, the famous live projections by @leewas.bsky.social start: www.tagesanzeiger.ch cc @lucasleemann.bsky.social @mariostauble.bsky.social

Really important win for journalism but it’s the last paragraph that really struck me Palantir has to pay 95% of the Swiss magazine’s costs - which are $11,000 A case like this in the U.K. would cost *millions* in legal fees. Why it’s so easy for rich to suppress criticism

The vote happens this Sunday & I wanna thank everyone who engaged with this thread over the past weeks The days before a vote are IMO v special. Campaigns are intense,yet as voting day approaches,things suddenly becomes strangely quiet Like a 🌊 building beneath the surface,before it finally breaks

Switzerland will soon vote on whether to cap its population. But who is actually entitled to vote? In one of the 26 cantons, a majority of residents have *no* political rights (50.3%). A minority of residents is empowered to decide the fate of those who are most directly affected by the outcome

#WM2026: How did democracy develop in a given country during the decade after it won the FIFA World Cup? Data: V-Dem's Electoral Democracy Index @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

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