Publications

Book

• Van der Brug, Wouter, Gianni D’Amato, Joost Berkhout, and Didier Ruedin, eds. 2015. The Politicisation of Immigration. Abingdon: Routledge. -- Book Review

Journal Articles

• Van der Brug, Wouter, and Joost Berkhout. 2024. ‘Patterns of Politicization Following Triggering Events: The Indirect Effect of Issue-Owning Challengers’. Frontiers in Political Science 6 (April). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1314217.

• Carvalho, João, Mariana Carmo Duarte, and Didier Ruedin. 2024. ‘Follow the Media? News Environment and Public Concern about Immigration’. European Journal of Political Research. Forthcoming.

• Hadj Abdou, Leila, and Didier Ruedin. 2023. ‘Migration debates in the Political Party Arena during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Austria’. Governance. http://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12842.

• Bitschnau, Marco, Leslie Ader, Didier Ruedin, and Gianni D’Amato. 2021. “Politicising Immigration in Times of Crisis: Empirical Evidence from Switzerland.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Online First. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1936471.

• Hadj-Abdou, Leila, and Didier Ruedin. 2020. ‘The Austrian People’s Party: An Anti-Immigrant Right Party?’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Forthcoming. DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2020.1853904

• Carvalho, João, and Mariana Carmo Duarte. 2020. ‘The Politicization of Immigration in Portugal between 1995 and 2014: A European Exception?’ JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13048.

• Ruedin, Didier. 2019. ‘South African Parties Hardly Politicise Immigration in Their Electoral Manifestos’. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies. DOI:10.1080/02589346.2019.1608713

• Carvalho, J. and Ruedin, D. 2018. ‘The Positions Mainstream Left Parties Adopt on Immigration: A Crosscutting Cleavage?’, Party Politics. Forthcoming. DOI:10.1177/1354068818780533

• Ruedin, Didier, and Laura Morales. 2017. “Estimating Party Positions on Immigration: Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Different Methods.” Party Politics. Forthcoming. DOI: 10.1177/1354068817713122

• Van Heerden, Sjoerdje C., and Wouter van der Brug, ‘Demonisation and electoral support for populist radical right parties: A temporary effect’. Electoral Studies. 47(6): 36-45.

• Ruedin, Didier. 2017. Citizenship regimes and the politicization of immigrant groups. Austrian Journal of Political Sciences. 46(1):7-19. DOI: 10.15203/ozp.1591.vol46iss1

• Berkhout, Joost, and Didier Ruedin. 2017. Why Religion? Immigrant Groups as Objects of Political Claims on Immigration and Civic Integration in Western Europe, 1995–2009. Acta Politica. 52(2): 156-178. DOI: 10.1057/ap.2016.1

• Wouter van der Brug , Joost Berkhout. 2015.  The Effect of Associative Issue Ownership on Parties’ Presence in the News Media. West European Politics. 38(4). DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2015.1039379

• Meyer, Sarah, Sieglinde Rosenberger. 2015. Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009. Politics and Governance. 3(2). DOI: 10.17645/pag.v3i2.64

• Ruedin, Didier. 2015. Increasing Validity by Recombining Existing Indices: MIPEX as a Measure of Citizenship Models. Social Science Quarterly. 96(2): 629-638. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12162

• Morales, Laura, Jean-Benoit Pilet, and Didier Ruedin. 2015. The Gap between Public Preferences and Policies on Immigration: A Comparative Examination of the Effect of Politicization on Policy Congruence. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 41(9):1495-1516.  DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1021598

• Ruedin, Didier, Camilla Alberti, and Gianni D’Amato. 2015. Immigration and integration policy in Switzerland, 1848 to 2014. Swiss Political Science Review. 21(1): 5-22. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12144

• Morales, L., Pardos-Prado, S., Ros, V. 2014. Issue emergence and the dynamics of electoral competition around immigration in Spain. Acta Politica. DOI: 10.1057/ap.2014.33

• Ruedin, D. 2013. The Role of Language in the Automatic Coding of Political Texts, Swiss Political Science Review. 19(4): 539-45. DOI:10.1111/spsr.12050

• Ruedin, D. 2013. Obtaining Party Positions on Immigration in Switzerland: Comparing Different Methods. Swiss Political Science Review., 19(1): 84-105. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12018

Book Chapters

• D’Amato, Gianni, and Didier Ruedin. 2018. “Immigration and Populist Political Strategies: The Swiss Case in a European Perspective.” Pp. 48–65 in Populism and the Crisis of Democracy. Vol. 3 Migration, Gender and Religion, edited by G. Fitzi, J. Mackert, and B. S. Turner. Abingdon: Routledge.

• Rosenberger, Sieglinde, and Didier Ruedin. 2017. ‘The Politicization of Asylum Seekers and Other Immigrant Groups in a Comparative Perspective’. In Asylrecht Als Experimentierfeld: Eine Analyse Seiner Besonderheiten Aus Vergleichender Sicht, edited by Franz Merli and Magdalena Pöschl, 13–26. Wien: Verlag Manz.

• Cunningham, Kevin. 2014. “Policy Shifts and the Depoliticization of Immigration.” In Enacting Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Integration, edited by Louis Brennan. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Sarah Meyer & Teresa Peintinger: (K)eine Stimme für MigrantInnen? Inklusion und Exklusion in der Politisierung von Migration. In: Ilker Atac/Sieglinde Rosenberger (Hg.): Politik der Inklusion und Exklusion. Wien: V&R unipress, S. 177-196 [ Review of the Book ]

Working Papers and Related Publications

• Rosenberger, Sieglinde, Verena Stern, and Nina Merhaut, eds. 2018. Protest Movements in Asylum and Deportation. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer International Publishing.

• Morales, L. & Ros, V. 2013. La politización de la inmigración en España en perspectiva comparada, Documentos CIDOB Migraciones, n.º 25.

• Roger Eatwell's new book The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain (edited by Roger Eatwell and Matthew J Goodwin, published by Routledge)

• We are pleased to announce further working papers in the SOM Working Paper Series.

• We are pleased to announce the first papers in the SOM Working Paper Series. Our instructions for data collection are available as working papers in the case of the codebook and the political opportunity structure (POS), and separately in the case of the demographics of immigration.