Celâl Güney is a PhD candidate in political economy under the supervision of Professor Michalis Nikiforos. His PhD thesis explores the political economy of institutional change in the Swiss growth regime since the post-war period. Besides his PhD, his research interests concern the analysis of institutional change in contemporary Western socio-economic models, the analysis of growth regimes, the transformation of political cleavages and the analysis socio-political expectations, preferences and political attitudes.