1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed 2 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 3 xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" 4 xml:lang="en-US" 5 xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/wp-atom.php" 6 > 7 <title type="text">kai arzheimer</title> 8 <subtitle type="text">parties. elections. political science.</subtitle> 9 10 <updated>2026-07-16T19:26:49+00:00</updated> 11 12 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" /> 13 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/feed/atom/</id> 14 <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/feed/atom/" /> 15 16 <generator uri="https://wordpress.org/" version="7.1.2">WordPress</generator> 17<link rel="hub" href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /> 18<link rel="hub" href="https://pubsubhubbub.superfeedr.com" /> 19<link rel="hub" href="https://websubhub.com/hub" /> 20<link rel="self" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/feed/atom/" /> 21 <entry> 22 <author> 23 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 24 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 25 </author> 26 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Out in the open: AfD infighting]]></title> 27 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/out-in-the-open-afd-infighting/" /> 28 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33347</id> 29 <updated>2026-07-16T21:26:49+02:00</updated> 30 <published>2026-07-16T16:36:00+02:00</published> 31 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We're back in "Putsch in the AFD!!!" territory. Will it matter? No. Is it faintly amusing? Also no. Is it important? Perhaps.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 32<!-- YARPP List --> 33<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 34<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 35<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 36<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 37</ol> 38</div> 39]]></summary> 40 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/out-in-the-open-afd-infighting/"><![CDATA[ 41<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For more than a year or so, we have heard little about quarrels within Alternative for Germany. There was some excitement over the recent national party conference in Erfurt two weeks ago, but a potentially very lively debate about the so-called incompatibility list was postponed, and the national leadership was reconfigured without a hitch. Some of us professional watchers have even come to the conclusion that the party has become professionalised and is cruising towards a series of successes in the East.</p> 42 43 44 45<p class="wp-block-paragraph">HOWEVER, just a week later, the state party in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) held its own conference, which quickly descended into chaos. NRW is home to nearly a quarter of Germany’s population, and accordingly, the state’s AfD chapter represents a sizable chunk of the party’s total membership. It is led by Martin Vincentz, one of the very AfD politicians who still claims to be a “moderate”.</p> 46 47 48 49<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His longstanding opponent is Matthias Helferich, the guy who once famously called himself “the friendly face of National Socialism”. Yes, it’s this obvious. </p> 50 51 52 53<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Because of this attitude, Helferich was expelled from the AfD’s parliamentary party in the previous parliament but was accepted back into the fold in 2025. The state chapter also tried to remove him from the party proper (a difficult thing to do in Germany) but ultimately failed. If media reports can be trusted, about 30-40% of the membership in NRW support him against Vincentz.</p> 54 55 56 57<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="416" height="560" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/friendly-face.gif" alt="Out in the open: AfD infighting 1" class="wp-image-33354" title="Out in the open: AfD infighting 1"></figure> 58 59 60 61<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the conference, Helferich tried to get more of his supporters elected on the party list for the upcoming state election to better reflect the internal balance of power. When this failed, his camp effectively staged a filibuster to sabotage the conference (which is wisely scheduled over four (!) consecutive weekends). Rather unexpectedly, Helferich, who looks every bit like an openly right-wing extremist, accused the opposing side of using physical violence against his camp. Conversely, Vincentz said that Helferich’s helpers were employing (wait for it!) Antifa tactics.</p> 62 63 64 65<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To make things slightly more confusing, Weidel, who is still considered the AfD’s more acceptable face and previously fancied herself as an economic liberal who tried to kick Höcke out of the party, has become Helferich’s ally in all this a while ago. Her co-leader Chrupalla, whose base is in Saxony where völkisch nationalism is de rigueur, supports Vincentz. Wait, what?</p> 66 67 68 69<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Is there a point to all this at all? Yes, several, actually. </p> 70 71 72 73<p class="wp-block-paragraph">First, if you had any doubt, personal networks and ambitions trump any ideological differences that may or may not exist within the party. Second, five years after <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/abs/how-democracy-wor
