Publications

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Articles

2024. « Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behaviour », conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review, with Jack Lucas, Lior Sheffer, Peter Loewen, Stefaan Walgrave, Karolin Soontjens, Eran Amsalem, Stefanie Bailer, Nathalie Brack, Christian Breunig, Linda Coufalová, Patrick Dumont, Sarah Lachance, Miguel Pereira, Mikael Persson, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Anne Rasmussen, Maj-Britt Sterba, and Frédéric Varone

2024. « The Future Might be Female: How Does the Public Perceive Experts? », Journal of European Public Policy, with Anina Hanimann, Lea Portmann, and Frédéric Varone.

2024. « Does Anxiety Increase Policy Learning? », Policy Studies Journal, with Moulay Lablih and Lea Portmann.

2024. « Multilingual Federalism in Times of Crisis », Regional & Federal Studies, with Sean Mueller.

2024. « A Francophone Political Culture? Similarities and differences among French speak- ers in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and France », French Politics 22(2): 115–135, with Sean Mueller, Paolo Dardanelli, Min Reuchamps, André Lecours, and Christoph Niessen.

2023. « Conscientiousness of Representatives and Agreement with their Party Positions », Journal of Legislative Studies, with Peter Loewen, Christian Breunig, and Frédéric Varone.

2023. « A Policy-Centred Approach to Inter-Municipal Cooperation », accepted for publication in the Public Management Review 22(2): 115–135, with Michael A. Strebel.

2023. « Trust, but Verify? Understanding Citizen Attitudes Towards Evidence-Informed Policy Making », Public Administration 101(4): 1227-1246, with Valérie Pattyn.

2023. « Citizens and Evaluation: A Review of Evaluation Models », American Journal of Evaluation 44(4): 571-669, with Valérie Pattyn

2022. « Evaluation Use and Learning in Public Policy », Policy Sciences 55(2): 283–309, with Philipp Trein.

2021. « Does Evaluation Quality Enhance Evaluation Use? », Evidence & Policy 17(4): 661-687, with Kathrin Frey and Thomas Widmer.

2020. « Managing the Rise of the Digital State: Implementation of Digital Education by Local Government », Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences 11(1): 145–157, with Tereza Cahlikova

2020. « Economic Hardship and Social Capital in Europe. A Comparative Analysis of 27 Democracies », European Journal of Political Research 59(2): 290-311, with Markus Freitag.

2020. « Policy Evaluation in Parliament: Interest Groups as Catalysts? », International Review of Administrative Sciences 86(1): 98-114, with Frédéric Varone and Roy Gava.

2018. « Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys », Political Science Research and Methods 6(4): 771-789, with Frédéric Varone, Roy Gava and Thomas Widmer.

2018. « Parliamentarians’ Strategies for Policy Evaluations »,  Evaluation and Program Planning 69(3): 130-138.

2018. « Varieties of Accountability. How Attributes of Policy Fields Shape Parliamentary Oversight », Governance 31(1): 163-183.

2017. « Between Occupation and Politics. Legislative Professionalization in the Swiss Cantons », Swiss Political Science Review 27(1): 1-20, with Daniela Eberli and Sarah Bütikofer.

2016. « What Do We Know About the Demand for Evaluation? Insights from the Parliamentary Arena », American Journal of Evaluation 37(4): 522-541.

–> Winner of the 2016 Young Scholar Award of the German Evaluation Society

2016. « Forschung über Evaluation in der Schweiz: Stand und Aussichten », LeGes – Gesetzgebung und Evaluation 27(3), with Thomas Widmer et al.

Books

2023. Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, with Frédéric Varone and Steve Jacob.

2023. Die öffentliche Verwaltung verstehen und gestalten: Das IDHEAP-Modell, Chur/ Glarus: Somedia, with Nils Soguel, Tobias Mettler and Sophie Weerts.

2023. Comprendre et concevoir l’administration publique. Le Modèle IDHEAP, Lausanne: EPFL Press. with Nils Soguel, Tobias Mettler and Sophie Weerts.

2019. Milizarbeit in der Schweiz, Zürich: NZZ Libro, with Markus Freitag and Martina Flick Witzig.

Book Chapters & Reviews


2022. « Formal Agenda-Setting Government Tools: Periodic Evaluations and Reviews », in: Michael Howlett (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools. London: Routledge, with Valérie Pattyn

2021. « Changing bureaucracies: Adapting to uncertainty, and how evaluation can help », International Review of Public Administration.

2019. « La professionnalisation dans les parlements cantonaux », in: Andrea Pilotti and Oscar Mazzoleni (eds.). Milice et professionnalisation. Neuchâtel: Editions Alphil, with Daniela Eberli and Sarah Bütikofer.

2018. « Zwischen Beruf und Politik: Die Professionalisierung in den Parlamenten », in: Adrian Vatter (ed.). Das Parlament in der Schweiz – Macht und Ohnmacht der Volksvertretungen. Zürich: NZZ Libro, with Daniela Eberli and Sarah Bütikofer. [Link]

2018. « La professionalizzazione dei parlamenti cantonali », in: Andrea Pilotti and Oscar Mazzoleni (eds.). Milizia e professionismo nella politica svizzera. Locarno: Armando Dadò editore: 75-102, with Daniela Eberli and Sarah Bütikofer.

2017. « Parlament und Evaluation: Guts Meets Brain », in: in Fritz Sager, Thomas Widmer and Andreas Balthasar (ed.): Evaluation im politischen System der Schweiz – Entwicklung, Bedeutung und Wechselwirkungen. Zürich: NZZ Libro, with Daniela Eberli. [Link]