Prof. Dr. Adrian Vatter
Vita
Study of macroeconomics with a minor in political science at the University of Berne
After doctorate and habilitation (2002) at the University of Berne, assistant professor for political analysis and political evaluation in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Berne.
Since 2004, Professor for Policy-Analysis and Political Theory at the University of Konstanz
Research Areas
Analysis of the causes, interactions and effects of power-sharing institutional orders (direct democracy, federalism), analysis of the cultural and institutional integration of structural minorities in multiethnic societies such as Switzerland.
Function within the Center
Principal investigator
Selected Publications
Vatter, Adrian (2000). Consensus and Direct Democracy: Conceptual and Empirical Linkages, European Journal of Political Research 38 (2): 245-268.
Vatter, Adrian (2002). Kantonale Demokratien im Vergleich. Entstehungsgründe, Interaktionen und Wirkungen politischer Institutionen in den Schweizer Kantonen (mit einem Vorwort von Arend Lijphart). Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
Vatter, Adrian (2006). Föderalismusreform. Wirkungsweise und Reformansätze föderativer Institutionen, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zürich.
Vatter, Adrian und Sonja Wälti (2003). Schweizer Föderalismus in vergleichender Perspektive, Sonderband der Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 1 (9).
Vatter, Adrian und Markus Freitag (2007). The Contradictory Effects of Consensus Democracy on the Size of Government, British Journal of Political Science, 36 (2), 2007.