73ks-within-a-populist-party-candidate-selection-in-the-alternative-for-germany/AA2FC32ECD77B6BA7D52729DB6CDB2D3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Höhne (2021)</a> and <a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heinze/Weisskircher (2021)</a>, the AfD’s internal democracy is still alive and, yes, allegedly kicking. Third, and most importantly, none of this chaos and incivility has hurt them in the past. The party can say and do the most outrageous things, and their voters do not care one bit. I would be very surprised if this were to change now.</p> 74<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 75<!-- YARPP List --> 76<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 77<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 78<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 79<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 80</ol> 81</div> 82]]></content> 83 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/out-in-the-open-afd-infighting/#comments" thr:count="21"/> 84 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="21"/> 85 <thr:total>21</thr:total> 86 </entry> 87 <entry> 88 <author> 89 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 90 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 91 </author> 92 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Pressegespräch: Was passiert beim nächsten Bundesparteitag der AfD?]]></title> 93 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/pressegesprach-was-passiert-beim-nachsten-bundesparteitag-der-afd/" /> 94 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33339</id> 95 <updated>2026-07-02T20:29:01+02:00</updated> 96 <published>2026-07-02T20:28:58+02:00</published> 97 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mit Mirjam Moll habe ich darüber gesprochen, was vom Bundesparteitag der Alternative für Deutschland zu erwarten ist: keine offenen Kämpfe um (wichtige) Posten, sondern vielmehr die Ratifikation des inzwischen ziemlich radikalen status quo. Den Text in voller Länge gibt es hier:<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 98<!-- YARPP List --> 99<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 100<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 101<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 102<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 103</ol> 104</div> 105]]></summary> 106 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/pressegesprach-was-passiert-beim-nachsten-bundesparteitag-der-afd/"><![CDATA[ 107<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mit Mirjam Moll habe ich darüber gesprochen, was vom Bundesparteitag der Alternative für Deutschland zu erwarten ist: keine offenen Kämpfe um (wichtige) Posten, sondern vielmehr die Ratifikation des inzwischen ziemlich radikalen status quo. Den Text in voller Länge gibt es hier:</p> 108 109 110 111<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-web-de-news wp-block-embed-web-de-news"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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112<iframe class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://web.de/magazine/politik/inland/parteitag-erfurt-afd-kuenftig-42451040#secret=6a46adecd1948" title="Wer in der AfD künftig das Sagen hat â und wer nicht" data-secret="6a46adecd1948" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 113</div></figure> 114 115 116 117<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> </p> 118<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 119<!-- YARPP List --> 120<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 121<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 122<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 123<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 124</ol> 125</div> 126]]></content> 127 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/pressegesprach-was-passiert-beim-nachsten-bundesparteitag-der-afd/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 128 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 129 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 130 </entry> 131 <entry> 132 <author> 133 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 134 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 135 </author> 136 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here]]></title> 137 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hot-references-summer-the-2026-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography-is-here/" /> 138 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33307</id> 139 <updated>2026-06-05T14:39:52+02:00</updated> 140 <published>2026-06-04T20:30:36+02:00</published> 141 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="bibliography" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's way past time for the annual update of the far right bibliography. The 2026 edition brings you 130 new titles. As always, there is a lot on the determinants of PRR support (i.e. voting), but the update also covers issues such as gender, religion, party organisation, normalisation/mainstreaming, and many, many more.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 142<!-- YARPP List --> 143<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 144<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/der-wal-und-ich/" rel="bookmark" title="Der Wal und ich">Der Wal und ich</a></li> 145<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 146<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 147</ol> 148</div> 149]]></summary> 150 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hot-references-summer-the-2026-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography-is-here/"><![CDATA[<div id="content" class="content"> 151<div id="outline-container-org6e55001" class="outline-2"> 152<div id="text-1" class="outline-text-2"> 153<p>Over the last three months or so, I have compiled the annual update to the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/">Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right</a> (in (Western) Europe)<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="â¢" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />. The update contains 130 new titles, which is fewer than the two previous ones but still makes it third-biggest update ever. As always, my colleagues’ creativity inspires me while their productivity puts me to shame. And this is even before the content-related depression kicks in.</p> 154<p>Click on <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/">this link to browse</a> or <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography.bib">download the latest full version of the bibliography</a> in a format (BibTeX) that most reference managers will import. For long-time users of the bibliography, there is also an <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/xr-update-may-2026.bib">incremental update</a>
