Curriculum Vita and List of Publications

Curriculum Vita and List of Publications
Jürg Steiner
Curriculum Vitae
1935 Born in Bern (Switzerland), Swiss citizen
1954 Matura Gymnasium Burgdorf
1954-60 Studies at the Universities of Bern and Paris
1960 Ph.D. at the University of Bern with sociology and history as main fields
1960-61 Assistant at the Institute of Sociology University of Bern
1962-64 Secretary of the federal commission to study the Swiss university system (commission
Labhardt)
1964-67 Commissioner of the Aargau canton to study possible contribution of the canton to the
Swiss university system
1967-70 Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation
1969 Habilitation as Privatdozent for political science at the University of Mannheim
1970-71 Visiting professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1971-2002 Professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (now
Emeritus)
1971-79 Visiting professor of political science at the University of Geneva
1980-89 “Professeur Associé” of political science at the University of Geneva
1990 to 2000 Professor Extraordinarius at the University of Bern (now Emeritus)
2003/2004 Swiss Chair at the European University Institute in Florence
Publications
Books
Die Beziehungen zwischen den Stimmberechtigten und den Gewaehlten in laendlichem und
staedtischem Milieu, Bern: Paul Haupt, 1959.
Die Anteilnahme der Stimmbuerger am politischen Leben ihrer Gemeinde, Bern: Paul Haupt,
1961.
Buerger und Politik. Empirisch-theoretische Befunde ueber die politische Partizipation der
Buerger in Demokratien unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Schweiz und der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Meisenheim: Anton Hain, 1969.
Gewaltlose Politik und kulturelle Vielfalt. Hypothesen entwickelt am Beispiel der Schweiz,
Bern: Paul Haupt, 1970.
Das politische System der Schweiz, Muenchen: R. Piper, 1971 (Herausgeber und Mitarbeiter).
Amicable Agreement versus Majority Rule. Conflict Resolution in Switzerland, Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1974.
Decision-Making in Smaller Democracies: The Consociational "Burden", Beverly Hills: Sage
Publications, 1977 (with Jeffrey Obler and Guido Dierickx).
A Theory of Political Decision-Making. Intra-Party Decision-Making in Switzerland, Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980 (with Robert H. Dorff).
European Democracies, New York: Longman, 1986.
Second edition, 1991
Third edition, 1995
Fourth edition, 1998
Fifth edition, 2007 (with Markus Crepaz)
Sixth edition, 2008 (with Markus Crepaz)
Seventh edition, 2010 (with Markus Crepaz)
Eights edition, 2012 (with Markus Crepaz)
Polish translation, 1993
Russian translation, 1995
Conscience in Politics, New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
German translation, 1996
Polish translation, 1997
Consociationalism and Corporatism in Western Europe. Still the Politics of Accommodation?
Amsterdam: Boom, 2002 (co-editor with Thomas Ertman, also published as a special issue of
Acta Politica)
Deliberative Politics in Action. Analysing Parliamentary Discourse, Cambridge University Press,
2005 (with André Bächtiger, Markus Spörndli, and Marco Steenbergen).
The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy. Empirical Research and Normative Implications,
Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Articles and book chapters
Ueber die politische Aktivitaet der einzelnen Buerger in Kanton und Gemeinde, Schweizerische
Zeitschrift fuer Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, 98 ((1962), Heft 1.
Die Anteilnahme der Schweizer Stimmbuerger an der Politik, Die Neue Gesellschaft, 10
(1963), Heft 5.
Einige Hypothesen zur Stimmbeteiligung, Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Vereinigung fuer
Politische Wissenschaft, 3 (1963).
Die Beziehungen der schweizerischen Stimmbuerger zur eidgenoessischen Politik, Koelner
Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 16 (1964), Heft 4.
Ueberpruefung von Interview-Ergebnissen ueber die Stimm- und Wahlbeteiligung durch
amtliche Angaben, Koelner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 17 (1965), Heft 2.
Moeglichkeiten des kooperativen Foederalismus bei der Gruendung neuer Hochschulen,
Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Nachwuchs und Ausbildung, 6 (1967), Heft 1/2.
Politische Partizipation und sozialer Status, Offene Welt, Nr. 97/98, 1968.
Aspekte des Referendums, Schweizer Monatshefte, 48(Maerz 1969).
Typologie des schweizerischen Parteiensystems, Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Vereinigung
fuer Politische Wissenschaft, 9(1969).
