Affiliated Professor, Political Science
Ph.D. University of St.Gallen
M.A. University of Zurich
Office: Lowerre Academic Center, Office 5
Phone: +41 91 986 36 38
Email: ostrijbis@fus.edu
Oliver Strijbis is an Affiliated Professor in Political Science at Franklin University and a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant professor at the University of Zurich. Strijbis received his doctorate in International Affairs and Political Economy from the University of St.Gallen. Strijbis has been head of the SNSF funded research project "The Effect of Campaign Events on Direct Democratic Decisions: Evidence from Forecast Markets", a principal investigator of the research project “Ethnic Voting in Latin America” (funded by the German Research Foundation), head of the research project “Scientific Analysis of the Effect of Ballot Paper Design and List Position on Voting Behavior in the
Canton of St.Gallen” on behalf of the State Chancellery of the Canton of St. Gallen, and co-leader of “The Swiss Political Survey Garage”. In his research, Strijbis focuses on elections and direct democratic votes, migration and nationalism, comparative methods and prediction markets. He is an editor of Struggle over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism (Cambridge University Press) and has published more than twenty peer-reviewed journal articles. Strijbis has been an appointed member of the Appointed member of the Carlos III-Juan March Institute (IC3JM), has received a Young Scholar Award for the best Journal Article, and a Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellowship for Young Researchers. Strijbis is a dedicated lecturer and has received training in higher education with regards to Adaptive Leadership, Supervision in Higher Education, Gamification, and Didactica Mobile Voting and Feedback Systems, among others.
Professional Experience
10/2017 – SNSF Professor (assistant professor), Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich (interrupted between 09/2020 and 08/2021)
09/2020 – 08/2021 Guest Professor for Comparative Politics, Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich
10/2015 – 08/2017 Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III of Madrid
01/2014 – 09/2015 Senior Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
10/2011 – 09/2015 Co-founder and member of the board of Principe Consulting GmbH, Maur, Switzerland
10/2011 – 09/2014 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg
10/2010 – 09/2011 Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
01/2010 – 07/2010 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Political Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
10/2007 – 09/2010 Research Assistant, Institute of Politcal Science, University of St.Gallen
Areas of Research:
Strijbis focuses on elections and direct democratic votes, migration and nationalism, comparative methods and prediction markets. He is also a co-director of the Franklin Political Risk and Opportunity Index (FRISKOP).
Publications:
Oliver Strijbis, forthcoming, “Deindustrialization Fosters Ethnic Mobilization: A Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Minority Parties in Western Europe, 1918-2008”, European Political Science Review.
Maxime Walder and Oliver Strijbis, forthcoming, “Negative Party Identification and the Use of Party Cues in the Direct Democratic Context”, Politics and Governance 10(4).
Grossmann, Igor, et al. [139 authors], forthcoming, "Estimating Scientists’ Forecasting Accuracy of Societal Change: Insights from Two Large-scale Forecasting Tournaments", Nature Human Behaviour.
Oliver Strijbis and Sveinung Arnesen, 2021, "Explaining variance in the accuracy of prediction markets", International Journal of Forecasting 35(1), 408-419.
Oliver Strijbis, 2021, “Citizenship, Migration, and Voting Behavior”, p. 284–302 in Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso, eds., Handbook of Citizenship and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Oliver Strijbis and Siri Völker, forthcoming, “Candidate resources rather than ethnic voting: Explaining the underrepresentation of Afro-Brazilians”, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.
Oliver Strijbis, Joshua Helmer, and Pieter De Wilde, 2020, “A Cosmopolitan− Communitarian Cleavage around the World? Evidence from Ideological Polarization and Party-Voter Linkages”, Acta Politica 55(3), 408-431.
Pieter DeWilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, and Michael Zürn, 2019, Struggle over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism, Cambridge University Press.
Nenad Stojanovic and Oliver Strijbis, 2019, "Incentives for cross–ethnic voting in multi-member majoritarian elections: Evidence from a natural experiment", European Political Science Review 11(2), 197-212.
Oliver Strijbis, 2019, "Assimilation or social mobility? Explaining ethnic boundary crossing between the Ecuadorian 2001 and 2010 census", Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(12), 2027-2046.
Aline Hirseland and Oliver Strijbis, 2019, “'We were forgotten'. The effect of linkages between indigenous peoples and political parties on ethnic voting in Bolivia", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(11), 2006-2025.
Oliver Strijbis and Javier Polavieja, 2018, "Immigrants against immigration: Competition, Identity and Immigrants’ Vote on Free Movement in Switzerland", Electoral Studies 56, 150–157.
Oliver Strijbis, Céline Teney, and Marc Helbling, 2019, "Why are elites more cosmopolitan than masses?", p. 37-64 in Pieter DeWilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, and Michael Zürn, eds., Struggle over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism, Cambridge University Press.
Oliver Strijbis, 2019, "Who is the most frequent traveller? The cosmopolitanism of national, European, and global elites", Chapter 5 in Pieter DeWilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, and Michael Zürn, eds., Struggle over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism, Cambridge University Press.
Bernhard Wessels and Oliver Strijbis, 2019, "Mass opinions: Globalization and issues as axes of contention", p. 65-88 in Pieter DeWilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, and Michael Zürn, eds., Struggle over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism, Cambridge University Press.
Sean Westwood, Shanto Iyengar, Stefan Walgrave, Luis Miller, Rafael Leonisio, and Oliver Strijbis, 2018, “The Ties That Divide: Cross-National Evidence of the Primacy of Partyism”, European Journal of Political Research 57(2), 333-354.