154 that contains just the titles that have been added since May 2025.</p> 155</div> 156<div id="outline-container-org7dfe4af" class="outline-3"> 157<h2 id="org7dfe4af">When and where was this new research on the radical right published?</h2> 158<div id="text-1-1" class="outline-text-3"> 159<p>More than 60 per cent of the new entries appeared in 2025, while about a fifth of them were only published in 2026, i.e. during the last five months. In other words, the field keeps expanding not exactly exponentially, but still really, really fast. And yet, the numbers are lower than last year, not to mention the absolute bumper year that was 2024. I’m not sure if this is because there is finally some slowdown or because I’m growing lazier (or more selective).</p> 160<p>The final 20 per cent of new titles consists of publications that I have missed in the past. Most of them still fairly current (i.e. from 2022-2024), but there is also one from 2014 (!): Stockemer and Lamontagne’s study of variations in FPà support across Austrian Länder.</p> 161<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 162<colgroup> 163<col class="org-right" /> 164<col class="org-right" /> </colgroup> 165<thead> 166<tr> 167<th class="org-right" scope="col">Publication year</th> 168<th class="org-right" scope="col">n</th> 169</tr> 170</thead> 171<tbody> 172<tr> 173<td class="org-right">2025</td> 174<td class="org-right">81</td> 175</tr> 176<tr> 177<td class="org-right">2026</td> 178<td class="org-right">27</td> 179</tr> 180<tr> 181<td class="org-right">2024</td> 182<td class="org-right">8</td> 183</tr> 184<tr> 185<td class="org-right">2023</td> 186<td class="org-right">3</td> 187</tr> 188<tr> 189<td class="org-right">2022</td> 190<td class="org-right">3</td> 191</tr> 192<tr> 193<td class="org-right">2019</td> 194<td class="org-right">3</td> 195</tr> 196<tr> 197<td class="org-right">2021</td> 198<td class="org-right">2</td> 199</tr> 200<tr> 201<td class="org-right">2020</td> 202<td class="org-right">2</td> 203</tr> 204<tr> 205<td class="org-right">2014</td> 206<td class="org-right">1</td> 207</tr> 208</tbody> 209</table> 210<p>As in previous years, most new items are journal articles, and like in previous years, the usual suspects crop up, but there are some interesting (if you care about such things) developments. EJPR, historically the most important outlet for this kind of research, has been relegated to the middle of the table. EPSR, which dominated in 2023 and 2024 but suffered a poor 2025, has made quite a comeback. But the very top spot has been taken by a journal that has been somewhat unkindly described as the graveyard of one’s ambitions and Political Science’s equivalent of a freesheet. I suspect that this is yet another fallout from AfD’s rise in the polls.</p> 211<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 212<colgroup> 213<col class="org-left" /> 214<col class="org-right" /> </colgroup> 215<thead> 216<tr> 217<th class="org-left" scope="col">Journal</th> 218<th class="org-right" scope="col">n</th> 219</tr> 220</thead> 221<tbody> 222<tr> 223<td class="org-left">German Politics</td> 224<td class="org-right">8</td> 225</tr> 226<tr> 227<td class="org-left">European Political Science Review</td> 228<td class="org-right">7</td> 229</tr> 230<tr> 231<td class="org-left">Electoral Studies</td> 232<td class="org-right">5</td> 233</tr> 234<tr> 235<td class="org-left">Journal of European Public Policy</td> 236<td class="org-right">5</td> 237</tr> 238<tr> 239<td class="org-left">West European Politics</td> 240<td class="org-right">5</td> 241</tr> 242<tr> 243<td class="org-left">British Journal of Political Science</td> 244<td class="org-right">4</td> 245</tr> 246<tr> 247<td class="org-left">Party Politics</td> 248<td class="org-right">4</td> 249</tr> 250<tr> 251<td class="org-left">Political Research Exchange</td> 252<td class="org-right">4</td> 253</tr> 254<tr> 255<td class="org-left">Politics and Governance</td> 256<td class="org-right">4</td> 257</tr> 258<tr> 259<td class="org-left">Comparative Political Studies</td> 260<td class="org-right">3</td> 261</tr> 262<tr> 263<td class="org-left">European Journal of Political Research</td> 264<td class="org-right">3</td> 265</tr> 266<tr> 267<td class="org-left">Government and Opposition</td> 268<td class="org-right">3</td> 269</tr> 270<tr> 271<td class="org-left">The International Spectator</td> 272<td class="org-right">3</td> 273</tr> 274<tr> 275<td class="org-left">American Journal of Political Science</td> 276<td class="org-right">2</td> 277</tr> 278<tr> 279<td class="org-left">Environmental Politics</td> 280<td class="org-right">2</td> 281</tr> 282<tr> 283<td class="org-left">European Journal of Politics and Gender</td> 284<td class="org-right">2</td> 285</tr> 286<tr> 287<td class="org-left">European Politics and Society</td> 288<td class="org-right">2</td> 289</tr> 290<tr> 291<td class="org-left">European Union Politics</td> 292<td class="org-right">2</td> 293</tr> 294<tr> 295<td class="org-left">Information, Communication & Society</td> 296<td class="org-right">2</td> 297</tr> 298<tr> 299<td class="org-left">Journal of Contemporary European Studies</td> 300<td class="org-right">2</td> 301</tr> 302<tr> 303<td class="org-left">
303Political Psychology</td> 304<td class="org-right">2</td> 305</tr> 306<tr> 307<td class="org-left">Political Science Research and Methods</td> 308<td class="org-right">2</td> 309</tr> 310<tr> 311<td class="org-left">Political Studies</td> 312<td class="org-right">2</td> 313</tr> 314</tbody> 315</table> 316</div> 317</div> 318<div id="outline-container-org8d7055b" class="outline-3"> 319<h2 id="org8d7055b">What are the new topics in radical right research?</h2> 320<div id="text-1-2" class="outline-text-3"> 321<p>Because old dogs/new tricks, I have made yet another word cloud that looks very much like its previous incarnations, reflecting my lasting interest in electoral and party politics. And right between the “r” and the “t” of “party” nestles the one outfit everyone’s going crazy about.</p> 322<p>Like last year, I’m wondering why lemmatisation failed to merge “immigrant” / “immigration” and “Germany” / “German”. Will I remember to investigate and fix this for the 2027 edition? It is ⦠a possibility.</p> 323<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cloud-may-2026-trimmed.png"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33310 size-full" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cloud-may-2026-trimmed.png" alt="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 2" width="572" height="384" title="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 2" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cloud-may-2026-trimmed.png 572w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cloud-may-2026-trimmed-300x201.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px" /></a></p> 324<div id="orge7b669f" class="figure"> 325<p> </p> 326</div> 327<p>In the past, I have tried various text-as-data methods to get a better idea of what the new research is about. One thing that I somehow <i>haven’t</i> done since 2022 is to use unidimensional (Wordfish) scaling on the titles and abstracts (where available), so I remedied this.</p> 328<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33311 size-large" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026-1200x800.png" alt="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 3" width="1200" height="800" title="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 3" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026-1200x800.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026-300x200.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026-768x512.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-beta-may-2026.png 1800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100v
