Frédéric Varone is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva. His research interests include comparative public policy, programme evaluation and interest groups.
CAP related Research Projects:
- Re-parliamentarization? A quantitative assessment of the Swiss Parliament's legislative function
- Lobbying, litigation and direct democracy: Comparing advocacy strategies of interest groups in Switzerland and California
- The Politics of Attention: West European politics in times of change
Pascal Sciarini is Professor of Swiss and Comparative politics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His main research topics are decision-making processes, direct democracy, Europeanization and political behavior. His work on these topics has appeared in several journals. His most recent book, which he co-authored with Manuel Fischer and Denise Traber, is Political Decision-making in Switzerland: The consensus model under pressure, Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015). He is also co-editor of the Handbook of Swiss politics, Zurich: NZZ Libro (2014).
Anke Tresch is a SNSF Research Professor in the Institute of Political, Historic and International Studies at the University of Lausanne, where she directs a research project on "Party strategies and the dynamics of electoral competition in multiparty democracies" (2014-2018). She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Zurich in 2007. Her research combines interests in media and politics, political communication, voting behavior, and the public sphere.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/anketresch/home
Roy Gava is Lecturer and post-doc researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations. His research interests include comparative public policy, financial regulation and internationalization.