Christine Horne
Associate Professor
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1989
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1997
Areas of Research Interest:
Social Norms, Theory, Group Processes
Current Research Interests:
My research focuses on social norms. Although there is widespread interest in norms among sociologists, legal scholars, and others, we know relatively little about them - how they emerge, what makes them effective, and what their relation is to law. I am engaged in a theoretically driven research program that seeks to address these questions and that uses experimental methods to evaluate theoretical predictions. I am also working on collaborative projects that apply theoretical insights to explain naturally occurring norms. Some completed and ongoing projects include explaining variation in default rates across micro-credit borrowing groups (with Denise Anthony), and explaining nations' commitment to the International Criminal Court (with Jay Goodliffe, Darren Hawkins, and Dan Nielsen).
Selected Publications:
Horne, Christine. 2009. The Rewards of Punishment. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Horne, Christine and Michael Lovaglia. 2008. Experiments in Criminology and Law. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Horne, Christine. 2004. "Collective Benefits, Exchange Interests, and Norm Enforcement." Social Forces 82(3): 1037-1062.
Hechter, Christine and Michael Hechter, eds. 2003. Theories of Social Order: A Reader. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Social Science.
Horne, Christine. 2001. "The Enforcement of Norms: Group Cohesion and Metanorms." Social Psychology Quarterly 64(3): 253-266.
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