328w, 1200px" /></a></p> 329<div id="org72be680" class="figure"> 330<p> </p> 331</div> 332<p>Wordfish aims to recover a single dimension of meaning from the frequency of words in a set of documents. The y-axis in the graph shows how frequent a word is across the board (Ï), whereas the β values on the x-axis represent the strength of a word’s association with the underlying dimension. The actual words have changed a bit, but the general structure is somewhat similar to what I found back in 2022 the publications seem to align on a dimension running the gamut from the micro-level on the left to the meso- and even macro-level on the right. As I wrote four years ago: “This fits rather neatly with the two kinds of research that tend to go into the bibliography.”</p> 333<p> </p> 334<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33312 size-large" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026-1200x800.png" alt="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 4" width="1200" height="800" title="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 4" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026-1200x800.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026-300x200.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026-768x512.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/wordfish-theta-may-2026.png 1800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a></p> 335<div id="org41afcad" class="figure"> 336<p> </p> 337</div> 338<p>This second plot orders publications by their estimated position θ on the underlying dimension. Texts on the left deal chiefly with attitudes; authors on the right (mostly) study interactions between parties, the systemic consequences of the far right’s rise, and terminological issues. I rest my case.</p> 339<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/texts-mds-may-2026.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33313 size-full" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/texts-mds-may-2026.png" alt="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 5" width="1024" height="800" title="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 5" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/texts-mds-may-2026.png 1024w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/texts-mds-may-2026-300x234.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/texts-mds-may-2026-768x600.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p> 340<div id="orgacbf2fb" class="figure"> 341<p> </p> 342</div> 343<p>Because I had the code still sitting on my disk, I also ran an MDS that tries to project the (Euclidean) differences between the texts (sparse, trimmed) document-feature matrices into a two-dimensional space. For the most part, this is just the academic version of Where’s Wally?, but the graph has one actual use: it shows which publications differ a lot from all the others and are therefore placed towards the margins. The most obvious outlier is Zulianello’s conceptual research note on the use of the far-right label (which, ironically, is placed at the far left of the figure). Similarly removed from the crowd are Kevický’s spatial analysis of radical right support in Slovakia and Czechia, Lorimer et al.’s comparative study of the Dutch and French elections of 2023/24, Böckmann et al.’s article on far-right illiberalism in the EP, and Anduiza and Rico’s treatise on sexism and the radical right gender gap in Spain. It is quite interesting to think about what gets placed next to each other and why, but frankly, I’m not sure how useful this plot actually is, and that’s probably why I haven’t run this code in recent years.</p> 344<p>Something else that is not as useful as expected, at least not with this corpus and not in my hands, are topic models. But then again, I have heard people refer to topic models as “classic”, “traditional” or even “legacy” tools for quantitative text analysis, and so turned to the new-ish kids on the block: LLMs, which, for all their faults, are quite good at summarising and pattern spotting. Last year, I pasted the incremental update in a browser window and asked the free version of Perplexity to identify topics, which it did with some plausibility (and relatively little perplexity on my behalf), although I foun
344d the output a bit verbose. This year, I wrote a little script to connect to an instance of <a href="https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GPT OSS 120B</a> that my institution hosts on a spare node of their supercomputer and asked the plagiarism machine to give me a short, descriptive label alongside some representative, non-hallucinated references from the 2026 update.</p> 345<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 346<colgroup> 347<col class="org-left" /> 348<col class="org-left" /> </colgroup> 349<thead> 350<tr> 351<th class="org-left" scope="col">Theme</th> 352<th class="org-left" scope="col">Representative titles</th> 353</tr> 354</thead> 355<tbody> 356<tr> 357<td class="org-left">(1) Determinants of PRR support</td> 358<td class="org-left">alebeek-et-al-2026, alizade-2025, dusso-demirel-pegg-2025</td> 359</tr> 360<tr> 361<td class="org-left">(2) Religion & Christian rhetoric</td> 362<td class="org-left">albanese-2025, arzheimer-2025b, engelhardt-2026</td> 363</tr> 364<tr> 365<td class="org-left">(3) Party organisation & gender dynamics</td> 366<td class="org-left">albertazzi-et-al-2025, ammassari-2026, balcells-et-al-2025</td> 367</tr> 368<tr> 369<td class="org-left">(4) Media, stigma & normalisation</td> 370<td class="org-left">bolet-foos-2025, arzheimer-2025c, gonzatti-voelker-2025</td> 371</tr> 372<tr> 373<td class="org-left">(5) Policy agenda expansion & issue ownership</td> 374<td class="org-left">crulli-zulianello-2025, falco-et-al-2026, gattermann-hoogen-vreese-2025</td> 375</tr> 376<tr> 377<td class="org-left">(6) Electoral strategies & backlash</td> 378<td class="org-left">dilling-jonge-2026, falco-et-al-2026, reiser-kueppers-2025</td> 379</tr> 380<tr> 381<td class="org-left">(7) Authoritarian nostalgia & historical memory</td> 382<td class="org-left">backes-2025, manucci-hauwaert-2026, neundorf-pardos-prado-2026</td> 383</tr> 384</tbody> 385</table> 386<p>The result is not bad at all for an unsupervised classifier. While there is clearly some overlap between themes 4-6, the labels give you an idea of what the new publications cover, and the examples mostly fit, with the possible exception of, er, Arzheimer (2025c), which is about science communication and hence not necessarily representative.