The Swiss elite observatory hosts a string of research projects funded by the Swiss national science foundation. These projects are related to each other and are based on the same, cumulative database.
Projects
Applicants: André Mach, Adrian Zimmermann, Line Rennwald
Duration: 2022 - 2024
Open Elite Data
Project funded by the Swissuniversities
Applicants: Felix Bühlmann
Collaborators: Anne-Sophie Delval, Steven Piguet, Glen Lomax
Duration: 2023 - 2024
The transformation of the Swiss financial place
Applicants: Felix Bühlmann
Collaborators: Lena Ajdacic (Post-Doc), Johanna Behr, Amal Tawfik
Duration: 2023 - 2027
Sinergia - Local power structures and transnational connections. New perspectives on elites in Switzerland, 1890-2020
Project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Applicants: André Mach (UniL) / Stéphanie Ginalski (UniL) / Eric Davoine (UniFr) / Matthieu Leimgruber (UniZh)
Starting of the project: 1st September 2019
Rockefeller fellows as heralds of globalization: the circulation of elites, knowledge and practices of modernization (1920s-1970s)
Applicant: Ludovic Tournès, Université de Genève
Co-applicants : Thomas David (Université de Lausanne), Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute Genève)
Collaborators : Yi-Tang Lin (Post-doc), Ahmad Fahoum (Doctorant), Hannah Tyler (Doctorante), Mathilde Sigalas (Doctorante), Steven Piguet (Informaticien)
Abstract and additional informations
La fabrique des « sports nationaux ». Les élites du sport suisse et l’institutionnalisation d’un champ sportif suisse (années 1860-1930)
Applicant: Grégory Quin
Collaborators : Philippe Vonnard, Hans-Dieter Gerber, Gil Mayencourt, Cyril Michaud, Hugo Torrigiani
Duration: 2019-2023
Abstract and additional informations
The Rise of the Financial Elite – Access, Integration and Spread of Power
Applicant: Felix Bühlmann
Collaborators: Fabien Foureault (Post-doc), Lena Ajdacic (Doctorante), Steven Piguet (Informaticien)
Duration: 2018 - 2022
Abstract and additional informations
‘Businessmen of the World, Unite!’ The International Chamber of Commerce and the Rise of Global Capitalism in the Twentieth Century
Applicant: Pierre Eichenberger, Université de Zurich
Abstract and additional informations
The Swiss Power Elite and Field of Power. Tensions between Elite Coordination and Differentiation since the 1950s
Applicant: Thierry Rossier
Abstract and additional informations
Urban Transformations and Local Political Elites. A Comparative Study among four Swiss Cities
Applicant: Oscar Mazzoleni ; Co-Applicants : Andrea Pilotti et André Mach
Collaborators : Roberto Di Capua, Karim Lasseb
Duration: 2016-2019
Projet réalisé en collaboration avec l'Observatoire de la Vie Politique Régionale
Abstract and additional informations
Les Elites académiques en Suisse 1910-2000 : Entre autonomie et pouvoir
Applicant : Félix Bühlmann ; Co-Applicant : André Mach et Thomas David
Collaborators : Thierry Rossier, Steven Piguet, Marion Beetschen, Pierre Benz
Duration: 2013-2016
Abstract and additional informations
Elites suisses au XXème siècle: un processus de différencitation inachevé?
Applicant: André Mach; Co-Applicant: Thomas David
Collaborators: Andrea Pilotti, Stéphanie Ginalski, Frédéric Rebmann, Steven Piguet
Duration: 2007 – 2010
Abstract and additional informations
Les réglementations du gouvernement des entreprises en Suisse: origine, évolution et changements récents du comportement des entreprises
Applicant: Thomas David
Collaborators: André Mach, Gerhard Schnyder, Martin Lüpold and François Barrial
Duration: 2003 – 2006
