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Marco R. Steenbergen

Marco R. Steenbergen

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Political Science
Switzerland
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
41
Citations
15477
World Ranking
443
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Marco R. Steenbergen is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in the Social Sciences, particularly Political Science and International Relations. Their research touches upon key subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Statistics and Probability, and General Social Sciences.

Their main research topics include:

  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

Steenbergen's recent publication record features several works across notable journals. These include:

  • "Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999-2019," 2021, Electoral Studies
  • "The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West: How populism and EU-skepticism shape party support for Ukraine," 2024, European Union Politics
  • "Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid-19 pandemic," 2022, European Journal of Political Research
  • "The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey," 2022, British Journal of Political Science
  • "Heuristics and Biases in Political Decision Making," 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

Their frequent co-authors consist of the following scholars:

  • Liesbet Hooghe
  • Jan Rovný
  • Gary Marks
  • Ryan Bakker
  • Jonathan Polk

Steenbergen has contributed to several prominent publication venues, including:

  • British Journal of Political Science
  • UNC Libraries
  • Electoral Studies
  • European Union Politics
  • European Journal of Political Research

Among their book publications is the work titled Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Modeling Multilevel Data Structures

    Marco R. Steenbergen;Bradford S. Jones

  • Measuring party positions in Europe: The Chapel Hill expert survey trend file, 1999-2010

    Ryan Bakker;Catherine de Vries;Erica Edwards;Liesbet Hooghe

  • The Responsive Voter: Campaign Information and the Dynamics of Candidate Evaluation

    Milton Lodge;Marco R. Steenbergen;Shawn Brau

  • Deliberative Politics in Action: Analyzing Parliamentary Discourse

    Jürg Steiner;André Bächtiger;Markus Spörndli;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Measuring Political Deliberation: A Discourse Quality Index

    Marco R Steenbergen;André Bächtiger;Markus Spörndli;Jürg Steiner;Jürg Steiner

  • Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data

    Jonathan Polk;Jan Rovny;Ryan Bakker;Erica Edwards

  • Disentangling Diversity in Deliberative Democracy: Competing Theories, their Blind Spots, and Complementarities

    André Bächtiger;Simon Niemeyer;Michael Neblo;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Reliability and validity of the 2002 and 2006 Chapel Hill expert surveys on party positioning

    Liesbet Hooghe;Ryan Bakker;Anna Brigevich;Catherine De vries

  • Who’s Cueing Whom? Mass-Elite Linkages and the Future of European Integration

    Marco R. Steenbergen;Erica E. Edwards;Catherine E. de Vries

  • European integration and political conflict

    Gary W Marks;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • The Humanitarian Foundation of Public Support for Social Welfare

    Stanley Feldman;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Evaluating expert judgments

    Marco R. Steenbergen;Gary Marks

  • The ambivalent partisan : how critical loyalty promotes democracy

    Howard G. Lavine;Christopher D. Johnston;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Mean voter representation and partisan constituency representation: Do parties respond to the mean voter position or to their supporters?

    Lawrence Ezrow;Catherine De Vries;Marco Steenbergen;Erica Edwards

  • Crossvalidating data on party positioning on European integration

    Gary W Marks;Gary W Marks;Liesbet Hooghe;Liesbet Hooghe;Marco R. Steenbergen;Ryan Bakker

  • Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019

    Seth Jolly;Ryan Bakker;Liesbet Hooghe;Gary Marks

  • Understanding political contestation in the European Union

    Gary Marks;Marco Steenbergen

  • European Integration and Political Conflict: Contesting Europe? The salience of European integration as a party issue

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  • The Life and Death of Public Organizations: A Question of Institutional Design?

    Arjen Boin;Sanneke Kuipers;Marco Steenbergen

  • The Deliberative Dimensions of Legislatures

    André Bächtiger;Markus Spörndli;Marco R Steenbergen;Jürg Steiner

  • All Against All: How Beliefs about Human Nature Shape Foreign Policy Opinions

    Paul R. Brewer;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • How the world votes: The political consequences of ballot design, innovation and manipulation

    Andrew Reynolds;Marco R. Steenbergen

  • Deliberative Politics in Action: Contents

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  • Mass-Elite Linkages and the Future of European Integration

    Marco R. Steenbergen;Erica E. Edwards;Catherine E. de Vries

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Marks
Gary Marks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
André Bächtiger
André Bächtiger University of Stuttgart
Liesbet Hooghe
Liesbet Hooghe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Milada Anna Vachudova
Milada Anna Vachudova University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arjen Boin
Arjen Boin Leiden University
Simon Niemeyer
Simon Niemeyer University of Canberra
Lawrence Ezrow
Lawrence Ezrow University of Essex
Stanley Feldman
Stanley Feldman Stony Brook University

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