</p> 387</div> 388</div> 389<div id="outline-container-org2dfa414" class="outline-3"> 390<h2 id="org2dfa414">Who wrote this stuff?</h2> 391<div id="text-1-3" class="outline-text-3"> 392<p>Like in previous years, there are some scholars who put the rest of us to shame. Here is the list of authors who have published three or more titles that ended up in this year’s update.</p> 393<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 394<colgroup> 395<col class="org-left" /> 396<col class="org-right" /> </colgroup> 397<thead> 398<tr> 399<th class="org-left" scope="col">Author</th> 400<th class="org-right" scope="col">Titles</th> 401</tr> 402</thead> 403<tbody> 404<tr> 405<td class="org-left">Marianna Griffini</td> 406<td class="org-right">6</td> 407</tr> 408<tr> 409<td class="org-left">Luca Manucci</td> 410<td class="org-right">4</td> 411</tr> 412<tr> 413<td class="org-left">Mattia Zulianello</td> 414<td class="org-right">4</td> 415</tr> 416<tr> 417<td class="org-left">Delia Zollinger</td> 418<td class="org-right">3</td> 419</tr> 420<tr> 421<td class="org-left">Luana Russo</td> 422<td class="org-right">3</td> 423</tr> 424<tr> 425<td class="org-left">Manès Weisskircher</td> 426<td class="org-right">3</td> 427</tr> 428<tr> 429<td class="org-left">Markus Wagner</td> 430<td class="org-right">3</td> 431</tr> 432</tbody> 433</table> 434<p>As always, if you are aware of research that would be a valuable addition to this bibliography, I would like to hear from you. Please feel free to suggest your own work, too: self-nominations are most welcome.</p> 435</div> 436</div> 437<div id="outline-container-org3568966" class="outline-3"> 438<h2 id="org3568966">(Assumed) gender of radical right researchers</h2> 439<div id="text-1-4" class="outline-text-3"> 440<p>People/journals do not use initials and accents consistently, but there appear to be about 227 unique authors in this update. Like in previous years, I have tried to algorithmically infer their gender, which is a notoriously messy business, particularly for non-European names.</p> 441<p>114 names are classified as male and 75 as female, amounting to a ratio of 40 per cent, which is slightly better than in the three previous years. Having said that, the perennial Michael is back (bottom right), although this time around, he is outnumbered by the Daniels of this world. As always, I do n
441ot account for the number of publications someone is involved in.</p> 442<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33314 size-large" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026-1200x591.png" alt="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 6" width="1200" height="591" title="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 6" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026-1200x591.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026-300x148.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026-768x378.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026-1536x757.png 1536w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/radical-right-names-2026.png 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a></p> 443<div id="org88a0cbe" class="figure"> 444<p>As I said, all this gender inference comes with a whole bag of YUGE caveats, but anyway, here’s the latest edition of my trusty trend plot of inferred gender by publication year.</p> 445</div> 446</div> 447</div> 448<div id="outline-container-org4b9c907" class="outline-3"> 449<h2><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-33316" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/female-time-series-may-2026.png" alt="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 7" width="1024" height="800" title="Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is here 7" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/female-time-series-may-2026.png 1024w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/female-time-series-may-2026-300x234.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/female-time-series-may-2026-768x600.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></h2> 450<h2 id="org4b9c907">Show us the goods: the latest titles in radical right research</h2> 451<div id="text-1-5" class="outline-text-3"> 452<p>Here is a full list of all that is new in the bibliography. Click here to <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/xr-update-may-2026.bib">download/import these new titles</a> into your reference management software.</p> 453<p> </p> 454</div> 455</div> 456</div> 457</div> 458<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 459<!-- YARPP List --> 460<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 461<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/der-wal-und-ich/" rel="bookmark" title="Der Wal und ich">Der Wal und ich</a></li> 462<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 463<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 464</ol> 465</div> 466]]></content> 467 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hot-references-summer-the-2026-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography-is-here/#comments" thr:count="37"/> 468 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="37"/> 469 <thr:total>37</thr:total> 470 </entry> 471 <entry> 472 <author> 473 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 474 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 475 </author> 476 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Analyse zur Landtagswahl 2026 in Rheinland-Pfalz]]></title> 477 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/landtagswahl-2026-rheinland-pfalz/" /> 478 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33288</id> 479 <updated>2026-05-06T11:42:06+02:00</updated> 480 <published>2026-05-06T11:42:03+02:00</published> 481 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="talks" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="elections" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="rhineland-palatinate" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Die Landtagswahl 2026 in Rheinland-Pfalz bringt dramatische Verschiebungen mit sich, spiegelt aber auch alte sozio-kulturelle Muster wider. Hier gibt es die Folien zu meiner Wahlanalyse<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 482<!