Congratulations on a successful Thesis Defense, Jonas Geweke!
Last Monday, Jonas Geweke presented his Doctoral Thesis, which explores how preindustrial wealth persistes and how lottery-based systems intervened to allow for social mobility in the Swiss City-States of Zurich and Basel.
Jonas Geweke research was part of the SNFS project Aleatoric Governance: Elite transformation in Basel, 1688-1798 by Katja Rost. As part of his research efforts and his Thesis, he co-authored several publications, among them:
- Doehne, M., Geweke, J., & Rost, K. (2023). Aleatoric governance: Using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy. European Sociological Review, 39(4), 646–662. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac070
- Geweke, J., Armandola, N. G., Doehne, M., & Rost, K. (2022). Zwischen Einzelfall und generalisierbarem Befund: Die quantitative Auswertung historischer Quellen am Beispiel der Stadt Basel im 16. Bis 18. Jahrhundert. In Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde (pp. 27–52). https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=bzg-002%3A2022%3A122%3A%3A32
- Geweke, J., & Rost, K. (2025). Lottery-Based Elections, Power Monopolization, and Urban Development: The Case of Swiss City-States, 1666-1794. Journal of Economic History, 85(3). doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725100910
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