peer-reviewed Publications

• “Complex Institutions, Social Identities, and Belief Formation” (with Munroe Kim). Accepted at the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.

• “I Alone Can Fix it:” The Strongman Narrative and Leader Support” (with Korhan Koçak). Accepted at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

• Marbach, Moritz, and Carlo M. Horz. “Access Denied: How Bureaucrats Shape Politicians' Incentives to Choose Restrictive Asylum Policies.” Political Science Research and Methods  13, no. 4 (2025): 865 - 884.

• Horz, Carlo M. and Hannah Simpson. “Community Interventions in the Administration of Justice.” American Journal of Political Science 69, no. 3 (2025): 1047-1063.

• Horz, Carlo M., and Jonghoon Lee. “A Visa for a Revolution? A Theory of Anti-Authoritarian Immigration Policy” Journal of Theoretical Politics 36, no. 3 (2024): 275-296.

• Horz, Carlo M. “Identity Propaganda.” British Journal of Political Science 54, no. 2 (2024): 313-338.

• Horz, Carlo M. and Eric Dickson. “Electoral Campaigns and Biased Perceptions of Voter Interests.” American Journal of Political Science 68, no. 1 (2024): 123-138.

• Horz, Carlo M., Moritz Marbach and Christoph V. Steinert. “Environmental Pollution and Authoritarian Politics.“ The Journal of Politics 85: no 2 (2023), pp 524-536.

• Horz, Carlo M., and Hannah Simpson. “Political Interventions in the Administration of Justice.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 18: no. 1 (2023), pp 5-38.

• Horz, Carlo M., and Moritz Marbach. "Economic Opportunities, Emigration and Exit Prisoners." British Journal of Political Science 52, no. 1 (2022): 21-40.

• Horz, Carlo M. "Propaganda and Skepticism." American Journal of Political Science 65, no. 3 (2021): 717-732.

• Horz, Carlo M. "Electoral Manipulation in Polarized Societies." The Journal of Politics 83, no. 2 (2021): 483-497.

Working Papers

• Juking the Stats: Policing, Misreporting, and Policy Evaluation (with Michael Gibilisco). R&R at the Review of Economic Studies.

• Countering Dissent Abroad: Political Exiles' Influence and its Limits (with Jessica S. Sun).

• Learning and Incompetence in Government (with Hannah Simpson).

Other publications

• Informational and Non-Informational Propaganda 2018. APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, 28(2), 38–44.