-- YARPP List --> 483<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 484<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 485<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 486<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 487</ol> 488</div> 489]]></summary> 490 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/landtagswahl-2026-rheinland-pfalz/"><![CDATA[ 491<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Für eine Veranstaltung des <a href="https://www.studienprogrammqplus.uni-mainz.de/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Studienprogramms Q+</a> zum Umgang mit der AfD nach den Landtagswahlen habe ich mir das rheinland-pfälzische Ergebnis nÃ
491¤her angeschaut, das bei näherer Betrachtung ziemlich widersprüchlich ausfällt. Einerseits gibt es enorme Zugewinne für die AfD, vor allem in Teilen des ländlichen Raumes und den alten Industriestädten, und dramatische Machtverschiebungen innerhalb des Landtages. Andererseits spiegelt selbst das Wahlergebnis von 2026 immer noch die <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/">sozio-kulturellen Verwerfungen des 19. Jahrhunderts</a> wider. </p> 492 493 494 495<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Arbeit mit der heterogenen Studierendengruppe hat mir viel Spaà gemacht. Meine Folien zur Wahlanalyse kann man sich hier anschauen:</p> 496 497 498 499<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/landtagswahl-2026-rheinland-pfalz.pdf"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/landtagswahl-2026-rlp-afd-1200x675.png" alt="Analyse zur Landtagswahl 2026 in Rheinland-Pfalz 8" class="wp-image-33290" title="Analyse zur Landtagswahl 2026 in Rheinland-Pfalz 8" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/landtagswahl-2026-rlp-afd-1200x675.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/landtagswahl-2026-rlp-afd-300x169.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/landtagswahl-2026-rlp-afd-768x432.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/landtagswahl-2026-rlp-afd.png 1260w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a></figure> 500<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 501<!-- YARPP List --> 502<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 503<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 504<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 505<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 506</ol> 507</div> 508]]></content> 509 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/landtagswahl-2026-rheinland-pfalz/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 510 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 511 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 512 </entry> 513 <entry> 514 <author> 515 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 516 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 517 </author> 518 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Der Wal und ich]]></title> 519 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/der-wal-und-ich/" /> 520 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33294</id> 521 <updated>2026-05-11T10:52:27+02:00</updated> 522 <published>2026-05-06T10:51:58+02:00</published> 523 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wal und Wahlforschung: mit der dpa haben diverse Kolleg:innen und ich darüber gesprochen, wie aus dem verirrten Meeressäuger ein Politikum geworden ist und was das für die Zukunft erwarten lässt.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 524<!-- YARPP List --> 525<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 526<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 527<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 528<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 529</ol> 530</div> 531]]></summary> 532 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/der-wal-und-ich/"><![CDATA[ 533<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wal und Wahlforschung: mit der dpa haben diverse Kolleg:innen und ich darüber gesprochen, wie aus dem verirrten Meeressäuger ein Politikum geworden ist und was das für die Zukunft erwarten lässt.</p> 534 535 536 537<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-die-zeit wp-block-embed-die-zeit"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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538<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.zeit.de/news/2026-05/06/timmy-ein-rettungsmaerchen-was-bleibt-vom-wal-trubel#secret=6a0198b0b31c5" title="Drama in Serie: Timmy, ein Rettungsmärchen â Was bleibt vom Wal-Trubel?" data-secret="6a0198b0b31c5" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 539</div></figure> 540<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 541<!-- YARPP List --> 542<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 543<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 544<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 545<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 546</ol> 547</div> 548]]></content> 549 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/der-wal-und-ich/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 550 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 551 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 552 </entry> 553 <entry> 554 <author> 555 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 556 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 557 </author> 558 <title type="html"><![CDATA[I’m still going on about the Baden-Württemberg/Rhineland-Palatinate elections, mas desta vez em português.]]></title> 559 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-baden-wurttemberg-rhineland-palatinate-elections-mas-desta-vez-em-portugues/" /> 560 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33248</id> 561 <updated>2026-03-23T09:01:03+01:00</updated> 562 <published>2026-03-23T09:00:59+01:00</published> 563 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Few people outside Germany would care much about regional elections were it not for the far right. And so, another Portuguese journalist ended up talking at length with some colleagues and me. And there is even more:<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 564<!