Simon Bornschier

Simon Bornschier, Dr.

Director of the Research Area Political Sociology

Phone: +41 44 634 40 79

Curriculum vitae

Diploma in Political Science, Free University of Berlin, and German-French Diploma in the Political and Social Sciences (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Free University Berlin). 2002-2011 Researcher (assistant and then postdoc) and lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich. 2008-09 Max Weber Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. Various projects on democratization and party system development in Latin America since 2009 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of St. Gallen. Since 2012 Director of the Research Area Political Sociology at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich. 2018/19 Alexander von Humboldt WZB Alumni Fellow, Berlin Social Science Center /Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).

Research Area

Research Focus

Cleavage formation and party system change in Western Europe and Latin America, Parties and Democratization, Protest politics

Courses

V-Nr	Course	Start / End	Date	Lecturers	Room
3128	Politische Systeme und Theorien I 615-015a	from 18 Sep 2023 to 20 Dec 2023	Mon 16:15-18:00, Wed 14:00-15:45	Simon Bornschier
0645	CIS Forschungscolloquium 615G930a	from 21 Sep 2023 to 21 Dec 2023	Thu 12:30-14:00	Simon Bornschier

Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

2022
- Bornschier, Simon; Haffert, Lukas; Häusermann, Silja; Steenbergen, Marco R; Zollinger, Delia (2022). Identity Formation between Structure and Agency – How ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment. In: ECPR General Conference - SOWI Campus, Innsbruck, Austria, 22 August 2022 - 26 August 2022, European Consortium for Political Research.

2021
- Bornschier, Simon; Häusermann, Silja; Zollinger, Delia; Colombo, Céline (2021). How “Us” and “Them” relates to voting behavior—social structure, social identities, and electoral choice. Comparative Political Studies, 54(12):2087-2122.

2020
- Bornschier, Simon (2020). Combining deductive and inductive elements to measure party system responsiveness in challenging contexts: an approach with evidence from Latin America. European Political Science, 19(4):540-549.
- Bornschier, Simon; Vogt, Manuel (2020). The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance. In: ECPR General Conference, Virtual General Conference 2020, 24 August 2020 - 28 August 2020, European Consortium for Political Research.

2019
- Bornschier, Simon (2019). Historical polarization and representation in South American party systems, 1900-1990. British Journal of Political Science, 49(1):153-179.
- Bornschier, Simon (2019). Populist success in Latin America and Western Europe: ideational and party-system-centered explanations. In: Hawkins, Kirk A; Carlin, Ryan E; Littvay, Levente; Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal. The Ideational Approach to Populism. Concept, Theory, and Analysis. London: Routledge, 202-237.

2018
- Bornschier, Simon (2018). Polarization, cleavages, and actors in old and new democracies. In: Convergence versus divergence of mass-elite political cleavages: conceptual, methodological, and theoretical innovations, Hamburg, 7 June 2018 - 8 June 2018.
- Bornschier, Simon (2018). Party system responsiveness and left-wing populist success in Latin America. In: Latin American Studies Association: Congress 2018, Barcelona, 23 May 2018 - 26 May 2018.
- Bornschier, Simon (2018). Globalization, cleavages, and the radical right. In: Rydgren, Jens. Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 212-238.

2017
- Edited by: Bornschier, Simon (2017). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Populist mobilization across time and space: special issue.
- Bornschier, Simon (2017). Populist mobilization across time and space : an introduction. Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 23(4):301-312.
- Bornschier, Simon (2017). Party System Responsiveness and Left-Wing Populist Success in Latin America. In: ECPR General Conference 2017, Oslo, 6 September 2017 - 9 September 2017, ECPR.

2015
- Bornschier, Simon (2015). The New Cultural Conflict, Polarization, and Representation in the Swiss Party System, 1975–2011. Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 21(4):680-701.
- Bornschier, Simon (2015). The Impact of Party System Responsiveness on Successful Populist Mobilization Strategies in Western Europe and Latin America. In: 111th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco, CA (USA), 3 September 2015 - 6 September 2015.

2013
- Bornschier, Simon (2013). Trayectorias históricas y responsiveness del sistema de partidos en siete países de América Latina. América Latina Hoy, 65:45-77.
- Bornschier, Simon (2013). Policy Representation in Seven Latin American Countries after Re-Democratization. In: 7th ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, 4 September 2013 - 7 September 2013, ECPR.
- Bornschier, Simon (2013). Review of: Sarah Nicolet and Pascal Sciarini (editors, 2010), “Le destin electoral de la gauche. Le vote socialiste et vert en Suisse”, Chêne-Bourg: George Editeur. Swiss Political Science Review = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 19(1):108-110.
- Bornschier, Simon (2013). Review of: Mabel Berezin (2009), "Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe", New York: Cambridge University Press. Perspectives on Politics, 11(1):229-231.
- Bornschier, Simon; Kriesi, Hanspeter (2013). The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics. In: Rydgren, Jens. Class Politics and the Radical Right. Abingdon: Routledge, 11-29.

2012
- Bornschier, Simon (2012). Cleavages and actors in the formation of a new cultural divide: Why a right-wing populist party emerged in France and not in Germany. European Political Science Review, 4(1):1-25.

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