Articles in Journals

2025. Exploring electoral discrimination through an ethics of office accountability. Representation, 1-19. [With Emanuela Ceva.] First view. PDF

2025. Who supports deliberative mini-publics in a context of direct democracy? The role of trust and dissatisfaction. International Review of Administrative Sciences1-21. [With Daniel Kübler, Robin Gut, Andri Heimann, Céline Colombo.] First view. PDF

2022. Are immigrant-origin candidates penalized due to ingroup favoritism or outgroup hostility? Comparative Political Studies 55(1): 154–186. [With Lea Portmann.] PDF | Appendix

2022. Multilingual parties and the ethics of partisanship. The Journal of Politics 84(1): 470–482. [With Matteo Bonotti.] PDF

2020. Democracy, ethnoicracy and consociational demoicracy. International Political Science Review 41(1): 30–43. PDF

2020. Political parties in deeply multilingual polities: Institutional conditions and lessons for the EU. Journal of Common Market Studies 58(3): 599–615. [With Matteo Bonotti.] PDF

2019. Electoral incentives for cross-ethnic voting: Evidence from a natural experiment. European Political Science Review 11(2): 192–212. [With Oliver Strijbis.] PDF

2019. Electoral discrimination against immigrant-origin candidates. Political Behavior 41(1): 105–134. [With Lea Portmann.] PDF

2018. Political marginalization of “Others” in consociational regimes. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Comparative Governance and Politics 12(2): 341–364. PDF

2017. Normative political theory, democratic politics and minority rights. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20(1): 101–113. PDF

2016. Die Zusammensetzung des Schweizerischen Bundesrates nach Partei, Kanton, Grossregion, Sprache, Religion, Ausbildung, Alter und Geschlecht, in den ersten 165 Jahren seiner Geschichte (1848-2013). Swiss Political Science Review 22(2): 288–307. [With Anja Giudici.] PDF (+ Anhang)

The database used for the Tables and Figures in Giudici & Stojanović (2016) has been updated. Last update: 31 Dec 2022. You can find it here: CH_CF_d_221116

2016. Party, regional and linguistic proportionality under majoritarian rules: Swiss Federal Council elections. Swiss Political Science Review 22(1): 41–58. PDF

2015. Minority rights and realpolitik: justice-based vs. pragmatic arguments for reserving seats for national minorities. Ethnopolitics 14(4): 404–417. [With Mirna Jusić.] PDF

2015. Introduction: Ethnocracy at the heart of Europe. Ethnopolitics 14(4): 382–389. [With Edin Hodžić.] PDF

2015. Rappresentanza delle minoranze e democrazia consociativa: l’assenza della minoranza di lingua italiana nel governo federale svizzero. Quaderni di Scienza Politica 22(1): 61–87. PDF

(Errata corrige p. 72: i candidati ufficiali del PPD al Consiglio federale erano tre – J. Deiss, A. Durrer e R. Ratti – e non sei. L’informazione che figura sul sito del Parlamento non è corretta. www.bit.ly/PPD_1999.)

2014. When non-nationalist voters support ethno-nationalist parties: The 1990 elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a prisoner’s dilemma game. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 14(4): 607–625. PDF

2011. Switzerland: challenging the big theories of nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 17(4): 712–717. [With Marc Helbling.] PDF

2011. The acid test? Competing theses on the nationality–democracy nexus and the case of Switzerland. Nations and Nationalism 17(2): 357–376. [With Paolo Dardanelli.] PDF

2011. When is a country multinational? Problems with statistical and subjective approaches’. Ratio Juris – An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 24(3): 267–283. PDF

2011. Limits of consociationalism and possible alternatives. Centripetal effects of direct democracy in a multiethnic society. Transitions 51(1-2): 99–114. PDF

2010. Une conception dynamique du principe de territorialité linguistique. La loi sur les langues du canton des Grisons. Politique et Sociétés 29(1): 231–259. PDF

2008. How to solve the dilemma of power sharing? Formal and informal patterns of representation in the Swiss multilingual cantons. Representation 44 (3): 239–253. PDF

2007. Konsocijacija – Švajcarska i Bosna i Hercegovina. Pregled – Časopis za društvena pitanja 85(3-4): 63-87. PDF

2006. Do multicultural democracies really require PR? Counterevidence from Switzerland. Swiss Political Science Review 12(4): 131–157. PDF

2006. Direct democracy: a risk or an opportunity for multicultural societies? The experience of the four Swiss multilingual cantons. Diversities [formerly the International Journal on Multicultural Societies]8(2): 183–202. PDF

2003. Swiss nation state and its patriotism. A critique of Will Kymlicka’s account of multination states. Polis 11: 45-94. PDF