Curriculum Vitae
Delia Zollinger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Swiss Politics and Comparative Political Economy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political sociology, political economy, and comparative politics. She received her PhD from the University of Zurich in 2023. Her doctoral research, which was supported by a Doc.CH grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, focused on the emergence of new political identities and conflict lines in postindustrial knowledge societies. Delia was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2022 and at the European University Institute in 2021. She previously studied political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Msc) and the University of Zurich (BA).
Research area
Research Focus
Political sociology, political economy, and comparative politics
Transversal research priorities at the IPZ
- Politics and Inequality
- Democracy and Democratization
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Publications
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2025
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The universalist divide: cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU Journal of European Public Policy, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2561059
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Narratives of backlash? Perceptions of changing status hierarchies in open-ended survey responses Comparative Political Studies, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140251392533
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Educational networks, social closure, and cleavage stabilization British Journal of Political Science, 55, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000712342510080x
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Updating cleavage theory for the twenty-first century West European Politics, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2560781
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Politicizing inequality in times of sociocultural conflict: how new left and far right voters think about inequality Politics & Society, 53(4), 630–655. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292251353374
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Realignment within the right field: competition between the mainstream right and the far right West European Politics, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2515546
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Cleavage theory meets Bourdieu: studying the role of group identities in cleavage formation European Political Science Review, 17(1):110-127.
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2024
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Cleavage Formation in the Twenty-First Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Perceptions of Social Mobility, Gender, and Progressive Politics Comparative Political Studies, epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241306939
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Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society Electoral Studies, 88:102768.
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Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open‐Ended Survey Responses American Journal of Political Science, 68(1):139-159.
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2023
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The Ideological Space in Swiss Politics: Voters, Parties, and Realignment In: Emmenegger, Patrick; Fossati, Flavia; Häusermann, Sijla; Papadopoulos, Yannis; Sciarini, Pascal; Vatter, Adrian . The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 116-136.
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Aspiration Versus Apprehension: Economic Opportunities and Electoral Preferences British Journal of Political Science, 53(4):1230-1251.
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Economic foundations of sociocultural politics: how new left and radical right voters think about inequality URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series 33, University of Zurich.
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Social networks and the education cleavage URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series 24, University of Zurich.
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Narratives of backlash? Perceptions of changing status hierarchies in open-ended survey responses URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series 15, University of Zurich.
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Structural Change, Identity Formation, and Cleavage Consolidation in 21st Century Politics 2023, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
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2022
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Wählerwanderungen rund um die Schweizer Sozialdemokratie Diskussionspapier Policy Briefs 3, University of Zurich.
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Das Wählerpotenzial der Schweizer Sozialdemokratie Diskussionspapier Policy Briefs 4, University of Zurich.
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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.
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