Dr. Sonja Zmerli

former staff member
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Research Interests

  • Forms of social involvement and social capital in comparativ
  • Political involvement in comparative perspective

Projects

RP7 A2 Education, Labour Markets and Social Stratification

Network of Excellence "Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion" (EQUALSOC)

RP5 B1 Engagement, Participation, and Voters' Behaviour

Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy: An International Comparison

RP1-3 Department II: Development Trends and Problems of Democratic Government Systems

Citizenship, involvement, democracy (CID)

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Monographs

Zmerli, Sonja (2008): Inklusives und exklusives Sozialkapital in Deutschland. Grundlagen, Erscheinungsformen und Erklärungspotential eines alternativen theoretischen Konzepts. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Studien zur Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung; 4] more

Editions

Poguntke, Thomas, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Sonja Zmerli (Eds.) (2015): Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis: Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth. London, New York: Routledge. [Routledge Research in Comparative Politics; 64] more
van Deth, Jan W., and Sonja Zmerli (Eds.) (2010): Civicness, Equality, and Democracy: A 'Dark Side' of Social Capital? Special Issue of the American Behavioral Scientist 53 (5). Thousand Oaks: Sage. more

Journal Articles

Zmerli, Sonja (2003): Applying the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital to empirical research. European Political Science, 2, issue 3, pp. 68-75. more
Zmerli, Sonja (2002): Rezension: Mark E. Warren: Democracy and Association. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 54, issue 2, pp. 383-385. more

Book Chapters

Poguntke, Thomas, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Sonja Zmerli (2015): Democratic citizenship under challenge. Pp. 241-249 in: Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sonja Zmerli (Eds.) Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis: Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth. London, New York: Routledge. more
Poguntke, Thomas, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Sonja Zmerli (2015): Introduction: Citizenship, participation and democracy in an era of crisis. Pp. 1-11 in: Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sonja Zmerli (Eds.) Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis: Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth. London, New York: Routledge. more
Zmerli, Sonja, Kenneth Newton and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2015): Mass media and political trust in Europe: Testing for ‘rainmaker’ effects. Pp. 75-92 in: Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sonja Zmerli (Eds.) Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis. Essays in honour of Jan W. van Deth. London, New York: Routledge. more
Zmerli, Sonja, Kenneth Newton and José Ramón Montero (2007): Trust in people, confidence in political institutions, and satisfaction with democracy. Pp. 35-65 in: Jan W. van Deth, José Ramón Montero, Anders Westholm (Eds.) Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies. A comparative analysis. London, New York: Routledge. more
Zmerli, Sonja (2004): Politisches Vertrauen und Unterstützung. Pp. 229-255 in: Jan W. van Deth (Ed.) Deutschland in Europa. Wiesbaden: VS Sozialwissenschaften. more

Papers / Reports

Zmerli, Sonja (2002): Different forms? Different effects? The relevance of bonding and bridging aspects of social capital. Exeter, GB [Rusel Papers. Civic Series. New Studies on Social Capital] more
Zmerli, Sonja (2002): Presented paper: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital. A Relevant Concept for Political Participation?. Turin more
Zmerli, Sonja (2002): Presented paper: The Empirical Relevance of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital. An East-West German Comparison. more

Conference Presentations

Zmerli, Sonja (2005): Zivilgesellschaftliche Strukturen in Deutschland - Merkmale, Enststehungsbedingungen und Relevanz für die Demokratie. [Das Programm LOS: Einbindungs-, Aushandlungs- und Kooperationsprozesse in der Kommune, Halle/Saale, July 06th to July 07th, 2005] more
Zmerli, Sonja (2004): 1. Civil society in Germany ten years after - still divided by the socialist legacy? 2. Political confidence in Europe. [Gastvorträge an der sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Katholischen Universität Löwen, Löwen, May 12th to May 13th, 2004] more