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Sarah Bütikofer is a political scientist at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich and editor of the political and social science knowledge transfer platform DeFacto.
She studied Political Science at the University of Zurich and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In her MA thesis, she analysed the electoral chances of female and male candidates in Swiss national elections.
After graduating, she was a lecturer and research associate at the Departments of political science of the universities of Zurich and Geneva and at the Chair for Global Governance of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). In 2007, she got the certificate of the university didactic qualification programme Teaching Skills.
In the framework of the research project Parliamentary Decisions, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, she contributed to the realization of a survey among Swiss MPs. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Zurich in 2011, with a study about the Swiss Federal Assembly.
She was involved in several research projects that focus on Swiss politics, legislative behaviour, professionalization and political careers of MPs as well on youth and gender issues. Additionally, she has a special interest in scientific journalism and communication.
In 2013, she obtained a CAS for science journalism at the Swiss School of Journalism (maz).
Sarah Bütikofer teaches courses on Swiss politics and science communication and journalism for social scientists in various institutions.
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Mit dem richtigen Hashtag die Abstimmung gewinnen? Social Media im Schweizer Abstimmungskampf
Selects Medienanalyse 2015: Der Wahlkampf 2015 in den Schweizer Medien.
La diffusion des connaissances en science politique à travers l’exemple de DeFacto.
Spekulationsstopp-Initiative: Befürworter erfolgreich in Sozialen Medien
From Loose Alliances to Professional Political Players: How Swiss Party Groups Changed
Wieso es die SVP nicht in den Ständerat schafft
Die Berufe im neuen Nationalrat - viele Selbständige und Vollzeitpolitiker.
Le déclin des journalistes au sein du Parlement suisse.
Wie hat es die junge Generation mit der Politik?
Ich und meine Schweiz: Befragung von 17-jährigen Jugendlichen in der Schweiz.
Fiktion Milizparlament - wie aus einem Amt ein Beruf wurde.
Fiktion Milizparlament
Das Schweizer Parlament. Eine Institution auf dem Pfad der Moderne.
