Dr. Eike-Christian Hornig
Senior Research Fellow
Profile
Dr Eike-Christian Hornig managed the Direct Decmroacy Navigator project on behalf of the Liechtenstein Institute from 2021 to the end of 2023.
Dr. Hornig is a Senior Research Fellow at the Liechtenstein-Institute in Gamprin/Bendern in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He joined the Institute in 2021 after positions as Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at the University of Erfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt (both Germany). He received his Doctorate from the University of Osnabrueck in 2011. His interest in politics focuses on the interplay of direct and representative democracy and the changes of political participation in general. In a comparative perspective, he especially studies parties and referendums in Germany, Italy, Taiwan, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Hornig was awarded the Taiwan (R.O.C.) Fellowship in 2020.
Recent Publications
- Hornig, Eike-Christian (2021): Direkte Demokratie in Italien – zwischen Reform und Beharrung, in: Direkte Demokratie. Festschrift für Otmar Jung, Heußer, Hermann/Pautsch, Arne/Wittreck, Fabian (Hrsg.), Stuttgart: Richard Boorberg Verlag, 471-497.
- Hornig, Eike-Christian (2021):The German Parties’ Reaction to the 2015 Refugee Crisis—A Long-Term Analysis of Party Positioning Dynamics, in: Immigration Policy and Crisis in the Regional Context: Asian and European Experiences, Chu, Chin-peng/Park, Sang-Chul (eds.), Springer, 165-184.
- Hornig, Eike-Christian (2020): Direkte Demokratie?, in: Politische Parteien in der modernen Demokratie, Grünewald, Robert/Busch-Janser, Sandra/Piepenschneider, Melanie (eds.), Beiträge zur Politischen Bildung der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Münster: LIT Verlag, 445-461.
