Dr. Nathan Breznau

Einzelbeiträge in Sammelwerken

Breznau, N. (2023). Institutional trajectories of the welfare state: returns from social policy inception to modern public opinion. In F. Roosma & T. Laenen (Hrsg.), A research agenda for public attitudes to welfare (S. 185–206). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Breznau, N. & Lanver, F. (2021). The global diffusion of work-injury insurance: The role of spatial networks and nation building. In M. Windzio, I. Mossig, F. Besche-Truthe & H. Seitzer (Hrsg.), Networks and geographies of global social policy diffusion: Culture, economy, and colonial legacies (S. 39–58). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83403-6_2

Aufsätze in Zeitschriften und Sammelbänden mit Begutachtungssystem

Breznau, N. (2025). Measuring and harmonizing coverage, generosity and history of work-injury policies globally. Social Policy & Administration. Vorab-Onlinepublikation. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13129

Breznau, N., Heukamp, L., Nguyen, H. H. V. & Knuf, T. (2025). The moderating role of government heuristics in public preferences for redistribution. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(1), 21–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241290742

Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Akdeniz, E., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Bai, L., Balzer, D., Bauer, P. C., Bauer, G., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., . . . Nguyen, H. H. V. (2025). The reliability of replications: A study in computational reproductions. Royal Society Open Science, 12(3), Artikel 241038. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241038

Bauer, G., Breznau, N., Gereke, J., Höffler, J. H., Janz, N., Rahal, R.-M., Rennstich, J. K. & Soiné, H. (2023). Teaching constructive replications in the behavioral and social sciences using quantitative data. Teaching of Psychology. Vorab-Onlinepublikation. https://doi.org/10.1177/00986283231219503

Breznau, N. & Kirkpatrick, L. O. (2023). Urban fiscal crisis and local emergency management: Tracking the color line in Michigan. Issues in Race and Society, 11, 9–47.

Korbmacher, M., Azevedo, F., Pennington, C. R., Hartmann, H., Pownall, M., Schmidt, K., Elsherif, M., Breznau, N., Robertson, O., Kalandadze, T., Yu, S., Baker, B. J., O'Mahony, A., Olsnes, J. Ø.-S., Shaw, J. J., Gjoneska, B., Yamada, Y., Röer, J. P., Murphy, J., . . . Evans, T. (2023). The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes. Communications Psychology, 1, Artikel 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00003-2

Breznau, N. (2022). Integrating computer prediction methods in social science: A comment on Hofman et al. (2021). Social Science Computer Review, 40(3), 844–853. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393211049776

Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Balzer, D., Bauer, G., Bauer, P. C., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., Berning, C., . . . Żółtak, T. (2022). Observing many researchers using same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), Artikel e2203150119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203150119

Breznau, N. (2021). The welfare state and risk perceptions: The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic and public concern in 70 countries. European Societies, 23(S1), S33-S46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1793215

Breznau, N., Sauter, L. & Salikutluk, Z. (2020). Full shelves, good skills? Immigration, adolescent language aptitude and new evidence on books in the home from four European countries. Comparative Sociology, 19(4-5), 465–508. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-BJA10019

Breznau, N. (2021). Does sociology need open science? Societies, 11, Artikel 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc11010009

Breznau, N. (2021). I saw you in the crowd: Credibility, reproducibility, and meta-utility. Political Science & Politics, 54(2), 309–313. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520000980 

Nguyen, H. H. V., Breznau, N. & Heukamp, L. (2021). Locked down or locked in? Institutionalised public preferences and pandemic policy feedback in 32 countries. In M. Pomati, A. Jolly & J. Rees (Hrsg.), Social policy review 33 Analysis and debate in social policy (S. 5–28). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447359739-003

Breznau, N. (2019). The underlying public attitude toward government responsibility to intervene in socioeconomics, 30 years of evidence from the ISSP. International Journal of Sociology, 49(3), 182–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2019.1605028

