Curriculum vitae
Klaus Armingeon is an associate researcher at the IPZ. He has been visiting professor at various universities abroad. He is professor emeritus of comparative and European politics at the University of Bern. He studied political science and Eastern European history in Tübingen, received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz and habilitated at the University of Heidelberg. He has researched and taught in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and the USA. His research focuses on comparative political economy and sociology as well as European integration, where he has worked on the basis of individual and macro data on topics such as the nation state and the EU, Switzerland's political system in international comparison, austerity policy, liberalisation policy, labour relations, trade unions, political participation, inequality and the welfare state.
He has contributed to large international comparative data sets such as the Comparative Political Data Set (https://www.cpds-data.org/) and the Liberalisation Data Set (https://liberalization.org/).
Research focus
Labour relations, trade unions, welfare state, income inequality, political knowledge, political participation, European integration, austerity and liberalisation policies
Publications (ZORA)
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Publications
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2024
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Switzerland Report: Sustainable Governance Indicators 2024 Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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2023
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Austerity and Adjustment from the Great Recession to the Pandemic— and Beyond In: Börner, Stefanie; Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin . European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 28-52.
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Citizens’ response to a non-responsive government: the case of the Swiss Initiative on Mass Immigration Comparative European Politics:133-151.
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Liberalisierungspolitik in wirtschaftlich hochentwickelten Demokratien: Die Salienz eines politischen Themas als Reformbremse In: Faas, Thorsten; Huber, Sascha; Krewel, Mona; Roßteutscher, Sigrid . Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie : Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 413-425.
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Liberalization and income inequality in worlds of welfare: A comparative analysis (1974-2013) In: Green-Pedersen, Christoffer; Jensen, Carsten; Vis, Barbara . No Normal Science! Festschrift for Kees van Kersbergen. Aarhus: Politica, 173-186.
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2022
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Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic The Political Quarterly, 93(3):424-432.
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Redistributive preferences: Why actual income is ultimately more important than perceived income Journal of European Social Policy, 32(2):135-147.
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Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU Comparative European Politics, 20(2):144-165.
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Switzerland Report: Sustainable Governance Indicators Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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2021
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Die verlorenen Gewerkschaftsmitglieder In: Pallaver, Günther; Senn, Martin . Nachdenken und Meter machen : Festschrift für Ferdinand Karlhofer. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 157-173.
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Trade-offs between redistribution and environmental protection: the role of information, ideology, and self-interest Journal of European Public Policy, 28(4):489-509.
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Fiscal solidarity: the conditional role of political knowledge European Union Politics, 22(1):133-154.
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Switzerland Report : Sustainable Governance in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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Intergovernmental Organizations In: Béland, Daniel; Morgan, Kimberly J; Obinger, Herbert; Pierson, Christopher . The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-18.
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2020
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Understanding the role of political knowledge in support for fiscal solidarity online: The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Muddling between responsiveness and responsibility: the Swiss case of a non-implementation of a constitutional rule Comparative European Politics, 18(2):256-280.
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Korporatismus In: Bonvin, Jean-Michel; et al . Wörterbuch der Schweizer Sozialpolitik. Zürich: Nomos, 288-290.
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Switzerland Report: Sustainable governance indicators Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
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