Alexander Horn
@_Alex_Horn
Leader of Emmy Noether Research Group "Varieties of Egalitarianism: Mapping the Politics of Inequality" @EXCInequality. Formerly @AarhusUni @EuropeAtHarvard
🎉Wow, our paper on "paternalism" as an overlooked ideological driving force behind workfare reforms won the BEST ARTICLE PRIZE at Socio-Economic Review! 🙏@sase Thanks to my fantastic coauthors @avkevins & Kees van Kersbergen & help @EXCInequality & @Konstanz_Pol_PA
🌟 2024 SER Best Article Prize Winners: 🥇 "The Paternalist Politics of Punitive and Enabling Workfare" by A. Horn, A. Kevins, & K. van Kersbergen 🏅 Honorable Mentions: C.R. Knight, N. Reddy More info: sase.org/news/ser-best-… @OxfordJournals @Red_Niall @avkevins
📬🙌 Our paper on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out @apsrjournal ! Here is the @EXCInequality working paper: kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/424… with @klueserthan.bsky.social & M. Haselmayer 🧗 voe-project.org
🆕Social progress at the expense of #EconomicEquality? @_Alex_Horn, @klueserthan & M. Haselmayer review a new dataset of 300,000 party statements to determine whether the Left have traded #EconomicEquality for #EqualRights & #EqualChances. 🤔 📖bit.ly/448TZsv #OA
In one week, Germany will head to the polls for one of its most crucial elections in decades. At @zeitonline, we analyze the results of all federal elections since 1949 within current constituencies. Use our interactive tool to explore trends over time! zeit.de/politik/deutsc…
Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal : “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” 🧵Here's a summary thread... 1/n
New Cambridge Element The European Ideological Space in Voters' Own Words by @NoamGidron and @ttichelbaecker is now free to read for 4 weeks! cup.org/4gEYCOj #cambridgeelements #management
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📣Tomorrow last day to submit 👉🏼 Call for #ecprgc25 🇬🇷 Panels & Papers @ECPR 🌉 Bridging Gaps: Political Communication’s Role in Reducing Democratic Erosion ✅ Endorsed by SG 🪑 Chairs @MarikenVelden & @SteWalter ⌛ Deadline 6 Jan #Populism #Polarization #PolComm
RIP Walter Korpi -- one of the key figures in the development of the "power resources theory". Let me take this opportunity to connect some recent work in (labour) economics to this way of thinking about the welfare state and the political economy of redistribution.
The Swedish sociologist Walter Korpi has passed away. He is known for elaborating power resource theory, an approach to the welfare state that holds that the power of the working class is a key determinant of the welfare state. These are some of his influential works.👇
How do political parties speak about education? In a new article with with @AnjaGiudici we examine political speech in advanced democracies over the last 70 years
🆕How has political #rhetoric around #education evolved? 🗣️🎓 @jrgingrich & @AnjaGiudici analyse speeches from 1950 to today across 20 countries, identifying 3 key patterns: consensual, differentially salient, and polarized. Full study 👉 bit.ly/3BoG8m8 🔓 #OA
#OpenAccess from @PoPpublicsphere - (When) Do Parties Affect Economic Inequality? A Systematic Analysis of 30 Years of Research - cup.org/3VJE7YG - Martin Haselmayer & @_Alex_Horn #FirstView
#Stellenangebot #Soziologie_Jobs #Sozialpolitik: An der Uni Mannheim ist eine Stelle (75%) für eine*n wissenschafliche* Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d)🧑🎓(Promotion oder Post-doc) im Bereich 🇪🇺 europäische Wohlfahrtsstaatsforschung zu besetzen. 👇@MZESUniMannheim sowi.uni-mannheim.de/news/wissensch…
Interested in perspectives for left-progressive politics in Europe? Very grateful to @Julius_Ktxt and @V_Burgi for discussing our recent book with me. ... and for linking the conversation to related studies by @thmskrr @DanBischof @bjoern_bremer @jrgingrich. @IPZ_ch @UZH_en
Podcast Alert! 🚨In the sixth episode of our podcast @V_Burgi and I talk to @SiljaHausermann about the crisis of the social democratic parties, its origins and what strategies these parties might adopt to get out of it. 🧵👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2XAD6y…
⏰Tomorrow: Join us for an amazing talk by @jrgingrich on electoral Urban-Rural Divides at the Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni Talks are open to everyone, so if you are in Berlin, dont miss it! Tuesday 19.11.24, 12.00-13.00 Place: ISW, Universitätsstrasse 3b, 002
📢Tomorrow at the Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni: Mads Elkjær presents exciting new work on „Middle-Class Democracy: Economic Inequality and Political Representation in Comparative Perspective“. Come and join us! Time: 12.00-13.00 Place: ISW, Universitätsstrasse 3b, 002
Why did Trump win? How well did we predict the MAGA landslide? What to expect from President Trump 2.0? We'll host a virtual roundtable on this @InFER_Frankfurt @goetheuni with @NilsSteiner, @MaryStegmaier, Herbert Kitschelt, & Sigrid Roßteutscher. Do join us for this event!
Looking forward to @madselk 's talk today (12.00 am) on "Middle class democracy: economic inequality and political representation in comparative perspective"! Join us in room 002 for this term's first politics lecture!
Excited to announced the next iteration of our Politics Lecture Series @HumboldtUni 🥳 Come and join us for a fantastic line-up! 📣
Check out our new database for German local, state, and federal election results! german-elections.com
If you are looking for comprehensive election data in Germany, we've got you covered. The German Election Database (GERDA) provides local, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.
This is a very important chart. But, as it makes the rounds on X, it is also very important to remember that an "anti-incumbent trend" is not, in fact, an *explanation* or a *cause* of what happened in the US. The "anti-incumbent trend" is an *effect* of ultimate structural…
Worth remembering before the blame-game gets too personal: "Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbents", @jburnmurdoch ft.com/content/e8ac09… via @ft
Job alert: I am recruiting a PhD student and a Postdoc (start date: 1 April 2025 for 3 years) to work with me on the project “Parliamentary accountability and EU action against democratic backsliding”. Happy to answer questions. Job ads👇and here: hhu.de/die-hhu/kontak…