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Dr Hanna Kleider
Dr Hanna Kleider

Dr Hanna Kleider

Senior Lecturer in Public Policy

Research interests

  • Policy
  • Politics

Biography

Dr Hanna Kleider joined the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London in January 2019. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She received her PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before attending graduate school, she worked for the OECD in Paris. In 2017-18, Dr Kleider was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.

Office hours

Tuesday: 10.30 - 12.30

MA Political Economy

Dr Kleider is programme director for the MA Political Economy.

Research

Her research centres on different aspects of comparative political economy, with a special interest in inequality, social policy, and decentralization. She has paid particular attention to territorial inequalities and their effect on the welfare state. A second line of her research explores the effect of social policy on gender relations. 

Some of her research is published in the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Social Policy, and West European Politics.

Publications

  • Kleider, Hanna and Florian Stoeckel. 2019."The Politics of International Redistribution: Explaining Public Support for Fiscal Transfers in the EU" European Journal of Political Research, 58(1): 4-29
  • Kleider, Hanna. 2018. “Redistributive Policies in Decentralized Systems: Explaining the Effect of Decentralization on Subnational Social Spending” European Journal of Political Research, 57(2): 355-377.
  • Kleider, Hanna, Leonce Röth and Julian Garritzman. 2018. "Ideological Alignment and the Distribution of Public Expenditures" West European Politics, 41(3): 779-802.
  • Kleider, Hanna. 2015. “Paid and unpaid work: The impact of social policies on the gender division of labour” Journal of European Social Policy, 25(50): 505-520.
  • Brady, David, Agnes Blome, and Hanna Kleider. 2016. “How politics and institutions shape poverty and inequality” In: Brady, David and Linda M. Burton (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.

Teaching

Further Details

Research

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Quantitative Political Economy Research Group

The Quantitative Political Economy research group gathers economists and political scientists that are committed to bridging the two disciplines. The common ground is the study politics and policies with advanced quantitative methods and formal modeling.

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Public Policy and Regulation Research Group

Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.

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Comparative Politics Research Group

The Comparative Politics research group hosts a research agenda based on political institutions, representation and regimes.

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Social Equity and Social Welfare

The Social and Social Welfare subgroup delivers theoretically and empirically grounded research focused on gender and income inequality, social policy and social welfare, taxation, and redistribution.

News

Major project will help governments better co-ordinate pandemic responses

A King’s academic will be working as part of a major new project that will aim to better prepare governments for future pandemics.

COVID and RBC

Grant funding approved for major new project

A major new project which aims to deepen academic understanding of the knowledge economy has been backed with grant funding from a leading research trust.

IoPPN News

Research project backed with funding from British Academy

A research project focused on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been selected for funding by the British Academy.

The project has been backed with funding from the British Academy

Pandemic could prompt lasting change to welfare systems

Welfare systems around the world may become lastingly more generous in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, academics have said.

Welfare systems around the world could undergo permanent change

Research

quantative resized
Quantitative Political Economy Research Group

The Quantitative Political Economy research group gathers economists and political scientists that are committed to bridging the two disciplines. The common ground is the study politics and policies with advanced quantitative methods and formal modeling.

westminster
Public Policy and Regulation Research Group

Public Policy and Regulation (PPR) is the home for theoretically and empirically grounded research which analyses policy and regulatory responses to important political, social and economic issues, and (individual-level) responses to these policies.

talk-at-kings-thumbnail
Comparative Politics Research Group

The Comparative Politics research group hosts a research agenda based on political institutions, representation and regimes.

social divisions
Social Equity and Social Welfare

The Social and Social Welfare subgroup delivers theoretically and empirically grounded research focused on gender and income inequality, social policy and social welfare, taxation, and redistribution.

News

Major project will help governments better co-ordinate pandemic responses

A King’s academic will be working as part of a major new project that will aim to better prepare governments for future pandemics.

COVID and RBC

Grant funding approved for major new project

A major new project which aims to deepen academic understanding of the knowledge economy has been backed with grant funding from a leading research trust.

IoPPN News

Research project backed with funding from British Academy

A research project focused on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been selected for funding by the British Academy.

The project has been backed with funding from the British Academy

Pandemic could prompt lasting change to welfare systems

Welfare systems around the world may become lastingly more generous in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, academics have said.

Welfare systems around the world could undergo permanent change