Biography

Hanspeter Kriesi was born in 1949 in Bischofszell (Switzerland). He studied sociology at the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Chicago. He obtained his PhD in sociology at the University of Zurich (1976), where he also did his Habilitation in sociology (1980). In 1984 he became a professor for collective political behaviour at the University of Amsterdam. In 1988, he went to the University of Geneva, where he taught as a professor of comparative and Swiss politics until 2002, when he took up the chair for comparative politics at the University of Zurich. He was the Stein Rokkan Chair holder at the Department from 2012 to 2020. He is now part-time professor in the Deparmtent and Principal Investigator of the SOLID project, in collaboration with Maurizio Ferrera and Waltraud Schelkle.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Policy crisis and crisis politics: sovereignty, solidarity and identity in the EU post 2008
• Values, issues, and socio-political behaviour at Europe’s border: towards a psychological model of migration

Completed

• Political Conflict in Europe in the Shadow of the Great Recession

Recent research output

• KRIESI, Hanspeter; VRÂNCEANU, Alina (2023), Voter preferences for EU asylum policies : the role of government cues, Article
• MOISE, Alexandru Daniel; DENNISON, James; KRIESI, Hanspeter (2023), European attitudes to refugees after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Article
• BOJAR, Abel; KRIESI, Hanspeter (2023), Policymaking in the EU under crisis conditions : Covid and refugee crises compared, Article
• DENNISON, James; KRIESI, Hanspeter (2023), Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas, Article
• FERRERA, Maurizio; KRIESI, Hanspeter; SCHELKLE, Waltraud (2023), Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade, Article
• KLEIN, Ofra (2022), Radical right mobilisation on social media : platform architectures and the politics of framing, rhetoric and visuals, Thesis