Silja Häusermann is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich where she studies welfare state politics and party system change in advanced capitalist democracies. She is the author of The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe (2010), co-editor of The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (2015), and co-author of Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century: How Social Identities Shape Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment, all with Cambridge University Press.
