Simon Bornschier
I direct the Research area Political Sociology at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich. My research and teaching focuses on comparative political sociology. I have worked on the transformation of cleavages and party systems in Western Europe and on the rise of right-wing populist parties. Currently, much of my research focuses on party system formation in Latin America, both in historical perspective, as well as with a focus on the competitive strategies of contemporary political parties.
News
New article: Polarization and Representation in Switzerland. The New Cultural Conflict, Polarization, and Representation in the Swiss Party System, 1975–2011
New article (in Spanish): Measuring the Quality of Representation in Latin America. Historical Trajectories and Party System Responsiveness in Seven Latin American Countries
Book chapter: The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics. Co-authored with Hanspeter Kriesi. In J. Rydgren (Ed.), Class Politics and the Radical Right. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 10-29.
New Article. Why a right-wing populist party emerged in France but not in Germany: cleavages and actors in the formation of a new cultural divide
Political Sociology. New Research Area at the Institute for Political Science, University of Zurich
Contact
Simon Bornschier
Research Area Political Sociology
Institute for Political Science
University of Zurich
Affolternstrasse 56
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Link: Political Sociology at UZH
+41 44 634 40 79
siborn@ipz.uzh.ch
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