Artikel mit @julianheide.bsky.social und @thomaslux.bsky.social (1) Ostdeutsche gelten als besonders unzufrieden mit der Demokratie, migrationsfeindlich, rechtspopulistisch. Oft werden diese Orientierungen durch Sozialisationseffekte des DDR-Systems erklärt www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)

Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) predominantly appeal to negative emotions, like fear and anger. But this is not the whole story. @prxjournal.bsky.social, I ask to what extent and why PRRPs add positive emotions to negative ones in their appeals to voters. 🍹🍸 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/2474...

populism and the #RadicalRight M. Weisskircher. “A Normal(ised) Far-Right Party? A Long-Term Perspective on the FPÖ's Electoral Strength in Austria”. In: The Political Quarterly 96.4 (2025), pp. 635-644. dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13556.

I have a new chapter on regional differences in German voting behaviour (beyond east/west). It's coming out later this year, but with attention spans being what they are, here's a 🧵. Most important point: aggregate volatility and east-west-diffs (yeah) were, like, absolutely massive in 2025 #btw25

Ein paar Infos zur @pvs-journal.bsky.social im Kontext des Wechsels Chefredaktion von Chemnitz nach Mannheim: link.springer.com/article/10.1... In dem Zusammenhang nochmals herzlichen Dank an Eric Linhart und Niclas Hüttemann für deren hervorragende Arbeit in den letzten sechs Jahren!

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Are you interested in the #AfD? M. Weisskircher, M. Diermeier, L. Singer, et al. “Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy”. In: German Politics online first (2026), pp. 1-27.

This article by C-REX theme leader @katrif.bsky.social and @manesweisskircher.bsky.social was the most cited article in Nations and Nationalism in 2024! Congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How does coalition participation influence party [email protected] @michaelimre.bsky.social and I find that junior coalition partners lose more members than parties that govern alone, and an increasing ideol. diversity within the cabinet is related to a decreasing number of members.

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com

Are you interested in the #AfD? K. Arzheimer. “The Electoral Breakthrough of the AfD and the East-West Divide In German Politics”. In: Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics. From the Streets to Parliament. Ed. by M. Weisskircher. London, New York:

The people against the sun? ideology and strategy in far-right parties' climate obstruction of solar energy by Manès Weisskircher & Sabine Volk Pages: 240-271 doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Sehr interessante und wichtige empirische Studie zur Gegenmobilisierung gegen Pride-Demonstrationen in Sachsen. Von @leabellmann.bsky.social & Bastian Stock - KollegInnen an der @gsw-tudresden.bsky.social - zusammen mit @kbsachsen.bsky.social @weiterdenken.bsky.social @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social ⤵️

5/5 Hier gibt es die Broschüre zum Download: kulturbuero-sachsen.de/neue-broschu...

1/5 Gestern erschien unsere Broschüre zu den Auswirkungen rechter Gegenmobilisierungen auf Pride-Teilnehmende. Am selben Tag wurde öffentlich, dass das Straßenfest des @csd-dresden.de nicht mehr als politische Versammlung gelten soll – ein fatales Zeichen für die Versammlungsfreiheit.

Final call for 2026 #farright #radicalright #research

Eine kritische Einordnung des Forschungsstands zu Rechtsradikalismus und -extremismus aus Sicht der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft liefern @asheinze.bsky.social und @manesweisskircher.bsky.social : link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

📚 Neue Publikation: für die Neuauflage des Handbuchs #VergleichendePolitikwissenschaft haben @manesweisskircher.bsky.social und ich den Forschungsstand zu #Rechtsaußen kritisch unter die Lupe genommen und bestehende Forschungslücken diskutiert. 👉 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

📣 New publication with the great @matthiasdilling.bsky.social in @prxjournal.bsky.social on the rise (and fall) of the Dutch NSC. Slow science meets fast-moving politics: while writing this, the party had risen - and fallen. Yet: it offers lessons on countering the far right: doi.org/10.1080/2474...

Are you interested in the #RadicalRight in Germany, the US, and Russia? → M. Weisskircher. “Far-Right Movement-Party Activism as Strategy: Germany's 'Peace Movement' During Russia's War Against Ukraine”. In: Acta Politica (Dec. 2024). dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41269-024-00378-y.

Ich begleite gerade das forschungsjournal.de bei einem Generationswechsel in der Redaktion. Das Journal wird seit 1988 von einem ehrenamtlichen Team produziert. Zum Teil sind es noch dieselben Menschen. Jetzt sucht die Redaktion Leute, die Lust haben, das Forschungsjournal neu zu denken.

Best news of the year so far! I am very grateful for this award 🌟🥳 Huge thanks to the @ecpr.bsky.social jury and the wonderful local and international colleagues who nominated me, @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @dafnoukos.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social Gabriele Abels & Rolf Frankenberger 🙏

Meet @manesweisskircher.bsky.social, one of our visiting scholars from TU Dresden. Join him next week for a seminar on “Electromobility and the Politics of Climate Change: Far-Right Climate Obstruction and Its Impact on Mainstream Parties.” 🗓️ 3/12 @ 1pm 🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/...

