Conference Papers (sélection)

• Zmerli, Sonja (2016): The Activists of the Arab Spring: Democratic Avantgarde or fighting for socio-economic justice? An Egyptian-Tunisian comparison. Presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 13th to 16th July 2016, Warsaw, Poland.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2015): Wer vertraut der ‘Lügenpresse’? Mediennutzung und Medienvertrauen im deutsch-deutschen Vergleich. Presentation at the panel „Medien(un)freiheit – und ihre Folgen“ at the DVPW-Congress, 21st to 25th September 2015, Duisburg, Germany.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2015): Social Trust in Times of Economic Crisis. Assessing the Relevance of Inequality and European Economic Governance. Presentation at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, 8th to 10th July 2015, Paris, France.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2015): Unequal Non-Institutional Participation: Investigating the Impact of Inequalities in Trust and Income. Presentation at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 3rd to 6th July 2015, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2014): Opinions on EU Economic Governance. Paper presented at the International Workshop “The Future of Europe: Good Friends Drifting Apart?”, 27th to 29th November 2014, Como, Italy.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2014): Social Cohesion and Democracy in Times of Economic Crisis: How European Economic Governance Affects Perceptions of Social Cohesion and Political Support. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, 3rd to 6th September 2014, Glasgow, UK.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2014): Democracy and Equality in Times of Economic Crisis: How European Economic Governance Affects Perceptions of Social Cohesion and Political Support. Paper accepted for presentation at the 23rd World Congress of Political Science of the International Political Science Association, 19th to 24th July 2014, Montréal, Canada, (not attended).
• Zmerli, Sonja (2014): Social Cohesion and Democracy in Times of Economic Crisis: How European Economic Governance Affects Perceptions of Social Cohesion and Political Support. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 4th to 7th July 2014, Rome, Italy.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2014): Democracy and Equality in Times of Economic Crisis: How European Economic Governance Affects Perceptions of Social Cohesion and Political Support. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research, 19th to 22nd June 2014, New York, USA.
• Zmerli, Sonja, Castillo, Juan Carlos (2013): Income Inequality and Social Trust in Latin American Societies. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, 4th to 7th September 2013, Bordeaux, France.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2013): Convergence or Divergence. Trends and Determinants of Political Support in Europe. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 8th to 11th July 2013, Herzliya, Israel.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2013): Convergence or Divergence. Trends and Determinants of Political Support in Europe. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian-Dutch Association of Political Science (Politicologen Etmaal), 30th to 31st May 2013, Ghent, Belgium.
• Zmerli, Sonja (2012): Konvergenz oder Divergenz? Entwicklungsverläufe und Determinanten politischer Unterstützung im europäischen Vergleich (Convergence or Divergence? Trends and Determinants of Political Support in European Comparison). Presentation at the Panel “Herausforderungen der repräsentativen Demokratie. Zustand und Perspektiven aus Sicht der Bevölkerung ” (Challenges of Democracy. Situation and Perspectives from the Population’s Viewpoint), at the DVPW-Congress, 24th to 28th September 2012, Tübingen, Germany.
• Corneo, Giacomo, Zmerli, Sonja, Pollak, Reinhard (2012): Country Report Germany. Presentation of Empirical Findings at the GINI Country Report Workshop, 20nd to 21st September 2012, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Castillo, Juan Carlos, Zmerli, Sonja (2012): Inequality and political support. How objective and subjective inequality affects Latin American democracies. Conference paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 30th August to 2nd September 2012, New Orleans, USA (Conference officially cancelled).
• Castillo, Juan Carlos, Zmerli, Sonja (2012): Inequality and political support. How objective and subjective inequality affects Latin American democracies. Paper presented by Juan Carlos Castillo at the 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 6th to 9th July 2012, Chicago, USA.
• Castillo, Juan Carlos, Zmerli, Sonja (2012): Inequality and political support. How objective and subjective inequality affects Latin American democracies. Paper presented at the 22nd World Congress of the International Political Science Association, 8th to 12th July, Madrid, Spain

Invited Colloquia (sélection)

• Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohésion Social (Center for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion) (Santiago, Chile), Research Seminar “Crisis of Political Trust?”, title of presentation: “Political Trust: Conceptual Considerations and Empirical Findings”, March 2015.
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile), Institute of Sociology, Research Colloquium, title of presentation: “Social Cohesion and Democracy in Times of Economic Crises”, March 2015.
• Zukunftsforum Öffentliche Sicherheit e.V. (Berlin, Germany), 24th Forum of Future titled “Trust and Public Security”, title of presentation: “Politisches Vertrauen in Deutschland” (Political Trust in Germany), February 2015.
• Deutsch-Französisches Institut (Ludwigsburg, Germany), XXX. Annual Meeting of the German-French Institute Ludwigsburg: Zivilgesellschaft in Frankreich, Deutschland und Europa. Strukturen, und Akteure, soziale Funktion und politische Rolle zwischen Protest und Partizipation (Civil Society in France, Germany and Europe. Structures and Actors, Social Function and Political Role Between Protest and Participation), title of presentation: “Soziale Kohäsion, Sozialkapital und Zivilgesellschaft” (Social Cohesion, Social Capital and Civil Society), June 2014.
• University Koblenz-Landau (Rauischholzhausen, Germany), Research Group “Kommunikation – Medien – Politik”, title of presentation: “Social and Political Trust: Looking Into the Political Science Laboratory”, November 2013.
• Gothenburg University (Gothenburg, Sweden), Department of Political Science, title of presentation: “Inequality and Political Support. How Objective and Subjective Inequality Affect Latin American Democracies”, November 2012.
• Gothenburg University (Gothenburg, Sweden), School of Public Administration, title of presentation: “Local Contextual Factors as Determinants of Social Trust”, November 2012.