Publications
Work in Progress
Simon Bornschier, Lukas Haffert, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergen and Delia Zollinger: "Identity Formation between Structure and Agency – How ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment," Presented at various conferences and workshops. Latest version presented at the ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, August 2022.
Simon Bornschier and Manuel Vogt: "Resistance Against Mining in Latin America: Between Institutions and Protest," Paper prepared for the Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW/ASSP) 4-5 February 2021.
Simon Bornschier: "The Causes and Consequences of Populism: Programmatic Representation Before and After the “Left Turn” in Latin America," Current version of a paper I presented at various conferences and workshops.
Simon Bornschier: "How do Regime Divides Emerge and What Happens When They Fade? Evidence from South America," Paper presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), August 29-September 1, Washington, D.C. and revised for the ECPR Virtual General Conference 30 August – 3 September 2021..
2024
Simon Bornschier (2024): "Polarization, Political Cleavages, and Elites in Old and New Democracies," in: Mass-Elite Representation Gap in Old and New Democracies. Critical Junctures and Elite Agency, edited by Jaemin Shim. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 115-143.
Simon Bornschier, Manuel Vogt (2024): "The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance," World Development 176 – open access.
2023
Silja Häusermann, Simon Bornschier (2023): "Democratic Conflict and Polarization: Healthy or Harmful?" UBS Center Public Paper #14, November 2023.
2021
Simon Bornschier, Silja Häusermann, Delia Zollinger und Céline Colombo (2021): "How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior — Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice." Comparative Political Studies 54(12), 2087-2122.
2020
Simon Bornschier (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, 540-549.
2019
Simon Bornschier (2019): "Historical Polarization and Representation in South American Party Systems, 1900–1990," British Journal of Political Science 49(1), 153-179.
2018
Simon Bornschier (2018): "Populist Success in Latin America and Western Europe: Ideational and Party-System-Centered Explanations," In: The Ideational Approach to Populism. Concept, Theory, and Analysis, edited by Kirk A. Hawkins, Ryan E. Carlin, Levente Littvay, and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Abingdon: Routledge, 202–237.
Simon Bornschier (2018): "Globalization, Cleavages, and the Radical Right," In: The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, edited by Jens Rydgren. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 212-238.
2017
Simon Bornschier (2017): "Populist Mobilization Across Time and Space," Swiss Political Science Review, 23(4), 301-542.
Simon Bornschier (2017): "Populist Mobilization Across Time and Space: An Introduction," Swiss Political Science Review 23(4), 301–312.
2015
Simon Bornschier (2015): "The New Cultural Conflict, Polarization, and Representation in the Swiss Party System, 1975–2011," Swiss Political Science Review 21 (4), 680–701.
Simon Bornschier (2015): "Trayectorias históricas y responsiveness del sistema de partidos en siete países de América Latina," América Latina Hoy 65 (diciembre), 45-77.
Simon Bornschier (2015): "The new cultural divide and the two-dimensional space in Western Europe," West European Politics 33(3), 419–444.
2013
Simon Bornschier (2013): "Review of Mabel Berezin (2009), “Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe”, New York: Cambridge University Press," In: Perspectives on Politics, 11(1), 229-231.
Simon Bornschier (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," In: Swiss Political Science Review, 19(1), 108-110.
2012
Simon Bornschier and Hanspeter Kriesi (2012): "The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics," In J. Rydgren (Ed.), Class Politics and the Radical Right. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 10-29.
Simon Bornschier (2012): "Why a right-wing populist party emerged in France but not in Germany: cleavages and actors in the formation of a new cultural divide," European Political Science Review 4(1), 121-145.
2011
Simon Bornschier (2011): "National Political Conflict and Identity Formation: The Diverse Nature of the Threat from the Extreme Left and the Extreme Populist Right," In: Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds.), Cultural Diversity, European Identity and the Legitimacy of the EU. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2010
Simon Bornschier (2010): Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right. The New Cultural Conflict in Western Europe. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Simon Bornschier (2010): "Integrating the Defense of Traditional Communities into the Libertarian-Authoritarian Divide: The Role of the Swiss People's Party in the Redefinition of Cultural Conflicts," In: Simon Hug and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.), Value Change in Switzerland. Lenham: Lexington, 121-141.
2009
Simon Bornschier (2009): "Cleavage Politics in Old and New Democracies," Living Reviews in Democracy Vol. 1.
Simon Bornschier and Romain Lachat (2009): "The evolution of the French political space and party system," West European Politics 32(2), 360-383.
2008
Simon Bornschier (2008): "France – the model case of party system transformation," In: Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornschier, and Tim Frey, West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 77-104.
Simon Bornschier, Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal and Tim Frey (2008): West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Simon Bornschier (2008): Demokratie, Sozialstruktur und Parteiensysteme in Lateinamerika. Brasilien in vergleichender Perspektive. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
2006
Simon Bornschier, Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal and Tim Frey (2006): "Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: six European countries compared," European Journal of Political Research 45(6), 921-956.
2005
Simon Bornschier and Marc Helbling (2005): "Stabilität und Wandel von Parteiensystemen und die Konfliktlinie zwischen Öffnung und Abgrenzung: Der theoretische Ansatz," In: Hanspeter Kriesi, Peter Selb, Romain Lachat, Simon Bornschier, Marc Helbling (eds.), Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich. Zürich: NZZ-Verlag, 11-40.
Simon Bornschier, Hanspeter Kriesi, Peter Selb, Romain Lachat and Marc Helbling (2005): Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich. Zürich: NZZ-Verlag.
Simon Bornschier (2005): "Unis dans l'opposition à la mondialisation? Une analyse de la convergence programmatique des partis populistes de droite en Europe," Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée 12(4), 415-432.
2004
Simon Bornschier and Silja Häusermann (2004): "Review of Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell (editors, 2004). Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge," In: Swiss Political Science Review, 10(4), 213-217.