Super happy that this is finally out! @akueppers.bsky.social, Lukas Daniel and I try to locate the German Anti-Covid party "dieBasis" politically. TL;DR: The ideological classification remains blurry, but populism played an important in they party's communication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Neue Publikation🎉 Zum neuen Portal von #ZZF und #MMZ habe ich einen Beitrag zu den "Böhsen #Onkelz" & ihrem Einfluss auf den (frühen) #Rechtsrock in Deutschland beigesteuert: radikale-rechte.de/comment/018-... #BöhseOnkelz

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Ungated author's version: Im Osten nichts Neues? Die elektorale Unterstützung von #AfD und Linkspartei in den östlichen und westlichen Bundesländern bei der BTW 2021

Ebenfalls von 2025 ist dieses Paper von @manesweisskircher.bsky.social und @sabinedvolk.bsky.social zu climate obstruction extrem rechter Parteien, vor allem mit Bezug auf Solarenergie: doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Meet @tevoelker.bsky.social, one of our Visiting Scholars from @wzb.bsky.social. Join her TODAY for a seminar on “Democratic Resilience: How Parties, Civil Society, and the Media Resist Far-Right Politics.” 🗓️ Feb 25 @ 2:00 - 3:15pm 🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2026/...

📢 Our study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s116... 👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success ❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success

My second just-published paper in our special issue compares Pirate 🏴‍☠️ and Green 🍃 parties (against other party types) across first- and second-order elections (EP). Using updated data from my dissertation, I find no comparative advantage in EPE for 🏴‍☠️, but some for 🍃 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are you interested in the #RadicalRight in Germany? → C. Otteni and M. Weisskircher. “Global Warming and Polarization. Wind Turbines and the Electoral Success of the Greens and the Populist Radical Right”. In: European Journal of Political Research 61.4 (2022), pp. 1102-1122.

🚨Excited to see my two new publications in a special issue on 🏴‍☠️ parties, co-edited with Vladimír Naxera, now out in Comparative European Politics. The first is the SI introduction (with Vladimír) and a reflection on two decades of 🏴‍☠️ politics in Europe. This was fun! link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Received: 24 October 2025 Revised version received: 18 December 2025 Accepted: 2 January 2026 👉 Submit to @pvs-journal.bsky.social for a quick turnaround. Kudos to the handling editor, @martingross.bsky.social.

New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening? With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain. We find: ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S174...

NEW PUBLICATION “How the Media Cordon Sanitaire Crumbles: Lessons from Germany” now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2621808 I’m very happy that this paper is out – this project is particularly important to me.

2025 open acces {#tbp|#ThrowBackPaper): The Radical Right Research Robot: a model for political science comms on splintered social media #radicalright @rrresrobot.bsky.social#radicalright🤖

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

🖤 Wie traurig, Heinz Wassermann ist tot. Er war ein feiner Mensch und toller Lehrender/Diplomarbeitsbetreuer. Ohne ihn wäre meine Karriere und mein Leben wohl anders verlaufen. Danke für alles, Heinz. Möge dir die Erde leicht sein! 🖤 www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/2...

Are you interested in the #AfD? M. Weisskircher. “The Strength of Far-Right AfD in Eastern Germany: The East-West Divide and the Multiple Causes behind `Populism'”. In: The Political Quarterly 91.3 (2020), pp. 614-622. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12859.

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

Take a look at Ramona Coman, @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue "Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament". With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social and more. link.springer.com/collections/...

I'm delighted to have started as a Visiting Scholar at @harvard.edu, at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies! Here, I will research the far right as well as climate and environmental politics. So far, it’s been great days here in #Winter #Wonderland! ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/man%C...

Do followers of populist radical right parties across the globe talk about the same things online? @fravittonetto.bsky.social analyses the emergence of transnational publics of the populist radical right in this new article in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two new articles in Party Politics With @gessler.bsky.social Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data" doi.org/10.1177/1354... With Hanspeter Kriesi "Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe" doi.org/10.1177/1354... Feedback very welcome!

Unpopuläre Meinung: Expert:inneninterviews mit Wissenschafter:innen im Rahmen von BA-Arbeiten gehören abgeschafft. Interviews binden erhebliche Zeitressourcen für ein „Expert:innenwissen“, das in unseren Publikationen öffentlich zugänglich ist – dann doch lieber Literaturarbeit.

Während sich die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg zwischen 2021 und 2026 deutlich in Richtung der Mitte des Policy-Raums bewegen, bleiben sie in Rheinland-Pfalz weiter bei ihrer klar linken Position in wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Fragen. /1

Published in 2023: S. Volk and M. Weisskircher. “Defending Democracy Against the 'Corona Dictatorship'? Far-Right PEGIDA During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. In: Social Movement Studies online first (2023), pp. 1-19. dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2171385.