2025

Claassen, C., Carman, C., & Bankov, P. (2025). Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 35(4), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2024.2393587

Claassen, C., Göbel, S., Lang, A., Ackermann, K., Bankov, P., Brookes, K., Cappellina, B., Carman, C., Freitag, M., Horno, R. G. D., Hernández, E., Rico, G., Rossteutscher, S., Traunmüller, R., Webb, M., Zmerli, S., & Zumbrunn, A. (2025). Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies, 95, 102912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912

Lang, A., Göbel, S., Langlitz, J., & Roßteutscher, S. (2025). Rural-Urban Disparities: A Systematic Review of Political Science Research. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/9xym4_v1 [Preprint, under Review at G&O]

McKay, L., Claassen, C., Bankov, P., & Carman, C. (2025). Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives. Electoral Studies, 95, 102937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102937

Riera, P., & Roßteutscher, S. (2025). Introduction to the Special Issue “The rural-urban divide in Europe: Assessing its impact on political attitudes and voting behavior”. Electoral Studies, 103028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.103028

Rico, G., García del Horno, R., & Hernández, E. (2025). Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments. Electoral Studies, 96, 102962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102962

Zumbrunn, A. (2025). An unrequited conflict: Affective polarisation among ruralites, suburbanites and urbanites in Switzerland. West European Politics, 0(0), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2452134

Zumbrunn, A., Lang, A., & García del Horno, R. (2025). Where does place-based identity come from? The role of place experience. Journal of Rural Studies, 120, 103830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103830

2024

García Del Horno, R., Rico, G., & Hernández, E. (2024). Do they feel like they don't matter? The rural-urban divide in external political efficacy. West European Politics, 47(7), 1447–1472. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2023.2261085

Zumbrunn, A. (2024). Confidence Across Cleavage: The Swiss Rural–Urban Divide, Place-Based Identity and Political Trust. Swiss Political Science Review, 30(1), 46–65. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12586

Zumbrunn, A. (2024). Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment. Political Research Quarterly, 77(2), 592–606. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241230541

2023

Brookes, Kevin, and Bartolomeo Cappellina. 2023. “Political Behaviour in France: The Impact of the Rural–Urban Divide." French Politics 21 (1): 104–24. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-022-00204-x.

Zumbrunn, A., & Freitag, M. (2023). The geography of autocracy. Regime preferences along the rural-urban divide in 32 countries. Democratization, 30(4), 616–634. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2023.2171995