Breznau, N. & Hommerich, C. (2019). No generalizable effect of income inequality on public support for governmental redistribution among rich democracies 1987-2010. Social Science Research, 81, 170–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.03.013

Breznau, N. & Hommerich, C. (2019). The limits of inequality: Public support for social policy across rich democracies. International Journal of Social Welfare, 28(2), 138–151. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12341

Steele, L. G. & Breznau, N. (2019). Attitudes toward redistributive policy: An introduction. Societies, 9, Artikel 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc9030050

Breznau, N. (2018). Simultaneous feedback models with macro-comparative cross-sectional data. Methods, Data, Analyses, 12(2), 265–308. https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2017.07

Eger, M. A. & Breznau, N. (2017). Immigration and the welfare state: A cross-regional analysis of European welfare attitudes. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58(5), 440–463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020715217690796

Breznau, N. (2017). Positive returns and equilibrium: Simultaneous feedback between public opinion and social policy. Policy Studies Journal, 45(4), 583–612. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12171

Breznau, N. & Eger, M. A. (2016). Immigrant presence, group boundaries, and support for the welfare state in Western European societies. Acta Sociologica, 59(3), 195–214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699316645168

Breznau, N. (2016). Secondary observer effects: Idiosyncratic errors in small-N secondary data analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(3), 301–318. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2014.1001221

Breznau, N. (2015). The missing main effect of welfare state regimes: A replication of ‘social policy responsiveness in developed democracies’ by Brooks and Manza. Sociological Science, 2, 420–441. https://doi.org/10.15195/v2.a20

Breznau, N., Lykes, V. A., Kelley, J. & Evans, M. D. R. (2011). A clash of civilizations? Preferences for religious political leaders in 86 nations. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(4), 671–691. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2011.01605.x

Breznau, N. (2010). Economic equality and social welfare: Policy preferences in five nations. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22(4), 458–484. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edq024

Duina, F. & Breznau, N. (2002). Constructing common cultures: The ontological and normative dimensions of law in the European Union and Mercosur. European Law Journal, 8(4), 574–595. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0386.00166

Webdokumente, Arbeits- und Diskussionspapiere, Conference Paper

Breznau, N. (2025). Measuring and harmonizing coverage, generosity and history of work-injury policies globally. SocArXiv Papers. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/739sp_v2

Borjas, G. J. & Breznau, N. (2024). Ideological bias in estimates of the impact of immigration (NBER Working Paper Nr. 33274). NBER. https://doi.org/10.3386/w33274

Saltelli, A., Lachi, A., Puy, A. & Breznau, N. (2024). Global sensitivity analysis unveils the hidden universe of uncertainty in multiverse studies. MetaArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/b67w9

Wissenschaftliche Kurzbeiträge in Portalen und Periodika (Auswahl)

Breznau, N. (2024). Book review: Toxic water, toxic system: Environmental racism and Michigan's water war, by Michael Mascarenhas. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vorab-Onlinepublikation. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2411420

Breznau, N. (2023). Book review: Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien. Information and Democracy: Public Policy in the News. Public Opinion Quarterly, 87(1), 239–242. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfac055

Breznau, N. & Lanver, F. (2023). Work-injury policy: Communism and enslaved labor prduction in the global development of work accident insurance. In I. Mossig & H. Obinger (Hrsg.), Mapping global dynamics of social policy (S. 12–15). Universität Bremen. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2559

Breznau, N. & Rinke, E. M. (2023). Reply to Engzell: Maybe in plain sight but out of focus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(2), Artikel e2219213120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219213120

Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M. & Wuttke, A. (2023). Reply to Mathur et al.: Many-analyst studies should consider effect sizes and CIs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(3), Artikel e2219555120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219555120

Breznau, N. (2021). Book review of 'Public Opinion' by David Weakliem. SocArXiv Papers. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/27bka

Breznau, N. (2013). Review of Welfare States and public opinion: Perceptions of healthcare systems, family policy and benefits for the unemployed and poor in Europe by Claus Wendt, Monika Mischke and Michaela Pfeifer. European Sociological Review, 29(2), 402–403.