Publications

Articles

Lachat, Romain (2011, forthcoming). ‘Electoral Competitiveness and Issue Voting’. Political Behavior. (Supplementary material available here.)

Blais, André, Romain Lachat, Airo Hino and Pascal Doray-Demers (2011, forthcoming). ‘The mechanical and psychological effects of electoral systems: A quasi-experimental study’. Comparative Political Studies 44(12). (Article and online appendix available here.)

Lachat, Romain and Peter Selb (2010). ‘Strategic Overshooting in National Council Elections’. Swiss Political Science Review 16(3): 481-498.

Selb, Peter and Romain Lachat (2009). ‘The more, the better? Counterfactual evidence on the effect of compulsory voting on the consistency of party choice’. European Journal of Political Research 48(5): 573-597. (Supplementary material available here.)

Bornschier, Simon and Romain Lachat (2009). ‘The evolution of the French political space and party system’. West European Politics 32(2): 360-383.

Lachat, Romain (2008). ‘The impact of party polarization on ideological voting’. Electoral Studies 27(4): 687-698.

Lachat, Romain (2006). ‘A tale of two Councils. Explaining the weakness of the SVP in the upper house of the Federal Parliament’. Swiss Political Science Review 12(4): 77–99.

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier and Timotheos Frey (2006). ‘Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: six European countries compared’. European Journal of Political Research 45(6): 921–956.

Sciarini, Pascal, Thanh-Huyen Ballmer-Cao and Romain Lachat (2001). ‘Genre, âge et participation politique. Les élections fédérales de 1995 dans le canton de Genève’. Swiss Political Science Review 7(3) : 83–98. (Download)

Lachat, Romain (2000). ‘L’influence des campagnes politiques sur le vote. Le cas des élections suisses de 1995’. Swiss Political Science Review 6(4): 51–73. (Download)

Books

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier and Timotheos Frey (2008). West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lachat, Romain (2007). A Heterogeneous Electorate: Political sophistication, predisposition strength, and the voting decision process. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. (The online appendix is available here)

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Romain Lachat, Peter Selb, Simon Bornschier and Marc Helbling (eds) (2005). Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich. Zürich: NZZ Verlag.

Book chapters, short monographs, book reviews

Lachat, Romain (2009). Book Review: The Economy and the Vote, by Wouter van der Brug, Cees van der Eijk, and Mark Franklin. Acta Politica 44(1): 118-121.

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier and Timotheos Frey (2008). ‘Globalization and its impact on national spaces of competition’, in Kriesi, Hanspeter et al. West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-22.

Lachat, Romain (2008). ‘Switzerland: Another case of transformation driven by an established party’, in Kriesi, Hanspeter et al. West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 130-153.

Lachat, Romain and Martin Dolezal (2008). ‘Demand side: Dealignment and realignment of the structural political potentials’, in Kriesi, Hanspeter et al. West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 237-266.

Lachat, Romain and Hanspeter Kriesi (2008). ‘Supply side: The positioning of the political parties in a restructuring space’, in Kriesi, Hanspeter et al. West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 267-295.

Lachat, Romain (2008). ‘The electoral consequences of the integration-demarcation cleavage’, in Kriesi, Hanspeter et al. West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 296-319.

Lachat, Romain (2008). ‘Technical appendix’, in Kriesi, Hanspeter et al. West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 344-365.

Lachat, Romain and Peter Selb (2005). ‘Schweiz’, in Hanspeter Kriesi, Romain Lachat, Peter Selb, Simon Bornschier and Marc Helbling (eds). Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich. Zürich: NZZ Verlag, pp. 41–58.

Lachat, Romain and Peter Selb (2005). ‘Kantonaler Vergleich’, in Hanspeter Kriesi, Romain Lachat, Peter Selb, Simon Bornschier and Marc Helbling (eds). Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich. Zürich: NZZ Verlag, pp. 237–255.

Selb, Peter and Romain Lachat (2004). Wahlen 2003. Die Entwicklung des Wahlverhaltens. Zürich: Institut für Politikwissenschaft. (Download: German, French, or Italian version)

Lachat, Romain (2003). ‘La formation des intentions de vote: Les effets de conversion et d’activation’, in Pascal Sciarini, Sibylle Hardmeier and Adrian Vatter (eds). Schweizer Wahlen 1999. Bern: Haupt, pp. 369–393.

Lachat, Romain and Pascal Sciarini (2002). ‘When do campaigns matter, and to whom?’, in David M. Farrell and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (eds). Do Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects in Elections and Referendums. London: Routledge, pp. 41–57.

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Julien Dubouchet, Mario Konishi and Romain Lachat (1999). Analyse des votations fédérales du 13 juin 1999. VOX N°68. Bern: GfS.

Marquis, Lionel, Dominique Wisler and Romain Lachat (1999). Analyse des votations fédérales du 29 novembre 1998. VOX N°65. Bern: GfS.