Meanwhile, in France 🔎

It's... an interesting take, but that's not the way public opinion works (normally)

Hab mit @kai-arzheimer.com über die 2025er Bundestagswahl geredet #podcast

well this simple pun went to a dark place. But, you know, accurate

The new youth with of the AfD in Bavaria is going full Neo-Nazi historical revisionism claiming that the surrender in 1945 was the "greatest tragedy in German history." The AfD normally edges towards this saying it is not a date to celebrate, but this is explicitly crossing the line.

Evergreen answers from a nearly forgotten European Politics class test #throwback

Einladung zur #Forschungswerkstatt am Mitwoch, 13. Mai, um 16 Uhr (im P4): Wir freuen uns auf Constantin Wurthmann und seinen Vortrag zum Thema "Between Descriptive Representation and Rejection: The Case of LGBT Candidates". Alle sind herzlich willkommen!

Good reminder for some of us to update our headshots on the website!

#AcademicWriting 101

This reflects unmodelled structural differences, such as regional political cultures & identities, but also organisational strength and social embeddedness of parties. If you are interested in German Politics and/or political behaviour & regionalisation, find the full pre-print here 👇

Lucas Schwarz, ehemaliger Student im MA EDF, hat mit seiner MA-Arbeit „The User Made Me Do It! – Dynamisches Negative Campaigning im digitalen Umfeld: Evidenz aus der Twitter-Kommunikation der Kandidat:innen im Bundestagswahljahr 2021“ den diesjährigen 'Preis der Deutschen Marktforschung' für Nachwu

German general grumpiness levels are reaching new highs

In #Germany, overall crime rates have been declining for years, but right-wing violence is at its highest level since 2016.

Partisanship is one hell of a drug, exhibit # 12,654

Going back in time for a moment. In the year 2008, a headline of this sort was surprisingly extraordinary. #Germany #NPD

Every single centre right party 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 make the exact same mistake, but in its own unique way. Learning from each other is strictly forbidden. Them's the rules.

French Literature Is in an Uproar

More 😎 research made in Mainz!

(the most common subtitle if my life were an American cop show)

When did the most radical faction take control of the #AfD? This article makes the case for 🥁🥁🥁 2017

As someone how knows absolutely nothing about this part of the world, I found this quite enlightening 👇

🇮🇹's #farright: (somewhat) down, fat from out

Almost like magic:Marginal effects at the mean, average marginal effects, and #Stata's margins command www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-ma...

Germany's top adminstrative court upholds the ban of the "Artgemeinschaft", a tiny sect that has transformed Nazism into a system of religious beliefs

True fact

Is Andy Burnham actually the answer?

Meanwhile, in France 🔎

Visit the surprising world of old-left radicalism in Greece #tbp

Reality is now indistinguishable from The Onion

A fascinating story: fear and loathing in pre-Weimar Berlin

Best PhD advice you're going to get from me #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

Anyone working with grad students is all too familiar with this feeling #AcademicChatter

This piece from 2008, about a Republican candidate catering to neo-Nazi groups, seems almost quaint by current standards.

The personal is political 👇

Bewerbungsschluss morgen: Im Projekt "Knowledge, Epistemic Marginalization, and the Politics of Resentment" (Co-PI: Joachim Blatter) gibt es eine Postdocstelle an der Uni Bremen. Vertragsdauer: 3,5 Jahre Stelle: 100% Bewerbung: Bis 05.05. Stellenausschreibung: www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet...

Neat summary, eh? #AcademicChatter

#AcademicWriting 101

I've been asking myself the same question: where is all that 💰💰💰?

Einladung zur #Forschungswerkstatt am 6. Mai um 16 Uhr (im P4): Wir begrüßen unseren Kollegen Friedrich Plank und sind auf seinen Vortrag "Die Kontestation Internationaler Organisationen im Globalen Süden" gespannt! Alle sind herzlich willkommen!

In #Germany, overall crime rates have been declining for years, but right-wing violence is at its highest level since 2016.

Insult to injury: I had missed the bit about the benevolent "AI" that will be able to draw perfectly balanced maps.

Apparently the Eastern states in #Germany are welcoming the #AfD. Who would have thought? 🙄 Learn more 👉

Intriguing audio long read from 2022 about the man who packaged Chinese nationalism for the (global) masses 🎙️📻 #podcast

Are you interested in populism? → M. Zulianello. “The `Far Right' Label and the Study of Party Systems: Problems, Limitations - and a Way Out”. In: Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (2025), pp. 1-8. dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2025.10078.

Very difficult feat remains very difficult

Sad but true

Wie berichten die 17 (!) Ämter für Verfassungsschutz über #Rechtsextremismus, und was kann man daraus lernen? Mein Text dazu steht jetzt im Info-Pool der @bpb.de#Rechtsextremismus😊

Relatable

the media: M. H. Nicolaisen. “From Toleration to Recognition: Explaining Change and Stability In Party Responses to the Danish People's Party”. In: Comparative European Politics 21.6 (2023), pp. 799-816. dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-023-00338-4.

The #farright as a disruptor 👇