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Klaus Armingeon is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. Their research portfolio includes topics in European Union policy and governance, social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, populism and right-wing movements, social and cultural dynamics, as well as decision-making and behavioral economics.

The scientist has published papers in several notable venues including Comparative European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Political Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, and European Union Politics. Their recent research outputs feature the following publications:

  • Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU (2022, Comparative European Politics)
  • Trade-offs between redistribution and environmental protection: the role of information, ideology, and self-interest (2020, Journal of European Public Policy)
  • Objective Conditions Count, Political Beliefs Decide: The Conditional Effects of Self-Interest and Ideology on Redistribution Preferences (2021, Political Studies)
  • Redistributive preferences: Why actual income is ultimately more important than perceived income (2021, Journal of European Social Policy)
  • Fiscal solidarity: The conditional role of political knowledge (2020, European Union Politics)

Klaus Armingeon has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as David Weisstanner, Reto Bürgisser, Sarah Engler, Desmond Dinan, and Elke Heins. The collaborations with Weisstanner have been particularly notable, featuring several joint publications.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to book publications. A significant work includes the "Comparative Political Data Set 1960-1996," published by the University of Bern in 2024.

Their main fields of study encompass 20 publications primarily within social sciences, especially concentrating on political science and international relations with 16 works, alongside sociology and political science, social psychology, general decision sciences, and management, monitoring, policy and law.

Best Publications

  • Democracy in crisis? The declining support for national democracy in European countries, 2007-2011

    Klaus Armingeon;Kai Guthmann

  • The loss of trust in the European Union during the great recession since 2007: The role of heuristics from the national political system

    Klaus Armingeon;Besir Ceka

  • Political Economy of the Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Limits of Internal Devaluation

    Klaus Armingeon;Lucio Baccaro

  • The effects of negotiation democracy: A comparative analysis

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Conditional Punishment: A Comparative Analysis of the Electoral Consequences of Welfare State Retrenchment in OECD Nations, 1980–2003

    Klaus Armingeon;Nathalie Giger

  • Social Inequality in Political Participation: The Dark Sides of Individualisation

    Klaus Armingeon;Lisa Schädel

  • The Politics of Fiscal Responses to the Crisis of 2008–2009

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Staat und Arbeitsbeziehungen : ein internationaler Vergleich

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Political participation and associational involvement

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Comparative Political Data Set 1, 1960-2009

    Klaus Armingeon;David Weisstanner;Sarah Engler;Panajotis Potolodis

  • Institutionalising the Swiss welfare state

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Swiss corporatism in comparative perspective

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Active labour market policy, international organizations and domestic politics

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Swiss Worlds of Welfare

    Klaus Armingeon;Fabio Bertozzi;Giuliano Bonoli

  • Voices from the past: economic and political vulnerabilities in the making of next generation EU

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  • Die Entwicklung der westdeutschen Gewerkschaften, 1950-1985

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Staat und Arbeitsbeziehungen

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Choosing the path of austerity: how parties and policy coalitions influence welfare state retrenchment in periods of fiscal consolidation

    Klaus Armingeon;Kai Guthmann;David Weisstanner

  • How the Euro divides the union: the effect of economic adjustment on support for democracy in Europe

    Klaus Armingeon;Kai Guthmann;David Weisstanner

  • The Sorrows of Young Euro: Policy Responses to the Sovereign Debt Crisis

    Klaus Armingeon;Lucio Baccaro

  • Die Politische Ökonomie der Arbeitslosigkeit

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz. Die politischen Systeme im Vergleich

    Klaus Armingeon;Markus Freitag

  • Wie der Euro Europa spaltet. Die Krise der gemeinsamen Währung und die Entfremdung von der Demokratie in der Europäischen Union

    Klaus Armingeon;Kai Guthmann;David Weisstanner

  • Karrierewege der Professoren und Professorinnen der Politikwissenschaft in der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Die Entwicklung der schweizerischen Altersvorsorge

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Der Schweizer Rechtsextremismus im internationalen Vergleich

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Politische Voraussetzungen von Austeritätspolitik: Ein internationaler Vergleich von 17 etablierten Demokratien zwischen 1978 und 2009

    Klaus Armingeon;David Weisstanner;Kai Guthmann

  • Die politische Rolle der Verbände in modernen Demokratien. Fünf Thesen

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Konkordanzzwänge und Nebenregierungen als Handlungshindernisse

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Austeritätspolitik: Was Parteien bewirken und Märkte mögen

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Interessengruppen und Interessenvermittlung: Internationale Gemeinsamkeiten und österreichische Besonderheiten

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Sozialer Wandel und politische Stabilität: politische Einstellungen von Arbeitnehmern in der Schweiz

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Die Schweiz und Europa

    Klaus Armingeon;Richard Jones

  • Die Ausbreitung der Aktiengesellschaft und der Wandel des Wohlfahrtsstaates und der Arbeitsbeziehungen

    Klaus Armingeon

  • Wirtschaftspolitik in der Schweiz: Erosion eines Modells

    Klaus Armingeon;Patrick Emmenegger

  • Wirtschaft und Politik in der Schweiz

    Klaus Armingeon;Frank Bodmer;Silvio Borner;Hans Peter Fagagnini

  • Globalisierung und der Handlungsspielraum der nationalen Arbeitsmarktpolitik

    Klaus Armingeon

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Newton
Kenneth Newton University of Southampton
Hans Keman
Hans Keman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ian Budge
Ian Budge University of Essex
Lucio Baccaro
Lucio Baccaro Max Planck Society
Anne Peters
Anne Peters Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Patrick Emmenegger
Patrick Emmenegger University of St. Gallen
Andreas Diekmann
Andreas Diekmann Leipzig University
Giuliano Bonoli
Giuliano Bonoli University of Lausanne
Herbert Obinger
Herbert Obinger University of Bremen
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut

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