Daniel Bochsler

Daniel Bochsler is a Full Professor in Political Science at Central European University and at the University of Belgrade (www.fpn.bg.ac.rs), part-time. He is a Privatdozent / Associated Researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA) at the University of Zurich (https://www.zdaarau.ch/en/).

He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Geneva. His research deals with political institutions and social diversity, particularly with ethnic diversity, mostly in democracies in Central and Eastern Europe, or worldwide. His publications deal with political parties, elections, federalism, direct democracy, regime change and separatism, mostly related to ethnic diversity and/or social minorities.

He has been consulted by public authorities in relation to his research: he has been invited to serve as an expert for the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe to review statistical methods for detecting irregularities in election results, he advised the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Democracy Promotion, and he has advised the Swiss Parliament and several cantonal parliaments of Switzerland on electoral reforms.

His research has been awarded by the Swiss Political Science Association (biennial prize for the best doctoral thesis) and by the Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern (best article prize on federalism and self-government, co-authored with Andreas Juon).

He has been an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich, a post-doctoral researcher at the Central European University, and he has been for research stays at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, at the European University Instiute in Fiesole, at the University of Barcelona, at the Universities of Tartu, Belgrade, at the University of California at Irvine and at the Central European University in Budapest. He is affiliated as a Privatdozent with the University of Zurich, at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA).