Simon Hug research projects

• China vs. the West and the New Debt Crisis. Assessing Political Influence on Indebted Countries at the UN General Assembly (project with Martin Steinwand, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Uncovering the role of emotion norms in conflict transformation (project with Sandra Penic, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Debating human rights (project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Exposure to violence, cooperative behavior and emotions (project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Drivers, impacts and interrelationships of cantonal policies and firm behaviour during the pandemic years in Switzerland (project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Jan-Egbert Sturm and Vera Eichenauer))
• The Strategy of Recorded Voting in the European Parliament (project funded by the Research Council of Norway (with Bjorn Hoyland and Fang-Yi Chiou))
• (Election Interventions and Civil War (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Nikolay Marinov)))
• (Democratization in Developing Countries and Economic Growth (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Kurt Annen)))
• (Parliamentary careers in comparison (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Stefanie Bailer and Philip Manow)))
• (Ethnic Power Relations and Conflict in Fragile States (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in the R4D-Program (with Lars-Erik Cederman (ETHZ)))
• (Re-parliamentarisation? A quantitative assessment of the Swiss Parliament's legislative function, 1987-2015 (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Pascal Sciarini and Frédéric Varone))
• (Civilian Victimization and Conflict Escalation (project funded through the Swiss Network for International Studies with Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH Zurich), Livia Schubiger (University of Zurich) and Marcelo Olarreaga (University of Geneva)))
• (Ethnic Inclusion and Power-Sharing Institutions (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Lars-Erik Cederman (ETHZ)))
• (Bound to cooperate? Mapping Swiss security in a changing global landscape (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (with Andreas Wenger (ETHZ)))
• (The proliferation of multilateral funds. Explaining the shift towards non-core multilateral aid and related institutions (project funded through the Swiss Network for International Studies with Axel Dreher (University of Heidelberg) and Katharaina Michaelowa (University of Zurich)))
• (Forced migration, environmental risks, and conflict (project funded by the AXA Research Fund))
• (Motivating Employees and Volunteers of International Organizations: Do Values Matter? (project funded through the Swiss Network for International Studies with David Giauque (University of Lausanne), Frédéric Varone (University of Geneva), Simon Anderfuhren-Biget (University of Geneva), and Ursula Häfliger (University of Zurich)))
• ( Understanding Roll Call Vote Requests and Their Consequences (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant-No 100012-129737)))
• ( Institutional strategies for post-conflict democratization (project funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation (Prodoc and NCCR Democracy with Lars-Erik Cederman (ETHZ) and Andreas Wenger (ETHZ)))
• ( Refugee Flows and Transnational Ethnic Linkages (project funded through the Swiss Network for International Studies with Lars-Erik Cederman (ETHZ), Idean Salehyan (University of North Texas), and Alain Dubois (University of Geneva)))
• ( 2nd International Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations (PEIO II), in Geneva (Grant by the Swiss Network for International Studies in Geneva with Richard Baldwin (IHEID), Axel Dreher (ETHZ) and Katharina Michaelowa (University of Zurich))
• ( Dynamik des Wertewandels in der Schweiz: Ursachen und Konsequenzen (FNRS Grant (100012- 115925) with Kriesi Hanspeter))
• ( Disaggregating Civil Wars (project funded through the European Science Foundation by an FNRS Grant (116795) with Lars-Erik Cederman (ETHZ)))
• ( Fraktionsdisziplin und ihre Einflussfaktoren (FNRS Grant (101512- 116617) with Bailer Stefanie))
• ( Promoting Volunteer Work: Matching Volunteers' Motives with Organizational Incentives (FNRS Grant))
• ( Parliamentary Decisions. Electoral considerations, party pressure and strategic calculations (with Tobias Schulz) (FNRS Grant 100012-111909))
• ( Civil society, trust and democratisation in Russia (together with Nicolas Hayoz) (FNRS SCOPES Grant IB7310- 110958))
• ( Democratizing Divided Societies in Bad Neighborhoods (together with Lars-Erik Cederman and Andreas Wenger) (FNRS Grant through the NCCR "Democracy in the 21st Century")
• ( The Political Effects of Referendums. A Systematic Cross-national Study (FNRS Grant No. 100012-108179))
• (Domestic Structures and European Integration. A multi-stage two-level analysis of constitution building in the European Union, funded through the Third Call for proposals of the Key Action 'Improving the Socio-economic Knowledge' of the European Union (Project leader Thomas König, University of Konstanz, Germany))
• ( Negotiating and Ratifying Institutional Reform. A Two-Level Analysis of the Nizza 2000 Intergovernmental Conference of the Treaty of the European Union (with Thomas König, University of Konstanz, Germany) partial funding through a Special Research Grant from the University of Texas at Austin)
• (Institutional Arrangements and Conflict Resolution. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (with Jan-Erik Lane, FNRS Grant No. 5004-0487882/1))
• (Referendums as a Battleground. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (FNRS Grant No.8210-046545))
• (Swiss part of World Values Survey (with Eugène Horber and Pascal Sciarini, FNRS Grant No. 1214-045398.95/1))
  
  last changes: 02/02/2022