Wolf Linder is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bern and a leading expert on comparative federalism, referendums, and Swiss democracy. His research centers on decentralization and power-sharing in young democracies. He co-authored Swiss Democracy: Possible Solutions to Conflict in Multicultural Societies (with Sean Mueller, Palgrave, 2017) and has published widely in top journals, including the European Journal of Political Research and the Swiss Political Science Review. Linder’s work significantly shapes scholarship on democratic institutions and conflict resolution in multicultural societies.