Daniele Caramani joined the University of Zurich in 2014. His research bridges comparative politics, European integration and globalisation. Since 2023 he is principal investigator of a ERC Advanced Grant on global cleavages across world regions that extends his analysis of nationalisation and Europeanisation to global socio-economic and cultural structures, alignments in supra-national parliamentary institutions and the discourse by transnational actors, agencies and media. His book on The Nationalization of Politics (CUP 2004) was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize and was followed by The Europeanization of Politics (CUP 2015). His work addresses the interplay between territorial and the left−right class dimension about inequality, reaching back to the first phases of mass democratisation, state building, nationalism and industrialisation in the 19th century.

This work is complemented by research on transnational voting rights and the transformation of representation through populist nationalism and technocratic supra-national integration. He has co-edited volumes on Voting Rights in the Age of Globalization (Routledge 2015) and The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy (Routledge 2020), and published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, West European Politics, Party Politics, Comparative European Politics, among others.

The empirical approach is comparative and quantitative, based on large cross-country longitudinal datasets. Caramani authored Elections in Western Europe since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies (Palgrave 2000, with CD-ROM), expanded into the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA), of which he is a founding director, and which has received the APSA Dataset Award. He authored Introduction to the Comparative Method with Boolean Algebra (Sage, Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences 2009) and, for a student readership, he edits the textbook Comparative Politics (OUP 2023, sixth edition).