Alexander Horn

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.

A thread 👇 (1/n)

#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

🎉 New Issue Alert! The eighth issue of In_equality magazine is here: 7 Years of Research. Looking Back and Ahead. This edition dives into our research over the past seven years and takes a look at what’s next. Read it here (also available in German): t1p.de/hfl2c @Uni Konstanz

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Downward Mobility and Far-Right Party Support: Broad Evidence - Alan M. Jacobs, Mark A. Kayser, 2025 Much debate has centered on the relative effects of economic and cultural factors on support for far-right parties. Recent work, however, has proposed a synthes...

Intergenerational occupational mobility influences far-right support across both countries and time but only downward mobility matters in a correctly estimated model. Happy to see this work with @alanjacobs.bsky.social appearing in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-....

Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.

I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

What do you think about Achen/Bartel's Democracy for Realists? I really liked the book but its implications are dire for my research field (& my past research), which commonly relies on the "folk theory" of democracy

When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure - Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins, 2025 This study examines whether, and under what conditions, unpaid and paid care work are associated with reduced psychological wellbeing. The article begins by lay...

🚨New Open-Access Publication!🚨

In "When Caring Comes at a Cost", @naomilightman.bsky.social and I explore the effects of paid and unpaid caring on wellbeing and examine whether social expenditure plays a role in shaping those effects.

Check it out paywall-free in JESP: tinyurl.com/2yptx6kj

Spam that is both targeted and off:

The boss of Uni Konstanz starting a mail with „are you at your desk?“ 😅

Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗

New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj

A short 🧵

1/7

CPDS update 1960-2023 is online 🤓 👇/with @dweisstanner.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @klarabruhn.bsky.social

3/3) Thanks for fantastic feedback at the workshop The Right and Equality (2023) @noamgidron.bsky.social @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social @philiprathgeb.bsky.social @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social @luiscornagob.bsky.social, @sattlersthomas.bsky.social and Tabea Palmtag (i.a.)

2/3) Center-right stagnation in changing circumstances along with the moderation of some far-right parties has made it difficult to distinguish both "camps" - echoing work by @dziblatt.bsky.social or @casmudde.bsky.social de.bsky.social. The weaponization of equal rights does not differ much either.

1/3) 📣Out in Party Politics:
We trace the equal rights and economic equality positions of 69 center-right and far-right parties since 1970 in 12 countries. We find that center right parties did not react to/address equal rights concerns and economic inequality

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Party Families in Western Europe This comprehensive and comparative book makes clear what party families are and, in doing so, helps categorise and make sense of parties in different countries. It describes the ideology of the famili...

My book on party families in Western Europe has been out for a year now so why not do an anniversary thread? 🧵 #polisky

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🚨Now officially in print!🚨

Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies?

Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article.

Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.

Reminder: Great job opportunities at Aarhus University!

Please help spread the word before everyone disappears for summer break! 🏖️

Join us 🕐 11.20 @ #EPSA2025 for great papers on the „Politics of inequality and representation“! @leoahrens.bsky.social and me show how even egalitarian governments shy away from real redistribution and focus on less invasive and risky policies.

📍 -1.A.07
@epsanet.bsky.social
@epssnet.bsky.social

@epsanet.bsky.social. Beware: I‘m already looking forward to ambushing random people next in line for coffee etc. by saying „juicing up for the big keynote?“
#EPSA2025 #networking_tips

I arrived in Philadelphia yesterday and look forward to present work from my PhD at the CES conference @templeuniversity.bsky.social tomorrow! 🙂 join us to discuss the gig economy‘s relevance in party competition.

Some can't access the paper via the link, so here it is again

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💥💥💥 Deadline tomorrow!

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Our article on parties' programmatic responses to inequality - and more often the lack of responses - will come out in APSR!

Here is the @excinequality.bsky.social working paper:

kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/4...

with @klueserthan.bsky.social & Martin Haselmayer 🧗🙏

in special issues: "you get breadcrumbs, but still we proceed"

🎉 📘 Es ist da! 📘🎉

"Wo wir wie wählen" gibt's ab heute überall im Handel.

Und jetzt bin ich gespannt, was ihr dazu sagt.

P.S.: Fühlt sich ziemlich gut an, das fertige Buch endlich in den Händen zu halten 😎

(4) "Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018" by Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social , Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social , and Kees Van Kersbergen

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