BORNSCHIER, Simon

MWP Visiting Fellow, 2008-2009

From September 2009:

Research Assistant
Department for Political Science
University of Zurich

Email siborn@ipz.uzh.ch  / Simon.Bornschier@eui.eu  
   

 

 

Simon Bornschier received his Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in 2007. Before this, he earned a Diploma in Political Science from the Free University Berlin and a joint German-French Diploma in Political and Social Sciences from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Free University of Berlin.

Since 2002, he has been a research and teaching assistant and, more recently, a reader (Oberassistent) at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich. He has been co-teaching graduate-level research seminars on various topics in comparative politics, and has held seminars on party systems and democratization in Latin America and Africa, as well as an undergraduate introductory lecture in comparative politics.

Concurrently, he has been a team member of the research project “National Political Change in a Globalized World”, led by Hanspeter Kriesi and Edgar Grande. His Ph.D. thesis originated in this project and is entitled “The Transformation of Historical Cleavages and the Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe”, supervised by Professors Hanspeter Kriesi and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. His current research interests involve the politicization of the process of European integration by national political parties, as well as cleavage structures and citizen-party linkages in Latin America. More specifically, he seeks to explore how clientelistic linkages may be displaced by programmatic linkages in new democracies in the absence of the large-scale historical processes that account for party system formation in Western Europe.

 

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