Alexander Horn

Dr. Alexander Horn
Research Group Leader

Project Team Alexander Horn

Research Interests

  • Comparative Politics
  • Politics of Inequality
  • Welfare States
  • Role of (Party) Ideology
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Contact

alexander.horn@uni-konstanz.de

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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Publications (Peer Reviewed)

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, 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.