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Sonja ZMERLI

University professor

Political sociology

Laboratory(ies): CESICE

Keywords

  • Comparative policy
  • Political psychology

Current Projects

ERC POLINEQUAL

Publications

Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe

Christopher Claassen , Sascha Göbel , Antonia Lang , Kathrin Ackermann , Petar Bankov , Kevin Brookes , Bartolomeo Cappellina , Christopher Carman , Markus Freitag , Rubén García del Horno , Enrique Hernández , Guillem Rico , Sigrid Rossteutscher , Richard Traunmüller , Michael Webb , Sonja Zmerli , Alina Zumbrunn

Electoral Studies, 2025, 95, pp. 1029–12. 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912

Representations of economic inequality in comparative perspective: How welfare state institutions, social norms and political discourse shape perceptions of inequality

Sonja Zmerli

Challenges in Democratic Societies: Political Polarization and Economic Inequality: Second Conference on Political Science, Office of International Affairs (OIA); Université Grenoble Alpes, November 2024, Virtual, France

Defining Political (or Vertical) Trust across the Disciplines

Sonja Zmerli

Understanding Political Trust from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, University of Birmingham, The Institute of Advanced Studies, October 2024, Online, United Kingdom

Explanations of economic inequality as a driver of emotional distress

Franco Bastias , Sonja Zmerli

18th Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe”: Fears, Worries, and Anxieties in Contemporary Europe. Is There a Societal Climate Change and What Are the Consequences for Quality of Life?, Italian-German Center for European Dialogue, Oct 2024, Loveno di Menaggio (CO), Italy

Facets of economic inequality and redistributive preferences: Assessing the role of emotions

Franco Bastias , Sonja Zmerli

ECPR Standing Group on Political Culture (SGPC) Seminar Series, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), September 2024, Online, United Kingdom