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Lutz, Georg and Oliver Lipps (2010). Do female and male interviewers produce different answers on attitude questions? (under review).

Lutz, Georg and Nico Zila (2010). Explaining the introduction of PR in the Swiss Cantons: the role of non-strategic actors and unfair electoral competition. (under review).

Lutz, Georg and Peter Selb (2010). Personal vote seeking and district magnitude in open list PR systems. Evidence from Switzerland. Paper presented at a conference on "Candidates in Constituency Campaigns from a Comparative Perspective", Cornell University and to be presented at the APSA 2010 conference, and to appear in a special issue of Electoral Studies (special issue accepted).

Lutz, Georg (2009). Footprints of electoral reform: how institutional changes affect turnout in the long run. (under review).

Lutz, Georg (2009). The Swiss open ballot PR system: its origin and its effect on strategic behaviour of parties and candidates. Paper presented at the workshop on "Personal and Party Representation", 18-19 June 2009, Barcelona, Spain (under review with Oxford University Press for a book edited by Josep Colomer).

Giger, Nathalie, Kathrin Kissau, Georg Lutz and Jan Rosset (2009). Explaining the Variance of Perceived and Substantive Representation. Paper presented at ECPR General Conference 10-12 September 2009, Potsdam (under review).

Kissau, Kathrin, Georg Lutz and Jan Rosset (2009). The structuring pattern of political opinions: is it the same for citizens and elites? Paper be presented at ECPR General Conference 10-12 September 2009, Potsdam.

Lutz, Georg and Karin Gilland Lutz (2008). Democratic Participation: Is Less More? Paper presented at the "Drei-Ländertagung" Osnabrueck, 22./23. November 2008.

Lutz Georg (2007). Electoral system lectoral choice for local elections in developing countries. Paper presented at the APSA 2007 meeting in Chicago and the ECPR General Conference,  Pisa.

Lutz Georg (2003): The Unresolved Democratic Dilemma: Information, Cues - and Ignorance (Paper presented at the 2nd ECPR general conference, Marburg, Germany)

Georg Lutz (2003): Measuring the impact of electoral systems by comparing outcomes in the same area under different rules.

Books

Lutz, Georg (2008). Eidgenoessische Wahlen 2007. Wahlteilnahme und Wahlentscheid. Lausanne: Selects-FORS.

Lutz, Georg (2008). Elections federales 2007. Participation et choix électoral. Lausanne: Selects-FORS.

Lutz, Georg (2008). Elezioni federali 2007. Partecipazione e decisione di voto. Losanna: Selects-FORS.

Lutz Georg (2006). Participation, Information and Democracy. The Consequences of Low Levels of Participation and Information for the Functioning of Democracy. Hamburg: Lit-Verlag.

Lutz Georg and Dirk Strohmann (1998): Wahl- und Abstimmungsrecht in den Kantonen, Bern: Haupt.

Edited volume

Lutz, Georg, Thomas Milic and Marco Steenbergen (eds., forthcoming 2010). The Swiss national election 2007. Special issue of the Swiss Political Science Review.

Lutz, Georg and Michael Marsh (Eds) (2007). Low turnout - does it matter? Special issue Electoral Studies.

Articles in refereed journals

Lutz, Georg (forthcoming 2010). The electoral success of beauties and beast. Swiss political science review.

Lutz, Georg (forthcoming 2010). First come, first served: the effect of ballot position on electoral success in open list PR elections. Representation.

Lutz, Georg and Oliver Lipps (forthcoming 2010). How Answers on Political Attitudes are Shaped by Interviewers: Evidence from a Panel Survey. Swiss Sociological Review.

Lutz, Georg and Andre Baechtiger (forthcoming 2010). Why states decentralise. Publius. The journal of Federalism.

Lutz Georg and Michael Marsh (2007). Introduction: The consequence of low turnout for parties and policies. Electoral Studies 26 (3), 624-632.

Lutz, Georg (2007). The consequences of low turnout in direct democracy. Electoral Studies 26 (3), 624-632.

Lutz, Georg, Markus Mueller und Reto Feller (2006). Nachzaehlung bei knappen Wahl- und Abstimmungsergebnissen - Ueberhoehte Erwartungen? Allgemeine juristische Praxis 12/2006.

Lutz, Georg (2006). Party potentials and the pattern of electoral competition, Swiss Political Science Review 12/4, 191-215.

Lutz, Georg (2006). The Interaction between representative and direct democracy in Switzerland. Representation. The Journal of Representative Democracy.42/1, 45-57.

Lutz, Georg und Thomas Votruba (2005). Ist der Souveraen wirtschaftsfeindlich. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Politikwissenschaft 11/3: 184-193.

Linder, Wolf und Georg Lutz (2002). The Swiss Parliamentary Elections of 1999. Electoral Studies 21, S. 101-154.

Articles in non-refereed journals

Senti, Martin und Georg Lutz (2008). Wo die Schere sich oeffnet. Zur unterschiedlichen Wahlbeteiligung von Frauen und Maennern. Frauenfragen Nr. 1, 2008.

