Alexandre Afonso
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. A. Afonso
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9923
- a.afonso@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3545-5035
Alexandre Afonso's research focusses on the comparative political economy of European countries, and the relationship between welfare states, labour market institutions and immigration.
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Interdisciplinary research: labour market on the move -
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Challenges to European Integration: welfare states and free movement in the EU -
'How can we make the welfare state immigration proof?' -
Alexandre Afonso wins a NWO Vidi -
Vidis for nine Leiden researchers -
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Alexandre Afonso: Can the French “Enemy of the Republic” pull off a victory?
Alexandre Afonso is an assistant professor of public policy at Leiden University, Netherlands. His work focuses on the comparative political economy of labour markets and welfare states in Europe and has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, Socio-Economic Review, European Journal of Political Research, and Governance, among others.
Before joining Leiden University, he was a lecturer (Assistant professor) in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London and held several positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the European University Institute in Florence and the University of Amsterdam. Alexandre earned his PhD in Politics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) in June 2010.
Afonso's research has been reported in Science, the Times Higher Education, the New York Times, The Nation, Slate, El Paìs, and Mediapart. Alexandre has written for the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Daily Telegraph, CNN and Jacobin, among others.
Associate Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Instituut Bestuurskunde
- Afonso A., Negash S.M., Wolff & E.A. (2024), Does the welfare entitlement of refugees reduce openness to refugee migration?: A survey experiment on the welfare entitlement of Ukrainian refugees in the United Kingdom, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 104: 3415-3434.
- Afonso A., Negash S.M. & Wolff E.A. (2024), Does the welfare entitlement of refugees reduce openness to refugee migration?: A survey experiment on the welfare entitlement of Ukrainian refugees in the United Kingdom, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(14): 3415-3434.
- Afonso Alexandre Votta Fabio (2022), Electoral and religious correlates of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Dutch municipalities, European Journal of Public Health 32(6): 985-987.
- Afonso A., Negash S.M. & Wolff E.A. (2020), Closure, equality or organisation: trade union responses to EU labour migration, Journal of European Social Policy 30(5): 528-542.
- Afonso A. & Bulfone F. (2020), Business Against Markets: Employer Resistance to Collective Bargaining Liberalization During the Eurozone Crisis, Comparative Political Studies 53(5): 809-846.
- Afonso A. (2019), Migrant Workers or Working Women? Comparing Labour Supply Policies in Post-War Europe, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 21(3): 251-269.
- Zwan N.A.J. van der & Afonso A. (2019), Activating the Research Methods Curriculum: A Blended Flipped Classroom, PS: Political Science and Politics 52(4): 749-753.
- Afonso A. (2019), State‐led wage devaluation in Southern Europe in the wake of the Eurozone crisis, European Journal of Political Research 58(3): 938-959.
- Moury C. & Afonso A. (2019), Beyond Conditionality: Policy Reversals in Southern Europe in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis, South European Society and Politics 24(2): 155-176.
- Bulfone F. & Afonso A. (2019), Electoral Coalitions and Policy Reversals in Portugal and Italy in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis, South European Society and Politics 24(2): 233-257.
- Zwan Natascha van der & Afonso Alexandre (12 March 2018), Flipping the Research Methods Classroom, Part 4: Online, open, and collaborative?. Active Learning in Political Science. [blog entry].
- Zwan Natascha van der & Afonso Alexandre (19 March 2018), Flipping the Research Methods Classroom, Part 5: Do students like our flipped classroom?. Active Learning in Political Science. [blog entry].
- Zwan N.A.J. van der & Afonso A. (19 February 2018), Flipping the Research Methods Classroom, Part 1. Active Learning in Political Science. [blog entry].
- Flickenschild M. & Afonso A. (2018), Networks of economic policy expertise in Germany and the United States in the wake of the Great Recession, Journal of European Public Policy 26(9): 1292-1331.
- Afonso A. (2 May 2017), France votes on Sunday. Can an “enemy of the Republic” pull off a victory?. Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog.
- Roeth L., Afonso A. & Spies D. (2017), The impact of Populist Radical Right Parties on socio-economic policies, European Political Science Review 10(3): 325-350.
- Afonso A. & Devitt C. (2016), Comparative Political Economy and International Migration, Socio-Economic Review 14(3): 591-613.
- Afonso A. (2016), Freer Labour Markets, More Rules? How Transnational Labour Mobility Can Strengthen Collective Bargaining, Comparative Social Research 32: 159-182.
- Afonso A. (2016), Varieties of Academic Labour Markets in Europe, PS: Political Science and Politics 49(4): 816-821.
- Afonso Alexandre (2015), Choosing whom to betray: populist right-wing parties, welfare state reforms and the trade-off between office and votes, European Political Science Review 7(2): 271-292.
- Afonso Alexandre (2015), Permanently Provisional: History, Facts & Figures of Portuguese Immigration in Switzerland, International Migration 53(4): 120-134.
- Afonso Alexandre, Zartaloudis Sotirios & Papadopoulos Yannis (2015), How party linkages shape austerity politics: clientelism and fiscal adjustment in Greece and Portugal during the eurozone crisis, Journal of European Public Policy 22(3): 315-334.
- Afonso A. & Papadopoulos Y. (2015), How the Populist Radical Right Transformed Swiss Welfare Politics: From Compromises to Polarization, Swiss Political Science Review 21(4): 617-635.
- Afonso Alexandre (2014), How to please voters without alienating friends? Parties, organised interests and advocacy coalitions in Swiss immigration policy, Comparative European Politics 12(6): 568-583.
- Afonso A. & Papadopoulos I. (2013), Europeanization or Party Politics? Explaining Government Choice for Corporatist Concertation, Governance 26(1): 5-29.
- Afonso Alexandre (2012), Employer strategies, cross-class coalitions and the free movement of labour in the enlarged European Union, Socio-Economic Review 10(4): 705-730.
- Afonso Alexandre (2010), Policy concertation, Europeanization and new political cleavages: The case of Switzerland, European Journal of Industrial Relations 16(1): 57-72.
- Fontana Marie-Christine, Afonso Alexandre & Papadopoulos Yannis (2008), Putting the Special Case in Its Place: Switzerland and Small-N Comparison in Policy Research, Swiss Political Science Review 14(3): 521-550.
- Afonso Alexandre (2007), Policy change and the politics of expertise: Economic ideas and immigration control reforms in Switzerland, Swiss Political Science Review 13(1): 1-38.
- Afonso A. (2005), When the export of social problems is no longer possible: Immigration policies and unemployment in Switzerland, Social Policy and Administration 39(6): 653-668.