Projects
OBELIS members are or have been involved in various research projects, mainly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. These projects are related to each other and are based on the same, cumulative database.
Local Power Structures and Transnational Connections. New Perspectives on Elites in Switzerland, 1890-2020
Applicants: André Mach, Stéphanie Ginalski, Eric Davoine and Matthieu Leimgruber
Collaborators: Baptiste Antoniazza, Pedro Araujo, Pierre Benz, Jean Ceppi, Claire-Lise Debluë, Geoffroy Legentilhomme, Steven Piguet, Jonas Plüss, Michael A. Strebel and Emilie Widmer
Funded by: SNF Sinergia
Duration: 2019-2024
The making of political careers: evaluating the role of trade unions in the pathway of workers to elected office in Switzerland
Applicants: Adrian Zimmermann, Line Rennwald and André Mach
Funded by: Ellen Rifkin Hill Fund at the Swiss Social Archives
Duration: 2022-2025
Open Elite Data
Applicant: Felix Bühlmann
Collaborators: Anne-Sophie Delval, Glen Lomax and Steven Piguet
Funded by: Swissuniversities
Duration: 2023-2025
From interdisciplinarity to the construction of symbolic hierarchies: institutional and epistemic mobilities in the careers of bioscientists
Applicant: Pierre Benz
Fundedy by: SNF Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2023-2025
Transformation of Swiss Finance: an Analysis of three Power Configurations
Applicant: Felix Bühlmann
Collaborators: Lena Ajdacic, Johanna Behr et Amal Tawfik
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2023-2027
The Apostles of the Market Economy: Swiss protagonists and networks of global neoliberalism (1969-1995)
Applicant: Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
Collaborators: Hadrien Buclin, Margaux Lang, Gabriella Lima et Steven Piguet
Funded by: FNS
Duration: 2023-2027
Réglementations du 'gouvernement d'entreprises' en Suisse: Origine, évolution et changements récents du comportement des entreprises
Applicant: Thomas David
Collaborators: André Mach, François Barrial, Martin Lüpold, Isabelle Paccaud et Gerhard Schnyder
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2003-2006
Les élites suisses au 20e siècle: un processus de différenciation inachevé?
Applicants: André Mach and Thomas David
Collaborators: Stéphanie Ginalski, Steven Piguet, Andrea Pilotti, Frédéric Rebmann and Yves Steiner
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2007-2010
Academic Elites in Switzerland 1910-2000: Between Autonomy and Power
Applicants: Félix Bühlmann, André Mach et Thomas David
Collaborators: Marion Beetschen, Pierre Benz, Steven Piguet et Thierry Rossier,
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2013-2017
Lobbying, litigation and direct democracy: Comparing advocacy strategies of interest groups in Switzerland and California
Applicants: Frédéric Varone and André Mach
Collaborators: Marion Beetschen, Steven Eichenberger, Charlotte Jourdain and Steven Piguet
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2013-2017
Networks or good campaigns? Electoral success of Swiss candidates in the 2015 elections
Applicants: Georg Lutz and André Mach
Collaborator: Riccardo Primavesi
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2015-2018
Urban Transformations and Local Political Elites. A Comparative Study among four Swiss Cities
Applicants: Oscar Mazzoleni, Andrea Pilotti and André Mach
Collaborators: Roberto Di Capua and Karim Lasseb
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2016-2020
Research Project realized in Collaboration with the Research Observatory for Regional Politics (OVPR-UniL)
The Rise of the Financial Elite – Access, Integration and Spread of Power
Applicant: Felix Bühlmann
Collaborators: Lena Ajdacic, Fabien Foureault et Steven Piguet
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2018-2022
Rockefeller fellows as heralds of globalization: the circulation of elites, knowledge and practices of modernization (1920s-1970s)
Applicants: Ludovic Tournès, Thomas David and Davide Rodogno
Collaborators: Ahmad Fahoum, Yi-Tang Lin, Steven Piguet, Mathilde Sigalas and Hannah Tyler
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2018-2023
‘Businessmen of the World, Unite!’ The International Chamber of Commerce and the Rise of Global Capitalism in the Twentieth Century
Applicant: Pierre Eichenberger
Funded by: SNF Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2019-2020
The Swiss Power Elite and Field of Power. Tensions between Elite Coordination and Differentiation since the 1950s
Applicant: Thierry Rossier
Funded by: SNF Early Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2019-2020
Converting International Capital: The Case of Swiss Hospitality Management Schools’ Alumni Careers
Applicant: Anne-Sophie Delval
Funded by: SNF Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2021-2023
Why do parties rely on lobbying safeguards? A comparison across polities, policies and parties
Applicant: Steven Eichenberger
Funded by: SNF Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2021-2023
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: Hans-Dieter Gerber, Gil Mayencourt, Cyril Michaud, Hugo Torrigiani et Philippe Vonnard
Funded by: SNF
Duration: 2019-2023
Gendered Relations in Elite Occupations. A Comparative Study on Elite Selection and Careers
Applicant: Thierry Rossier
Funded by: FNS Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2021-2022
Women in Corporate Power. A Comparative Study of the Gendered Inequalities in Corporate Networks in Small European Countries
Applicant: Thierry Rossier
Fundedy by: SNF Return CH Postdoc.Mobility
Duration: 2022-2023
