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.

Articles

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

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

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 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

Cultural and Economic Potentials and the Mobilization of Opposition against European Integration by the Extreme Left and the Extreme Populist Right. Implications for the Formation of a European Identity. Paper presented at the joint congress of the German, Austrian and Swiss Political Science Associations, Osnabrück, November 21-23, 2008.
Social Structure, Collective Identity, and Agency in the Formation of a New Cultural Divide: Why a Right-Wing Populist Party Emerged in France but not in Germany. Paper prepared for the workshop »Agency and Structure in Cleavage Formation«, 104th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 28-31, 2008.
The Role of Historical Cleavages and of the Transformation of Political Space in the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe. Papered presented at the 4th ECPR Conference, Pisa, 6-8 September 2007.
Social Structure, Collective Identities, and Patterns of Conflict in Party Systems: Conceptualizing the Formation and Perpetuation of Cleavages. Paper prepared for the workshop »Politicising Politico-Cultural Structures: Elite and Mass Perspectives on Cleavages«, ECPR Joint Sessions, Helsinki, May 7-12, 2007.
The Ascendancy of Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe: New Cultural Divides, Denationalization, and the Transformation of Historical Cleavages. Paper prepared for the workshop »Les consequences de la mondialisation sur les comportements politiques«, Annual Conference of the Swiss Association of Political Science, Balsthal, November 2-3, 2006.
Cultural Divides, the Transformation of Historical Cleavages, and the Ascendancy of Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe. Paper presented at the panel »Controversial politics: The extreme right challenge in democratic societies«, 1st ECPR Graduate Conference, Essex, September 7-9, 2006.
Do Right-Wing Populist Parties constitute a European Party Family? A Comparison of their Programmatic Profile and their Positioning in Political Space. Paper presented at the »Jubiläumskongress 50 Jahre SGS«, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Soziologie, St. Gallen, 5.-7. Oktober 2005.
New Political Divides and the Transformation of Historical Cleavages: An Analytical Model with an Application to France. Paper presented at the 3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest, September 8-10, 2005.
United in opposition to globalization? An analysis of the programmatic convergence of European right-wing populist parties. Paper presented at the colloquium »Regards croisés sur l'extrémisme politique de droite en Europe aujourd'hui«, organised by the French Political Science Association and by the Swiss Political Science Associations, Paris, September 16-17, 2004.

Presentations

The Extreme Right-Wing Populist Challenge and the Transformation of Political Space in Western Europe. Paper presented in the doctoral school of the National Center of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century, Aarau (Switzerland), June 6-7, 2008.

Newspaper articles

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.