Peer-reviewed articles
Marco Steenbergen, Delia Zollinger, Silja Häusermann, Simon Bornschier, and Lukas Haffert. 2025. “Social Identities and Electoral Realignment in Europe”. Journal of European Public Policy 33(2): 495–527. [link]
Breyer, Magda, Tabea Palmtag, and Delia Zollinger. 2025 “Narratives of Backlash? Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses”. Comparative Political Studies, OnlineFirst. [link]
Attewell, David and Delia Zollinger. 2025. “Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Political Divides”. British Journal of Political Science 55(e143): 1-28. [link]
Zollinger, Delia and David Attewell. 2025. “Updating Cleavage Theory for the 21st Century”. West European Politics 49(3): 591–616. [link]
Häusermann, Silja, Tabea Palmtag, Delia Zollinger, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Stefanie Walter, and Sarah Berkinshaw. 2025. “Politicizing Inequality in Times of Sociocultural Conflict: How New Left and Far Right Voters Think About Inequality”. Politics & Society 53(4): 630-655. [link]
Häusermann, Silja, Simon Bornschier, Delia Zollinger, and Marco Steenbergen. 2025. “Realignment within the Right Field: Competition between the Mainstream Right and the Far Right.” West European Politics 49(3): 812–840. [link]
Van Staalduinen, Briitta and Delia Zollinger. 2024. “Perceptions of Social Mobility, Gender, and Progressive Politics.” Comparative Political Studies 58(12): 2718-2749. [link]
Westheuser, Linus and Delia Zollinger. 2024. “Cleavage theory meets Bourdieu: studying the role of group identities in cleavage formation”. European Political Science Review 17: 110- 127. [link]
Zollinger, Delia. 2024. “Place-based identities and cleavage formation in the knowledge society”. Electoral Studies 88, 102768. [link]
Häusermann, Silja, Thomas Kurer, and Delia Zollinger. 2023. “Aspiration versus Apprehension: Economic Opportunities and Electoral Preferences”. British Journal of Political Science 53: 1230–1251. [link]
Zollinger, Delia. 2022. “Cleavage Identities in Voters’ Own Words: Harnessing Open-Ended
Survey Responses”. American Journal of Political Science 68(1): 139–159. [link]
Bornschier, Simon, Silja Häusermann, Delia Zollinger, and Céline Colombo. 2021. “How
‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior – Social Structure, Social Identities, and Elec-
toral Choice”. Comparative Political Studies 54(12): 2087-2122. [link]
Books & book chapters
Bornschier, Simon, Lukas Haffert, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergen, and Delia Zollinger. 2024. Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century. How Social Identities Shape Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. [link]
Zollinger, Delia, and Denise Traber. 2023. “The Ideological Space in Swiss Politics: Voters, Parties, and Realignment”. In The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics, eds. Patrick Emmenegger et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [link]
Häusermann, Silja, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Reto Bürgisser, Matthias Enggist, Reto Mitteregger, Nadja Mosimann, Delia Zollinger. 2022. Wählerschaft und Perspektiven der Schweizer Sozialdemokratie. Zürich: NZZ Verlag. [link]
PhD Dissertation
Zollinger, Delia. 2023. Structural Change, Identity Formation, and Cleavage Consolidation in 21st Century Politics. University of Zurich. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-228541
For ongoing work, please see my CV.