Joachim Blatter
Joachim Blatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lucerne since 2008. He studied Social Sciences, Political Science, Public Administration and Law at the University of Konstanz (Germany). From 2006 to 2008 he hold a position as Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He did research and taught at many other institutions: the University of St. Gall, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Zurich, the University of Victoria, the California State University in San Bernadino, Harvard University, the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berline (WZB). His teaching and research interests include the historical transformations of political governance, citizenship and democracy. More recently, he focusses on dual citizenship, transnational voting and the diffusion of migration policy. He published in journals like Democratization, Journal of Common Market Studies, Governance, Citizenship Studies, Global Environmental Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Publius, West European Politics and International Journal of Urban and Regional Affairs.
Phone: T +41 41 229 55 92
Address: University of Lucerne,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Department of Political Science,
Frohburgstrasse 3,
P.O. Box 4466,
6002 Lucerne,
Switzerland
Phone: T +41 41 229 55 92
Address: University of Lucerne,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Department of Political Science,
Frohburgstrasse 3,
P.O. Box 4466,
6002 Lucerne,
Switzerland
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• it broadens the available toolkit for drawing causal inferences in small-N research;
• it allows to develop internally coherent research approaches; and
• it leads to more precise definitions of major terms like “causal-process tracing” and “causal
mechanisms.”
- it broadens the available tools for drawing causal inferences in small-N research; and
- it allows to make each approach internally more coherent.
The latter aspect is especially warranted because the term “causal process tracing” is in danger to become a fuzzy catch-all phrase that can be used to justify all kinds of case study research, especially for those who do not go further as purely descriptive story telling.
http://globalcit.eu/let-me-vote-in-your-country-and-ill-let-you-vote-in-mine-a-proposal-for-transnational-democracy/
und die Möglichkeit, in zwei Staaten politisch zu partizipieren, weisen einen
neuen Weg, die gegenwärtige «transnationale Konstellation» demokratischer zu gestalten.