Oliver Strijbis, Rafael Leonisio, and Sveinung Arnesen, 2018, "¿Es estratégico el votante español? Análisis del voto de coaliciones con un mercado de predicción", p. 395–414 in Francisco Llera (Ed.): Las Elecciones Generales 2015 y 2016. CIS.
"Wie weltoffen ist Deutschland?", 2018, with Marc Helbling, Study commissioned by Bertelsmann Stiftung.
"Elite survey of the Bridging Project ‘The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism’; Technical Report", with Céline Teney, Sarah Carol and Senem Tepe. WZB Discussion Paper SP VI 2018–105.
Oliver Strijbis, 2017, "Nicht was Du denkst! Was wir von Wahlvorhersagen wirklich lernen können", Politische Vierteljahresschrift 58(3), 442-451.
Oliver Strijbis, 2017, "Wenn AusländerInnen wählen und abstimmen dürften: Überlegungen anhand von aktuellen Umfragedaten", p. 57–72 in Andreas Glaser (Ed.): Politische Rechte für Ausländerinnen und Ausländer?. Schulthess Verlag.
Oliver Strijbis, Sveinung Arnesen, and Laurent Bernhard, 2016, “Using prediction market data for measuring the expected closeness in electoral research”, Electoral Studies 44, 144-150.
Rafael Leonisio, and Oliver Strijbis, 2016, “La polarización bidimensional”, p. 161–174 in Francisco J. Llera (Ed.): Las elecciones autonómicas en el País Vasco, 1980-2012. CIS.
Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Eds.), 2015, Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013, Springer DE.
Sveinung Arnesen and Oliver Strijbis, 2015, “Accuracy and Bias in European Prediction Markets”, Italian Journal of Applied Statistics 25(2), 123-138.
Oliver Strijbis, 2015, “Beyond Opportunity Structures: Explaining Migrant Protest in Western Europe, 1975-2005”, Comparative Migration Studies 3(5), 1-22.
Oliver Strijbis and Michal Kotnarowski, 2015, “Measuring the Electoral Mobilization of Ethnic Parties: Towards Comparable Indicators”, Party Politics 21(3), 456-469.
Kai-Uwe Schnapp and Oliver Strijbis, 2015, “Fazit”, p. 197–205 in Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Eds.): Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013. Springer VS.
Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp, 2015, “Einleitung: Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013”, p. 1–14 in Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Eds.): Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013. Springer VS.
Oliver Strijbis, 2015, “Aktivierung und Überzeugung durch Wahlkampfereignisse”, p. 15–32 in Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Eds.): Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013. Springer VS.
Oliver Strijbis, Tom Paltins and Agibou Bouare, 2015, “Haben die Umfragen das Wahlergebnis beeinflusst? Strategisches Wählen und Mitläufereffekte bei der Bundestagswahl 2013”, p. 177–194 in Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Eds.): Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013. Springer VS.
"The Limited Impact of Supranational Integration on Ethnonationalism; Evidence from the Hungarian minority in Romania", 2016, with Raphael Baumgartner and Jutta Höhne, Euskobarometro Working Paper 2.
Oliver Strijbis, 2014, “Migration Background and Voting Behavior: A Socio-Psychological Explanation”, Swiss Political Science Review 20(4), 612–631.
Rafael Leonisio and Oliver Strijbis, 2014, “Beyond self-placement: Why the nationalist and not the left-right divide explains electoral behavior in the Basque Country”, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociologicas (REIS) 146, 47-68.
Oliver Strijbis, 2013, “Prototypical Weighting: Towards a Solution for Macro-Sociological Comparisons of Fuzzy Cases”, Journal of Sociological Methods and Research 42(4), 458-482. (Awarded as the best article of a junior researcher by the Swiss Political Science Association)
Oliver Strijbis, 2013, “Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy, by Laurent Bernhard, Palgrave Macmillan (2012); Political Communication in Direct Democratic Campaigns: Enlightening Or Manipulating? by Hanspeter Kriesi (ed), Palgrave Macmillan (2012)”, Swiss Political Science Review 19 (2), 255-257.
Daniele Caramani and Oliver Strijbis, 2012, “Discrepant Electorates: The Inclusiveness of Electorates and Its Impact on the Representation of Citizens”, Parliamentary Affairs 66(2), 384-404.
Oliver Strijbis and Rafael Leonisio, 2012, “Cleavages in the Basque Country: Meaning and Salience”, Regional and Federal Studies 22(5), 595-611.
Rafael Leonisio and Oliver Strijbis, 2012, “El problema de la traducción en el análisis cuantitativo de textos. Aplicación de wordscores y wordfish a las mociones de censura contra el Lehendakari Ibarretxe”, with Rafael Leonisio, Revista Española de Ciencia Política 30, 111-120.
Beatrice Eugster and Oliver Strijbis, 2011, “The Swiss: A Political Nation?”, Swiss Political Science Review 17(4), 394-416.
Rafael Leonisio and Oliver Strijbis, 2011, “Izquierda-Derecha vs Centro-Periferia: una aproximación al discurso de los partidos políticos vascos (1977-2009)”, Revista Española de Ciencia Política 26, 63-85.
Oliver Strijbis, 2011, “Aktiv, links und herkunftsorientiert: Die politische Partizipation der Personen mit Migrationshintergrund Türkei aus vergleichender Perspektive”, p. 168-186 in Hans-Lukas Kieser, Mustafa Ideli, and Virginia Reich Suter (Eds.): Migration Türkei-Schweiz: Neue Menschenlandschaften. Zurich: Chronos.
Awards and Honors:
Appointed member of the Carlos III-Juan March Institute (IC3JM) (11/2015 – 08/2017)
Young Scholar Award for the best Journal Article 2014 by the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW)
Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellowship for Young Researchers (2010)