Publications

Edited volume

Mach, André, Araujo, Pedro, Benz, Pierre, Debluë, Claire-Lise, Legentilhomme, Geoffroy, Strebel, Michael A. (2024). Élites et pouvoir dans les grandes villes suisses (1890-2020) [Elites and power in large Swiss cities (1890-2020)]. Neuchâtel: Livreo-Alphil. [Link] [.pdf]

Peer-reviewed publications

Benz, Pierre, Strebel, Michael A., di Capua, Roberto, and André Mach (2025).  “The residential patterns of Swiss urban elites. Continuity and change across elite categories (1890-2000),” European Societies 27(2): 205–234. [Link] [.pdf]

Benz, Pierre, Araujo, Pedro, Rossier, Thierry, Strebel, Michael A. (2025).  “The front and the back stage of power: Formal and informal social capital among business elites in the three largest Swiss cities, 1890–2000,” Sociology 59(2): 286–306. [Link] [.pdf]

Strebel, Michael A. (2025). “The political economy of territorial integration referendums.” Territory, Politics, Governance 13(3): 344–364 [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Information]

Benz, Pierre, Araujo, Pedro, Legentilhomme, Geoffroy, Mach, André, Piguet, Steven, Strebel, Michael A. and Widmer, Emilie (2024). “The Swiss patrician families between decline and persistence: Power positions and kinship ties (1890–1957).” Social Science History 48(2): 331–360 [Link] [.pdf].

Kübler, Daniel, Strebel, Michael A., and Marcinkowski, Frank. (2024). “Populism and the scales of statehood. Localism and populist attitudes in Western Europe.” European Political Science Review 16(3): 431–447 [Link] [.pdf] [Data]

Strebel, Michael A. and Schakel, Arjan H. (2024). “When do subnational jurisdictional mergers impact voting?” Political Geography 108: 103033 [Link] [.pdf] [Data]

Strebel, Michael A. and Bundi, Pirmin. (2023). “A policy-centred approach to inter-municipal cooperation.” Public Management Review 25(10): 1859-1880 [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Information]

Antoniazza, Baptiste, Mach, André and Strebel, Michael A. (2023). “The urban left in power: Comparing the profiles of ‘municipal socialists’ and the ‘new urban left’ in Swiss cities.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 47(5): 745-772 [Link] [.pdf]

Strebel, Michael A. and Mach, André. (2023). “From local champions to global players: A long-term perspective on Swiss companies’ connections across territorial scales.” Global Networks 23(4): 832-848 [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Information] [Data]

el-Wakil, Alice and Strebel, Michael A. (2022). “Participatory processes and their outcomes: Comparing assembly and popular vote decisions.” European Political Science Review 14(3): 441-458 [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Information]
→ Honorable mention for the  of the EPSR Early Careers Prize 2023 of the European Consortium for Political Research.

Strebel, Michael A. (2022). “Who supports metropolitan integration? Citizens’ perceptions of city-regional governance in Western Europe.” West European Politics 45(5): 1081-1106 [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Information]
→ Winner of the Young Scholar Award 2018 of the European Urban Research Association.

Strebel, Michael A. and Kübler, Daniel. (2021). “Citizens’ attitudes towards local autonomy and inter-local cooperation: Evidence from Western Europe.” Comparative European Politics 19(2): 188-207. [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Materials]

Strebel, Michael A. (2019). “Why voluntary municipal merger projects fail: Evidence from popular votes in Switzerland.” Local Government Studies 45 (5): 654-675. [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Materials]

Strebel, Michael A., Kübler, Daniel and Marcinkowski, Frank. (2019). “The importance of input and output legitimacy in democratic governance. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment in four West European countries.” European Journal of Political Research 58 (2): 488-513. [Link] [.pdf] [Supplementary Materials] [Data]

Strebel, Michael A. (2018). “Incented voluntary municipal mergers as a two-stage process: Evidence from the Swiss canton of Fribourg.” Urban Affairs Review 54 (2): 267-301. [Link] [.pdf]

Other publications

Antoniazza, Baptiste, Mach, André and Strebel, Michael A. (2024). “Das Profil der PolitikerInnen linker Parteien in grossen Schweizer Städten, 1910-2020.” Social Change in Switzerland 38. [Link] [.pdf]

Strebel, Michael A., Antoniazza, Baptiste and Mach, André (2021). “Getting rid of their ties: The long-term evolution of elite networks and profiles in the three largest Swiss cities, 1890-2020.” Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 61: 161-180 [Link] [.pdf]

Book reviews

Strebel, Michael A. (2024). “Restrained Radicals: Populist radical right parties in local government.” Political Studies Review 22(4): NP5–NP6 [Link] [.pdf]

Strebel, Michael A. (2023). “Direkte Demokratie in den Gemeinden.” Swiss Political Science Review 29(4): 488-491. [Link] [.pdf]

Strebel, Michael A. (2019). “Close to home: Local ties and voting radical right in Europe.” Swiss Political Science Review 25(2): 195-198. [Link] [.pdf]

PhD dissertation

Strebel, Michael A. (2019). Public support for metropolitan integration. Citizens’ attitudes in eight West European metropolitan areas, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts. [Link]

Data
Mach, André, Ginalski, Stéphanie, Davoine, Eric, Leimgruber, Matthieu, , Strebel, Michael A., Piguet, Steven, Araujo, Pedro, and Benz, Pierre (2025). “OBELIS Swiss Local Elites (Basel, Geneva and Zurich)” (Version 1.0) [Data set]. FORS. [Link]

Kübler, Daniel, Lavenex, Sandra, Buess, Michael, Welge, Rebecca, Strebel, Michael A., Bernauer, Thomas, Ewert, Christian, Freyburg, Tina, Mohrenberg, Steffen, and Winzen, Thomas (2019). “Democratic governance and citizenship survey.” Distributed by FORS [Link]