Simon Bornschier
Publications
“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.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.
Cleavage Politics in Old and New Democracies.
Living Reviews in Democracy, Vol. 1, 2009.
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.
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.
Democratization, Informal Institutions, and the Emergence of Responsive Party Systems in Latin America.
Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 25-27, 2011.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
National Dimensions of Political Conflict and the Mobilization of Euroscepticism by the Extreme Populist Left and Right.
Paper presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, DC, September 2-5, 2010.
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.
Old Cleavages and New Actors in the Formation of a New Cultural Divide: Why a Right-Wing Populist Party Emerged in France but not in Germany.
Paper presented at the 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10-12, 2009.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The evolution of the French political space and party system. Co-authored with Romain Lachat. West European Politics, 32(2), 2009, pp. 360-383.
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.
The new cultural divide and the two-dimensional space in Western Europe.
West European Politics, 33(3), pp. 419–444, May 2010.
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.
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.
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.
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.