A symposium in honour of Hanspeter Kriesi
June 26, 2009
In June this year a major international symposium on perspectives of political science in the 21st century took place in Zurich. The symposium was organised in honour of Hanspeter Kriesi, professor of comparative politics at the Institute for Political Science and the CIS, in occasion of his 60th birthday. The symposium aimed to promote an exchange among senior and junior scholars on achievements and perspectives in some of professor Kriesi’s main fields of research, such as comparative politics, party systems. Some of the experts and long-lasting friends of Kriesitems and cleavages, social movements, welfare state, and Swiss politics. On the initiative of his assistants (Stefanie Bailer, Simon Bornschier, Tim Frey, Silja Häusermann, Marc Helbling and Nenad Stojanovic), together with a number of volunteers, and supported by CIS, the Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau (ZDA) and the Swiss National Science Foundation organised this event which gathered more than 100 participants, including many students. Outstanding scholars in the field of comparative politics could be won over to participate. Experts like Stefano Bartolini,Evelyne Huber, Herbert Kitschelt, Ruud Koopmans, Philippe C. Schmitter, Jürg Steiner and Sidney Tarrow accepted the invitation with enthusiasm and contributed to a very stimulating debate.
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