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Dr. Sonia Alonso

Portrait Dr. Sonia Alonso (Foto: David Ausserhofer)
Research Fields
  • New and established democracies
  • Inclusion of ethnic minorities into democratic politics
  • Ethnicity
  • Ethnic politics
  • Democratisation
Contact
fon: +49 30 25491 266
fax: +49 30 25491 345
mail: alonso [at] wzb [dot] eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Research Fellow of the Research Unit
Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges
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since September 2004
Research fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges"

September 2001 - August 2004
Postdoctoral researcher, University Carlos III (Madrid), Department of Political Science and Sociology

September 1999 - August 2001
Senior associate member, Oxford University, St. Antony's College

since June 1998
Doctor member, Juan March Institute (Madrid)


Selected Publications
  • Alonso, Sonia (2012): Challenging the State. Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility - A Comparison of Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Comparative Politics Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, XIV, 262 S.
  • Alonso, Sonia/Fonseca, Sara (2011): "Immigration, Left and Right". In: Party Politics.
  • Alonso, Sonia/Keane, John/Merkel, Wolfgang (Eds.) (2011): The Future of Representative Democracy. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, XIV, 307 S.
  • Alonso, Sonia (2008): "Enduring Ethnicity. The Political Survival of Incumbent Ethnic Parties in Western Democracies". In: José María Maravall/Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (Eds.): Controlling Governments. Voters, Institutions, and Accountability. Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, S. 82-104
  • Alonso, Sonia/Ruiz-Rufino, Rubén (2007): "Political Representation and Ethnic Conflict in New Democracies". In: European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 46, No. 2, S. 237-267.
Projects

2010-2013
Europeans' understandings and evaluations of democracy,
European Social Survey Question Module, Round 6.
Principal investigator: Hans-Peter Kriesi (University of Zürich).
Team: Sonia Alonso (WZB), Mónica Ferrín (European University Institute, Florence), Pedro Magalhães (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa University) and Leonardo Morlino (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane).     

2009-2012
Regional Manifestos Project. Extending the Manifesto Dataset to Sub-national Elections (the case of Spain), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (CSO 2609-11241).
Project co-ordinators: Sonia Alonso (WZB) and Braulio Gómez (IESA-CSIC).
Webpage of the project: www.regionalmanifestosproject.com

2001-2004
Voters, Governments and Institutions. Studies in Empirical Democratic Theory, Juan March Institute of Study and Research.
Project Directors: Prof. José María Maravall, Prof. Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca.