Publications

Books

Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right. The New Cultural Conflict in Western Europe.
Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right. The New Cultural Conflict in Western Europe.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. 

West European Politics in the Age of Globalization.
West European Politics in the Age of Globalization.

Co-authored with Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, and Tim Frey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Demokratie, Sozialstruktur und Parteiensysteme in Lateinamerika. Brasilien in vergleichender Perspektive.
Demokratie, Sozialstruktur und Parteiensysteme in Lateinamerika. Brasilien in vergleichender Perspektive. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2008.
Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich.
Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich.

Co-edited with Hanspeter Kriesi, Peter Selb, Romain Lachat and Marc Helbling. Zürich: NZZ-Verlag, 2005.

Edited journal issues

Populist Mobilization Across Time and Space.

Swiss Political Science Review, 23(4), 2017

Articles

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

Bornschier, S., Häusermann, S., Zollinger, D., & Colombo, C. Comparative Political Studies 54(12), pp. 2087-2122.

Combining Deductive and Inductive Elements to Measure Party System Responsiveness in Challenging Contexts: An Approach with Evidence from Latin America.
Combining Deductive and Inductive Elements to Measure Party System Responsiveness in Challenging Contexts: An Approach with Evidence from Latin America.

European Political Science 19, 2020: 540-549.

Historical Polarization and Representation in South American Party Systems.
Historical Polarization and Representation in South American Party Systems.

British Journal of Political Science 49(1), 2019, pp. 153-179.

Populist Mobilization Across Time and Space: An Introduction.

Swiss Political Science Review, 23(4), 2017, 301–312.

The New Cultural Conflict, Polarization, and Representation in the Swiss Party System, 1975–2011.

Swiss Political Science Review 21 (4): 680–701. doi:10.1111/spsr.12180.

Trayectorias históricas y responsiveness del sistema de partidos en siete países de América Latina..

América Latina Hoy, 65 (diciembre), pp. 45-77, 2013.

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), pp. 121-145, 2012.

The new cultural divide and the two-dimensional space in Western Europe.

West European Politics, 33(3), pp. 419–444, 2010.

Cleavage Politics in Old and New Democracies.

Living Reviews in Democracy, Vol. 1, 2009.

The evolution of the French political space and party system.

Co-authored with Romain Lachat. West European Politics, 32(2), 2009, pp. 360-383.

Globalization and the transformation of the national political space: six European countries compared.

Co-authored with Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, and Tim Frey. European Journal of Political Research, 45(6), 2006, pp. 921-956.

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), 2005, pp. 415-432.

Chapters

Populist Success in Latin America and Western Europe: Ideational and Party-System-Centered Explanations.
Populist Success in Latin America and Western Europe: Ideational and Party-System-Centered Explanations.

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, 2018, pp. 202–37.

Globalization, Cleavages, and the Radical Right.
Globalization, Cleavages, and the Radical Right.

The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, edited by Jens Rydgren. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 212-238.

The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics.
The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics.

with Hanspeter Kriesi. In J. Rydgren (Ed.), Class Politics and the Radical Right. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 10-29.

“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, 2011.

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, 2010, pp. 121-141.

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, 2008, pp. 77-104.

Stabilität und Wandel von Parteiensystemen und die Konfliktlinie zwischen Öffnung und Abgrenzung: Der theoretische Ansatz..

Co-authored with Marc Helbling. In: Hanspeter Kriesi, Peter Selb, Romain Lachat, Simon Bornschier, Marc Helbling (eds.), Der Aufstieg der SVP. Acht Kantone im Vergleich. Zürich: NZZ-Verlag, 2005, pp. 11-40.

Reviews

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), 2013, pp. 229-231.

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), 2013, pp. 108-110.

Review of Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell (editors, 2004). Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge. Co-authored with Silja Häusermann. In: Swiss Political Science Review, 10(4), 2004, pp. 213-217.

Conference papers

Identity Formation between Structure and Agency – How ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment.....

Simon Bornschier, Lukas Haffert, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergen and Delia Zollinger. Presented at various conferences and workshops. Latest version: European Consortium for Political research (ECPR) General Conference, Innsbruck, August 2022. 

How do Regime Divides Emerge and What Happens When They Fade? Evidence from South America.

Simon Bornschier. 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.

The Causes and Consequences of Populism: Programmatic Representation Before and After the “Left Turn” in Latin America...

Simon Bornschier. Current version of a paper I presented at various conferences and workshops.

Resistance Against Mining in Latin America: Between Institutions and Protest.

Simon Bornschier and Manuel Vogt. Paper prepared for the Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW/ASSP) 4-5 February 2021.

Newspaper articles

Le nouveau clivage culturel et l’émergence des parties populists d’extrême droite”.

La Revue Socialiste, 41(1), 2011.

Globalisering en de nationale politieke ruimte.

Co-authored with Timotheos Frey, Hanspeter Kriesi, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Edgar Grande. De Helling, 2007. (3). pp. 8-13.