Dr. Alexander Horn
Research Group Leader
Research Interests
- Comparative Politics
- Politics of Inequality
- Welfare States
- Role of (Party) Ideology
- Text analysis
Contact
alexander.horn@uni-konstanz.de
Publications (Peer Reviewed)
2025
Horn, Alexander, Klüser, Jonathan & Haselmayer, Martin: Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020. American Political Scince Review.
2025
Horn, Alexander, Klüser, Jonathan & Haselmayer, Martin: Blurring lines. Economic equality and equal rights concepts of center- and far-right parties, 1970–2020. Party Politics.
2025
Horn, Alexander, Klüser, Jonathan & Haselmayer, Martin: Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties’equality preferences. European Journal of Political Research.
2025
Horn, Alexander, Klüser, Jonathan, Rittershaus, Simon & Haselmayer, Martin: Unequal German Democracy and the Rise of the‘Lifestyle-Left’? How Left Parties in GermanyConceive of (In)Equality, 1970–2021. German Politics.
2024
Horn, Alexander & Haselmayer, Martin: (When) Do Parties Affect Economic Inequality? A Systematic Analysis of 30 Years of Research. Perepective on Politics.
2024
Horn, Alexander & Kohl, Sebastian, Beyond trade-offs: Exploring the changing interplay of public and private welfare provision in old age and health in the historical long-run. Journal of European Social Policy.
2023
Horn, Alexander, Kevins, Anthony & Van Kersbergen, Kees, Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018. Comparative Political Studies.
2023
Horn, Alexander, Kevins, Anthonay and Van Kersbergen, Kees: Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018. Comparative Political Studies.
2023
Horn, Alexander, Kevins, Anthony & van Kersbergen, Kees, The paternalist politics of punitive and enabling workfare: evidence from a new dataset on workfare reforms in 16 countries, 1980–2015. Socio-Economic Review.
2022
Horn, Alexander & Jensen, Carsten, Policy signals in party communication: explaining positional concreteness in parties’ Facebook posts. West European Politics.
2021
Horn, Alexander, The asymmetric long-term electoral consequences of unpopular reforms: why retrenchment really is a losing game for left parties. Journal of European Public Policy.
2021
Horn, Alexander, Kevins, Anthony, Jensen, Carsten & Van Kersbergen, Kees, Political parties and social groups: New perspectives and data on group and policy appeals. Party Politics.
2020
Kevins, Anthony, Horn, Alexander, Jensen, Carsten & Van Kersbergen, Kees, Motive attribution and the moral politics of the welfare state. Journal of Social Policy.
2019
Horn, Alexander, Can the online crowd match real expert judgments? How task complexity and coder location affect the validity of crowd-coded data. European Journal of Political Research. (Best Paper by a Young Scholar Award/DJØF Prize from the Danish Political Science Association)
2019
Kevins, Anthony, Horn, Alexander, Jensen, Carsten & Van Kersbergen, Kees, The illusion of class in welfare state politics? Journal of Social Policy.
2019
Kevins, Anthony, Horn, Alexander, Jensen, Carsten & Van Kersbergen, Kees, Yardsticks of inequality: Preferences for redistribution in advanced democracies. Journal of European Social Policy.
2018
Horn, Alexander & Kevins, Anthony, Problem pressure and social policy innovation: Lessons from nineteenth-century Germany. Social Science History.
2018
Horn, Alexander, Conditional solidarity: A comparative analysis of government egalitarianism and benefit conditionalization in boom and bust. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice.
2017
Horn, Alexander, Kevins, Anthony, Jensen, Carsten & Van Kersbergen, Kees, Peeping at the corpus–What is really going on behind the equality and welfare items of the Manifesto project? Journal of European Social Policy.
2017
Horn, Alexander & Jensen, Carsten, When and why politicians do not keep their welfare promises. European Journal of Political Research.
2017
Horn, Alexander & Jensen, Carsten, When and why politicians do not keep their welfare promises. European Journal of Political Research.
Monographs & Book Chapters
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Chapter on Computational Social Science Approaches and AI in the Study of Reform Processes. With Sebastian Stier and Jan Schwalbach- Handbook on Welfare State Reform. Edited by Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Moira Nelson.
2023
Chapter: Ever the committed egalitarians – or the end of Scandinavian exceptionalism? Festschrift Kees van Kersbergen. With Anthony Kevins. Edited by Carsten Jensen, Barbara Vis, and Christoffer Green-Pedersen.
2022
Honesty is the Best Policy. The (Hidden) Short- and Long-term Electoral Consequences of Pledge Breaking and Their Economic Scope Conditions. Festschrift Detlef Jahn. By Erik Baltz, Sven Kosanke, Susanne Pickel. VS.
2022
Legacies of Universalism: Origins and Persistence of the Broad Political Support for Inclusive Social Investment in Scandinavia. In: The World Politics of Social Investment II: The Politics of Varying Social Investment Strategies, (Edited by Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, Bruno Palier). Oxford University Press. With Kees van Kersbergen.
2021
Three Worlds of Social Policy Styles: Lasting Legacies or a Thing of the Past? In: Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles (Edited by Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun). Chapter 8. With Jennifer Shore. Routledge (Handbook Series).
2019
Horn, Alexander, Das politische System Dänemarks: Politik, Wirtschaft und Wohlfahrtsstaat in vergleichender Perspektive. Springer.
2017
Horn, Alexander, Government ideology, economic pressure, and risk privatization: How economic worldviews shape social policy choices in times of crisis. Amsterdam University Press.