
Line Rennwald
Dr.
Senior researcher
Office 5620
+41 (0)21 692 37 71
line.rennwald@fors.unil.ch
Languages: French, English, German
Biography
Line Rennwald is a political scientist with a PhD from the University of Geneva. She joined FORS in 2021 as a senior researcher in the group "Political Surveys" where she is involved in the Swiss Election Study (Selects). Previously, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Amsterdam, Lausanne, and Geneva (ERC Project Unequal Democracies).
Expertise
Line Rennwald's work focuses on the linkages between social cleavages, employment relations and politics in Western Europe. She specialises in voting behaviour, political representation, populism, and Swiss politics, with a particular interest in the effect of social class affiliation, union membership and economic inequalities. She has worked extensively on the class composition of mainstream Left parties and is the author of Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).
Publications
Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered
Bremer Björn, Rennwald Line, 2022/05/12. Party Politics p. 135406882210937. Peer-reviewed.
Preface
Mosimann Nadja, Rennwald Line, Pontusson Jonas, 2022/04/06. West European Politics pp. 1-3.
Class gaps in perceptions of political voice: liberal democracies 1974–2016
Rennwald Line, Pontusson Jonas, 2022/03/29. West European Politics pp. 1-27. Peer-reviewed.
La disyuntiva socialdemócrata: recuperar a los trabajadores o ganar las clases medias
Rennwald Line, 2021/09/13. Agenda Pública.
Social Class, Union Power and Perceptions of Political Voice: Liberal Democracies, 1974-2016
Rennwald Line, Pontusson Jonas, 2021/03/01. Unequal Democracies Working Paper 22 pp. 1-41.
Paper Stones Revisited: Class Voting, Unionization and the Electoral Decline of the Mainstream Left
Rennwald Line, Pontusson Jonas, 2021/03. Perspectives on Politics, 19 (1) pp. 36-54.
Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class : New Voting Patterns
Rennwald Line, 2020., Palgrave Macmillan.
Electoral Competition in Europe's New Tripolar Political Space : Class Voting for the Left, Centre-Right and Radical Right
Oesch Daniel, Rennwald Line, 2018. European Journal of Political Research 57 pp. 783–807. Peer-reviewed.