Publications
Monographs
Politicizing European Integration – Struggling with the Awakening Giant. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Read the reviews in Journal of Contemporary European Research, Journal of European Integration.
Political Conflict in Western Europe. Co-authored with Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Martin Dolezal, Marc Helbling, Swen Hutter and Bruno Wüest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Read the reviews in Foreign Affairs, Political Studies Review, West European Politics.
Articles (peer-reviewed)
“The Politicization of European Integration in Domestic Election Campaigns”, forthcoming 2016 in West European Politics (advance online publication).
“How Political Parties Frame European Integration”. Co-authored with Marc Helbling and Bruno Wüest. European Journal of Political Research 49 (4), 2010, pp. 495–521.
„Verschafft die direkte Demokratie den Benachteiligten mehr Gehör? Der Einfluss institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen auf die mediale Präsenz politischer Akteure“ [Does Direct Democracy Help Outsiders Make Their Voice Heard? How Institutional Settings Influence the Media Standing of Political Actors]. Swiss Political Science Review 14 (2), 2008, pp. 207–43.
Working Papers
„Drei Welten der politischen Kommunikation? Ein Vergleich der Strukturen politischer Öffentlichkeit in der Schweiz, Deutschland und den USA” [Three Worlds of Political Communication? Comparing the Abortion Debate in Switzerland, Germany, and the USA], National Competence Center of Research (NCCR) Challenges to Democracy Paper No. 3, 2007.
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Recent Conference Contributions and Talks
| Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Workshop “The Politicization of European Governance”. Presentation of the paper “Only an also-ran – the limited politicization of Europe in domestic election campaigns”. | 11/2014 |
| University of Glasgow, ECPR General Conference. Panel “Party Competition in the Mass Media”, Presentation of the paper “Comparing the logics of issue-emphasis and salience of challenger issues”. | 09/2014 |
| Universität Bremen, Workshop “The Politicization of European Governance”. | 07/2014 |
| ECPR EU Standing Group/Universität Leiden, Den Haag, 7th Pan-European Conference on the EU. Presentation of the paper “The salience of Europe in domestic electoral politics – only one issue among many?”. | 06/2014 |
| University of Zurich, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research. Trial lecture (“Probevortrag”) for the position of Assistant Professor in Political Communication, with tenure track (short-listed, 3rd rank). “Public contestation over European integration”. | 02/2014 |
| University of Bern, SPSA Annual Meeting. Presentation of the paper “Explaining Changing Patterns of European Integration Attitudes”. | 01/2014 |