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New book: Cleavage Formation in the Twenty-First Century. How Social Identities Shape Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment.
Simon Bornschier, Lukas Haffert, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergen, and Delia Zollinger. 2024. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press - Elements in European Politics.
New chapter: Polarization, Political Cleavages, and Elites in Old and New Democracies
This chapter builds upon and extends an earlier attempt I made to theorize differences in cleavage politics in old and new democracies.
New article: Mining, Institutions, and Social Protest in Latin America
The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance
Public Paper: Democratic Conflict and Polarization – Healthy or Harmful?
Several developments over the past decade in Western democracies have sparked worries about political stability. How much should we worry about ideological polarization?
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