New article on the social identity bases of contemporary cleavages.

How “Us” and ”Them” Relates to Voting Behavior – Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice

In a new article published in Comparative Political Studies, Silja Häusermann, Delia Zollinger, Céline Colombo and I we show that the universalism-particularism divide is crystallizing into a full-blown cleavage, with structural, political and identity elements. 

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New article on the social identity bases of contemporary cleavages. How “Us” and ”Them” Relates to Voting Behavior – Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice
 

Measuring Party System Responsiveness in Challenging Contexts. Measuring party system responsiveness in contexts where voters have weakly structured belief systems is a challenge. Here is the result of some thought I have put into this over the past years, included in a symposium in European Political Science
 

Bringing together research on populism and party systems. Populist Success in Latin America and Western Europe: Ideational and Party-System-Centered Explanations. In K. A. Hawkins, R. E. Carlin, L. Littvay, & C. Rovira Kaltwasser (Eds.), The Ideational Approach to Populism. Concept, Theory, and Analysis (pp. 202–237). Routledge.
 

Now in print! Historical Polarization and Representation in South American Party Systems, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 153-179.
 

The causes and consequences of left-wing populism in Latin America. Interview on POP – Political Observer on Populism
 

Book reviewed. Read Russell Dalton's review of Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right