Hanspeter Kriesi (born 1949, in

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, Switzerland) is a professor of political science at the

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where he holds the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics. Previously, he has been teaching at the universities of

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and Zurich. His wide-ranging research interests include the study of

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, social movements, political parties and

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s, public opinion, the public sphere and

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. He was the director of a Swiss national research programme on “Challenges to democracy in the 21st century” from 2005-2012. From 2014 to 2019 he has been the principal investigator of the ERC project “Political Conflict in Europe in the Shadow of the Great Recession". Since summer 2019, Kriesi is one of the three principal investigators of the SOLID project that investigates the novel conflicts about

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, solidarity, and identity in the

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and asks what made them emerge and escalate during a series of recent crises.

Awards

Kriesi won the Francqui chair for the 2015-2016 and in 2017 the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize in European Political Sociology.

Publications

* Hutter, Swen and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.) 2019. European party politics in times of crisis, Cambridge University Press. * Bernhard, Laurent, Flavia Fossati, Regula Hänggli and Hanspeter Kriesi 2019. Debating Unemployment Policy. Political Communication and the Labor Market in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press. * Snow, David A. Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi and Holly J. McCammon (eds.) 2019, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to social movements, new and expanded edition, New York: Wiley. * Kriesi, Hanspeter 2018. Revisiting the populist challenge. Czech Journal of Political Science 1: 5-27. * Ferrin, Monica and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.) 2016. How Europeans view and evaluate democracy. Oxford University Press. * Hutter, Swen, Edgar Grande and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.) 2016. Politicizing Europe. Integration and mass politics. Cambridge University Press. * Hernandez, Enrique and Hanspeter Kriesi 2016. Turning your back on the EU. The role of Eurosceptic parties in the 2014 European Parliament elections, Electoral Studies.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kriesi, Hanspeter 1949 births Living people Academic staff of the European University Institute Swiss political scientists