Die Bedeutung der Geschichte fuer die Theorienbildung in der Politischen Wissenschaft,
Wirtschaft und Recht, 21(1969), Heft 3.
Nonviolent conflict resolution in democratic systems: Switzerland, The Journal of Conflict
Resolution, 13(1969), number 3.
Conflict resolution and democratic stability in subculturally segmented political systems, Res
Publica, 11(1969), number 4.
Majorz und Proporz, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 11(1970), Heft 1.
Teilnehmende Beobachtung des Entscheidungsprozesses in der Freisinnig-Demokratischen
Partei des Kantons Bern, Wirtschaft und Recht, 22(1970), Heft 3.
The principles of majority and proportionality, The British Journal of Political Science,
1(1970), number 1.
The impact of elections upon the political decision-making process, Res Publica, 13(1971),
number 2.
Un modele pour l'explication du degre de participation politique, Economies et Societes,
6(1972), nr. 9/10.
Subkulturelle Segmentierung und Politische Gewalt, Der Staat, 12(1973), Heft 3.
Why hostility among subcultures? An explanatory model and some applications to the
European Community, International Interactions, 1(1974), number 2.
Political status and norms of decision-making, Comparative Political Studies, 7(1974), nr. 1.
Konkordanzdemokratie als Ausweg? Schweizer Monatshefte, 55(April 1975).
Proporzdemokratie und Opposition: Die schweizerische Referendumsdemokratie,
Parlamentarische Opposition. Ein internationaler Vergleich, Hrsg. Heinrich Oberreuter,
Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1975.
Does the consociational theory really hold for Switzerland? Ethnic Conflict in the Western
World, ed. Milton J. Esman, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. (With Jeffrey Obler).
Decision by Interpretation. A New Concept for an Often Overlooked Decision Mode, British
Journal of Political Science, 11(1980), number 1. (With Robert H. Dorff).
Political Decision Making in Face-to-Face Groups, American Political Science Review, June
1981 (with Robert H. Dorff).
The Consociational Theory and Beyond, Comparative Politics, April 1981.
Research Strategies Beyond Consociational Theory, The Journal of Politics, November 1981.
Switzerland: Magic Formula Coalitions, in: Government Coalitions in Western Democracies,
ed. Eric C. Browne and John Dreijamis, New York: Longman, 1982.
Reflections on the Consociational Theme, in: Switzerland at the Polls, ed. Howard R.
Penniman, Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1983.
Decision Process and Policy Outcome. An Attempt to Conceptualize the Problem at the CrossNational Level, European Journal of Political Research, September 1983.
Decision Modes Towards Separatist Movements, in: New Nationalisms of the Developed
West: Toward Explanation, Boston, London and Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Comparing Decision Modes at the Country Level, British Journal of Political Science, 16
(1985), number 1 (with Raimund E. Germann).
Structure and Process in Consociationalism and Federalism, in: Publius, 15 (Spring 1985),
number 2 (with Robert H. Dorff).
Entscheidungsprozess als theoretische Variable, in: Max Kaase (ed.), Politische Wissenschaft
und politische Ordnung, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986 (with Robert H. Dorff).
Consociational Democracy as a Policy Recommendation: The Case of South Africa,
Comparative Politics, April 1987.
Decision Cases in Western Democracies. A Data Bank, Comparative Political Studies, July
1987 (with Robert H. Dorff).
Analysis of Decision Cases, in: Francis G. Castles, Franz Lehner, Manfred G. Schmidt (eds.),
Managing Mixed Economies, The Future of Party Government. A Series under the General
Editorship of Rudolf Wildenmann. Vol. 3. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988 (with
Robert H. Dorff).
Power-Sharing: Another Swiss "Export Product"? in: Joseph V. Montville (ed.), Conflict and
Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies, Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1990.
Rational Choice Theories and Politics: A Research Agenda and a Moral Question, PS:
Political Science and Politics, March 1990.
Vergleichende Politik und die Schweiz, in: Schweizerisches Jahrbuch fuer Politische
Wissenschaft, Bern: Paul Haupt, 1991.
We Need More Politicians Like Havel, and We Should Tell Our Students So, PS: Political
Science and Politics, September 1991.
What Is Proportionality Anyhow, Comparative Politics, April 1995 (with Hans Riedwyl).
Decision Making, in The Encyclopedia of Democracy, Seymour Martin Lipset, Editor-in-Chief,
Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995.
