Patrick Emmenegger

Oxford University Press has accepted our manuscript “Stacking the Deck: The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice” (co-authored with André Walter) for publication. In the book, we analyze how incumbent parties contain new electoral threats by means of electoral alliances, gerrymandering, and malapportionment. Moreover, we show how the success of containment measures (or lack thereof) influences parties’ preferences for electoral system change. Finally, we show that also in PR systems, electoral district design is influenced by parties’ seat maximization interests. The book should be available as open access some time in 2025.