Lutz, Georg und Adrian Vatter (2000): Abschied von der Konkordanz? Die Zukunft des Schweizer Politiksystems, in: Blätter fuer deutsche und internationale Politik, 1/2000, S. 64-72.

Lutz, Georg (1998): Effiziente Parlamente oder gute Repraesentation? in: Parlament, Mitteilungsblatt der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Parlamentsfragen, Nr. 3. Oktober 1998.

Book chapters

Schwarz, Daniel, Andre Baechtiger and Georg Lutz (2010, forthcoming): "Switzerland: Agenda-Setting Power of the Government in a Separation-of-Powers Framework", in: Rasch, Bjorn Erik and Georg Tsebelis (eds.), The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting. London/New York: Routledge.

Linder Wolf, Georg Lutz, Christian Bolliger and Sophia Haenny (forthcoming). Switzerland, in: Nohlen Dieter et.al. (eds.) Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. Oxford u. a.: Oxford University Press.

Lutz, Georg (2009). Väter und ihre Kinder: Erklaerungsmuster intergenerationeller Stabilität bei der Wahlentscheidung. In Sager Fritz (et. al). Festschrift Wolf Linder, 185-206.

Lutz, Georg und Peter Selb (2007). The national elections in Switzerland. In: Pascal Sciarini et.al. Hanbook Political Science. Zuerich: NZZ Verlag.

Lutz, Georg and Peter Selb (2006). Eidgenoessische Wahlen. In: Pascal Sciarini et.al. (Eds). Handbook of Swiss politics. Zuerich: NZZ Verlag

Linder, Wolf and Georg Lutz (2006). Direkte Demokratie. In: Pascal Sciarini et.al. (Eds). Handbook of Swiss politics. Zuerich: NZZ Verlag

Lutz, Georg (2004). Switzerland. Electoral Reform from below: The introduction of Proportional Representation in Switzerland 1918, in: Josep M. Colomer (ed.) The handbook of electoral system design. London / New York : Palgrave. 279-293.

Lutz, Georg (2003). Mobilisierung als Schluesselfaktor für den Wahlerfolg? in: Sciarini, Pascal/ Hardmeier, Sibylle/Vatter, Adrian (Hrsg.), Schweizer Wahlen 1999, Swiss Electoral Studies Bd. 5. Bern/Stuttgart/Wien: Paul Haupt Verlag, 2003.

Lutz, Georg (2001). Alter und Wahlverhalten bei den Nationalratswahlen 1999, erschienen als Spezialbeitrag im Statistischen Jahrbuch der Schweiz 2001, Zuerich: NZZ-Verlag.

Reports, Working papers

Lutz, Georg (2009). The electoral success of beauties and beast. FORS Working paper series No. 2.

Lutz, Georg (2009). Notes on Rwandas new electoral code. Report on behalf of the Rwandan national electoral commission and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Linder, Wolf, Andre Baechtiger and Georg Lutz (2008). Democratisation, Rule of Law and Development. In: SDC Governance Division (ed.), Challenging Common Assumptions on Corruption and Democratisation. Key recommondations and Guiding Principles. Bern: Deza.

Lutz, Georg/Alvic Padilla (2007). Supporting decentralized governance in the Philippines through NGO-LGU partnership. Program documentation for the Helvetas "Program for Governance and Rural Empowerment Support Services (PROGRESS)".

Lutz, Georg (2007). "Comments on the draft electoral code 2007". Report for the Swiss Development Cooperation and the Rwandan electoral commission. 

Lutz, Georg, Isabelle Steffen and Wolf Linder (2006). Kohärenz Innenpolitik und Entwicklungspolitik. Study on behalf of the Swiss Development Cooperation.

Lutz, Georg (2006). Direct democracy in Switzerland. Paper for the International Conference on Direct Democracy organised by the Vietnamese Lawyers Association.

Lutz, Georg (2005). Reflection on Rwandas electoral System. Report for the Swiss Development Cooperation and the Rwandan electoral commission.

Lutz, Georg and Wolf Linder (2004). "Traditional Structures and Local Governance for Development and State-Building". Worldbank Working paper.

Lutz, Georg (2002). Stellungnahme zum Entscheidproblem bei Mehrfachvorlagen bei Volksabstimmungen.

Lutz, Georg (2001). Zufriedenheit mit der direkten Demokratie - Geringe Chancen für Reformen, Vertiefungsbericht Direkte Demokratie, Forschungsprogramm - Univox 2000, Bern/Zuerich.

Lutz, Georg (2006). Schlussbericht der Hochrechnung zu den Regierungsratswahlen 2006 im Kanton Bern. (Und ein Artikel dazu im Bund).

 

Book reviews

Franklin, Mark N. (2006). Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. West European Politics.

Bochsler, Daniel, Christophe Koller, Pascal Sciarini, Sylvie Traimond, Ivar Trippolini (2005). Die Schweizer Kantone unter der Lupe. Behoerden, Personal, Finanzen. Bern: Haupt. Swiss Political Science Review.

Mazzoleni, Oscar (1999). Nationalism et populisme en suisse. La radicalisation de la " nouvelle " UDC. Lausanne: Collection Le savoir suisse. Swiss Political Science Review.

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