Faculty Spotlight

Power-sharing in ethnically divided societies relies on group representation. We know surprisingly little about the latter. Daniel Bochsler's new article in Democratization

1. conceptualises group representation,

2. identifies novel violations of the one-person-one-vote principle, and

3. explains the legitimacy crisis of power-sharing democracies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Lebanon.

In this article, just published in West European Politics, Daniel Bochsler and Miriam Hänni ask who benefits from the retrospective vote. They find that a poor economy benefits the established opposition parties, whereas corruption benefits new parties.

"Who benefits from the retrospective vote? Bringing in new parties", forthcoming in West European Politics: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2022.2145743