Publications

2025

Walter A, Emmenegger P. Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment, The British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

Leemann L, Emmenegger P, Walter A. Vox Populi. Popular Support for the Popular Initiative, American Political Science Review, online first. Journal

2024

Emmenegger P, Thoma A, Walter A. Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension. British Journal of Political Science. 2024;54(2):437-455. Journal 

Emmenegger P, Walter A. Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation: gerrymandering and its discontents. European Political Science Review. 2024;16(2):187-206. Journal

2023

Walter A, Emmenegger P. Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems: How Electoral Geography and Partisan Politics Constrain Proportionality and Create Bias. The Journal of Politics 2023 85:3, 1123-1138. Journal

Walter, A., & Emmenegger, P. (2023). Ethnic Minorities, Interstate War, and Popular Support for Fiscal Capacity Development. Comparative Political Studies, 56(9), 1365-1397. Journal

2022

Walter, A., & Emmenegger, P. (2022). Does war exposure increase support for state penetration? Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(5), 652–669. Journal

Emmenegger, P., & Walter, A. (2022). International Trade, the Great War, and the Origins of Taxation: Sister Republics Parting Ways. Swiss Political Science Review, 28, 585–603. Journal

  • Winner of the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation Prize (runner-up)

Walter A. The social origins of Christian democracy: rural–urban migration, interest group preemption, and the rise of the Catholic workers’ movement, Socio-Economic Review, Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 687–710. Journal

  • Shortlisted for the 2023 SER Best Article Award

Emmenegger P, Leemann L, Walter A. Direct democracy, coalition size and public spending. Journal of Public Policy. 2022;42(2):224-246. Journal

Graz, J.-C., Sobrino Piazza, J. and Walter, A. (2022), Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers’ Capacity to Act. Development and Change, 53: 912-937. Journal

2021

Walter A. Socialist Threat? Radical Party Entry, Electoral Alliances, and the Introduction of Proportional Representation. American Political Science Review. 2021;115(2):701-708. Journal

Emmenegger P, Walter A. Disproportional Threat: Redistricting as an Alternative to Proportional Representation. The Journal of Politics 2021 83:3, 917-933. Journal

Emmenegger, P., Leemann, L. and Walter, A. (2021), No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation. European Journal of Political Research, 60: 648-669. Journal

Emmenegger P, Walter A. The Father of All Things or Rather an Obsession? The Effect of War on the Politics of Taxation, In: Seelkopf, Laura and Lukas Hakelberg: Handbook on the Politics of Taxation, Edward Elgar Publishing, 32-46. DOI

2019

Emmenegger P, Walter A. When dominant parties adopt proportional representation: the mysterious case of Belgium. European Political Science Review. 2019;11(4):433-450. Journal

Walter A. A Race to the Middle: The Politics of Interstate Cost Distribution and Welfare State Expansion. The Journal of Politics 2019 81:3, 952-967. Journal

* SASE Early Career Workshop Award 2017

Walter, A., & Emmenegger, P. Majority protection: The origins of distorted proportional representation. Electoral Studies, 59, 64-77. Journal

Walter, A. and Emmenegger, P. (2019), The Partisan Composition of Cantonal Governments in Switzerland, 1848-2017. A New Data Set. Swiss Political Science Review, 25: 1-18. Journal

Walter, A. (2019). Taking the initiative: Direct democracy, coalition governments and welfare state expansion. Journal of European Social Policy, 29(3), 446-459. Journal

2017

Ziltener, P., Künzler, D., & Walter, A. (2017). Research Note: Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism: A New Data Set for the Countries of Africa and Asia. Journal of World-Systems Research, 23(1), 156–190. Journal

2014

Emmenegger P, Schraff, D, Walter A. QCA, the Truth Table Analysis and Large-N Survey Data: The Benefits of Calibration and the Importance of Robustness Tests, COMPASSS WP Series, 2014-79. Working Paper

* Dirk Berg-Schlosser Award 2013