Konkordanztheorie und Abstimmungsdaten: eine explorative Aggregatsanalyse auf
Bezirksebene, Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Politikwissenschaft, Vol.6, issue 2, 2000: 27-56
(mit Wolf Linder und Hans Riedwyl).
Switzerland and the European Union: A Puzzle, in: Michael Keating and John McGarry (eds.),
Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order, Oxford University Press, 2001, 137154.
Decision Making, in: Paul Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker (eds.), Encyclopedia of Democratic
Thought, London: Routledge, 2001: 130-132.
The Consociational Theory and Deliberative Politics. A Conceptual Framework for a CrossNational Analysis, in: Stephen Brooks (ed), Conflict and Compromise in Pluralist Democracies,
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002 (with André Bächtiger and Markus Spörndli).
The Consociational Theory and Switzerland Revisited, in: Jürg Steiner and Thomas Ertman
(eds.), Consociationalism and Corporatism in Western Europe. Still the Politics of
Accommodation? Amsterdam: Boom 2002.
Responses to Critiques of Consociational Theory, in: Jürg Steiner and Thomas Ertman (eds.),
Consociationalism and Corporatism in Western Europe. Still the Politics of Accommodation?
Amsterdam: Boom, 2002.
Measuring Political Deliberation: A Discourse Quality Index, Comparative European Politics,
Vol. 1, Number 1, March 2003 (with André Bächtiger, Markus Spörndli, and Marco
Steenbergen): 21-48.
Continental Integration and Swiss Federalism: A New Openess to Europe, in: Harvey Lazar,
Hamish Telford, and Ronald L. Watts (eds.), The Impact of Global and Regional Integration on
Federal Systems. A Comparative Analysis, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University
Press, 2004.
Territorial Cleavage Management in Switzerland as Paragon and Paradox, in: Ugo M. Amoretti
and Nancy Bermeo (eds.), Federalism and Territorial Cleavages, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2004 (with André Bächtiger).
Introduction to Special Issues on Empirical Approaches to Deliberative Democracy, Acta
Politica, Vol. 20, Number 2, July 2005, 153-168 (with André Bächtiger).
The Deliberative Dimensions of Legislatures, Acta Politica, Vol. 20, Number 2, July 2005, 225-
238 (with André Bächtiger).
Deliberation in Legislatures, in: Shawn W. Rosenberg, Deliberation, Participation, and
Democracy. Can the People Govern? London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (With André
Bächtiger, Markus Spörndli, and Marco R. Steenbergen).
Concept Stretching: The Case of Deliberation, European Political Science, Vol. 7 (2008): 186190.
In Search of the Consociational Spirit of Accommodation, in Rupert Taylor (ed.), Consociational
Theory, London: Routledge, 2009.
Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing Theories, Their Empirical
Blind-Spots, and Complementarities, Journal of Political Philosophy, 2009 (with André
Bächtiger, Simon Niemeyer, Michael Neblo, and Marco R. Steenbergen).
Wolf Linder’s Swiss Democracy. An Early Advocate for a Deliberative Culture, in Adrian
Vatter, Frédéric Varone, Fritz Sager (Herausgeber), Demokratie als Leidenschaft, Festschrift für
Wolf Linder, Bern; Haupt, 2009.
Deliberation and respect, Irish Journal of Public Policy, vol. 3, 2009.
Deliberation in Parliaments, Legisprudence. International Journal for the Study of Legislation,
Vol. 4, 2010 (with Axel Tschentscher, André Bächtiger, and Marco Steenbergen)
Raison et émotion dans la délibération, Archives de Philosophie, vol. 74, 2011, pp.259-274.
Délibération et média, Archives de Philosophie du Droit, vol. 54, 2011, pp. 193-205.
The Praxis of Deliberation, Festschrift für Kazimierz Sowa, Krakow, 2012.
Learning to Deliberate, in Gemma Gerney and Clodagh Harris, Citizens’ Voices, E-Book, Dublin
2012.
Truthfulness in the Deliberative Model of Democracy, Revista Latinoamericana de Politica
Comparada, Vol.6, December 2012.
Toward a European Public Sphere – The EuroPolis Project, in: Raphael Kies and Patrizia Nanz
(eds.), Is Europe Listening to Us? Successes and Failures of EU Citizen Consultations, Ashgate
2013 (with Pierangelo Isernia, James Fishkin, Danilo Di Mauro).
Common good, International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Manipulation, International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.