-- YARPP List --> 565<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 566<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/ecpr-joint-sessions-2013-facebook-fanpage/" rel="bookmark" title="ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage">ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage</a></li> 567<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 568<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/counter-mobilisation-in-the-village/" rel="bookmark" title="Counter-mobilisation in the village">Counter-mobilisation in the village</a></li> 569</ol> 570</div> 571]]></summary> 572 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-baden-wurttemberg-rhineland-palatinate-elections-mas-desta-vez-em-portugues/"><![CDATA[ 573<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Few people outside Germany would care much about regional elections were it not for the far right. And so, another Portuguese journalist ended up talking at length with some colleagues and me. </p> 574 575 576 577<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-not-cias-ao-minuto wp-block-embed-not-cias-ao-minuto"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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588<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/2950770/disputas-renhidas-marcam-campanhas-eleitorais-nas-regionais-alemas#secret=69c0f33d7e78c" title="Disputas renhidas marcam campanhas eleitorais nas regionais alemãs" data-secret="69c0f33d7e78c" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 589</div></figure> 590<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 591<!-- YARPP List --> 592<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 593<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/ecpr-joint-sessions-2013-facebook-fanpage/" rel="bookmark" title="ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage">ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage</a></li> 594<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 595<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/counter-mobilisation-in-the-village/" rel="bookmark" title="Counter-mobilisation in the village">Counter-mobilisation in the village</a></li> 596</ol> 597</div> 598]]></content> 599 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-baden-wurttemberg-rhineland-palatinate-elections-mas-desta-vez-em-portugues/#c
599omments" thr:count="0"/> 600 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 601 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 602 </entry> 603 <entry> 604 <author> 605 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 606 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 607 </author> 608 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Counter-mobilisation in the village]]></title> 609 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/counter-mobilisation-in-the-village/" /> 610 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33242</id> 611 <updated>2026-03-21T11:24:24+01:00</updated> 612 <published>2026-03-21T11:10:00+01:00</published> 613 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="campaign" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Does local counter-mobilisation against the radical right work? We do not know for sure, but it's fun to watch.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 614<!-- YARPP List --> 615<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 616<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 617<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 618<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 619</ol> 620</div> 621]]></summary> 622 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/counter-mobilisation-in-the-village/"><![CDATA[<p>The neighbouring village is essentially a case study for political sociologists. Decades of suburbanisation notwithstanding, it is one of the few places that can still sustain a Catholic amateur orchestra that even attracts young players. Needless to say, the place is a stronghold for the Christian Democrats.</p> 623<p>It also features a pro-refugee group that goes back 35 years, and a fair-trade shop run by volunteers that has been operating since the early 1980s. The whole vibe is very much pre-unification Federal Republic.</p> 624<p>But the village (or rather an outlying sub-hamlet) is also home to a sitting State MP for the AfD. In his immediate neighbourhood, the party is doing well, and the whole village gets plastered with AfD posters every time there is an election. Yet as a whole, the village and the wider area is not amused. AfD events are regularly protested, posters get vandalised, and the MP in question is excluded from public events where legally feasible.</p> 625<p>Does this make a difference?</p> 626<p>Whether (local) counter-mobilisation against the far right actually works has turned from an interesting academic question into a real-world problem rather quickly. And as questions go, this is a tough one for at least two reasons. First, to assess the difference that counter-mobilisation makes, we would need to compare our political reality to a situation where it did not happen. Second, mobilisation is not random but obviously contingent on the presence/absence of people who would never support the radical right.</p> 627<p>In short, it is very difficult to make credible causal claims about in this situation. There is some research on the effect of counter-mobilisation on far-right voting in <a href="https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/265810" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France</a> and <a href="https://academic.oup.com/poq/article-abstract/88/3/1032/7841964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Italy</a>, but much more needs to be done.</p> 628<p>What we do know, however, is that counter-mobilisation is getting under the skin of at least one MP in at least one neighbouring village who would like to win the district seat (Rhineland-Palatinate uses a mixed-member system for state elections). The rather petulant message on the billboard roughly translates as “You can no-platform me. You can fight me. You cannot stop me.” Which is technically correct, as he has a secure spot on the state-wide list, but still smacks of whistling in the dark and seems like a ridiculous use of his campaign resources.</p> 629<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 630<!-- YARPP List --> 631<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 632<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">
632Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 633<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 634<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 635</ol> 636</div> 637]]></content> 638 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/counter-mobilisation-in-the-village/#comments" thr:count="7"/> 639 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="7"/> 640 <thr:total>7</thr:total> 641 </entry> 642 <entry> 643 <author> 644 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 645 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 646 </author> 647 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Law, order, and the far right in Germany]]></title> 648 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/law-order-and-the-far-right-in-germany/" /> 649 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33237</id> 650 <updated>2026-03-16T09:27:05+01:00</updated> 651 <published>2026-03-16T09:16:00+01:00</published> 652 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="campaign" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="rhineland-palatinate" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Lenin allegedly said that Germans would buy platform tickets before storming a train stations. He didn't realise that this cuts both ways. <div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 653<!-- YARPP List --> 654<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 655<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-greece-leave-euro-campaign-communication-south/" rel="bookmark" title="“Why did Greece leave the Euro?” Campaign Communication in the South">“Why did Greece leave the Euro?” Campaign Communication in the South</a></li> 656<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 657<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 658</ol> 659</div> 660]]></summary> 661 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/law-order-and-the-far-right-in-germany/"><![CDATA[<p>Rhineland-Palatinate is going to the polls next weekend, and it’s not a pretty sight. The state AfD came up with a characteristically charming slogan that roughly translates as “Our country, our values. We are going to sort this out.” Charming, as I said, as it is a textbook example of exclusionary nationalism that is not at all menacing.</p> 662<p>And they brought this slogan to our commuter village, in the shape of a large billboard hoisted to the top of a truck.</p> 663<p>For more than a decade, the AfD underperformed in the village. An odd blend of old-style working-class leftism, imported small-city liberalism, and still-surviving Christian-Democratic networks helped to keep them at bay. This has changed with the 2025 Bundestag election, when local results were more or less identical with the state and national ones. But the village is still not exactly friendly ground. AfD posters tend to get vandalised around here, and sending the truck was clearly meant as a statement.</p> 664<p>On the day I spotted it, the truck sat stationary just outside the access road of a large supermarket. The scene was a nice, positively ironic juxtaposition with the whole law-of-the-land shebang for two reasons. First, what you can see here is clearly a parking violation aimed at avoiding any allegations of trespassing on private land. Second, there are rules about when parties may deploy campaign material on public ground, and this stunt happened a few days too early.</p> 665<p>So I did what every law-abiding German who has internalised the country’s values would have done in my stead: I called the department of the local council that deals with public-order infractions and lodged a complaint. It’s what Jesus would have done if he had been German.</p> 666<p>Another family member who passed the same spot 20 minutes later reported that the truck was gone. Situation sorted, if only for that day. Our country, our values.</p> 667<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 668<!-- YARPP List --> 669<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 670<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-greece-leave-euro-campaign-communication-south/" rel="bookmark" title="“Why did Greece leave the Euro?” Campaign Communication in the South">“Why did Greece leave the Euro?” Campaign Communication in the South</a></li> 671<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">
671Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 672<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 673</ol> 674</div> 675]]></content> 676 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/law-order-and-the-far-right-in-germany/#comments" thr:count="15"/> 677 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="15"/> 678 <thr:total>15</thr:total> 679 </entry> 680 <entry> 681 <author> 682 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 683 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 684 </author> 685 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Send me (your) references for the 2026 edition of the radical right bibliography]]></title> 686 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/send-me-your-references-for-the-2026-edition-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/" /> 687 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33229</id> 688 <updated>2026-02-24T16:31:26+01:00</updated> 689 <published>2026-02-26T10:30:00+01:00</published> 690 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="bibliography" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It’s that time of the year again: I’m compiling the 2026 edition of the ever expanding, endlessly eclectic, eminently erudite extreme right bibliography. And I need your help. If you know of articles, chapters, and books that should be part of the bibliography but are currently missing, please do send the references over to me. ... <a title="Send me (your) references for the 2026 edition of the radical right bibliography" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/send-me-your-references-for-the-2026-edition-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/" aria-label="Read more about Send me (your) references for the 2026 edition of the radical right bibliography">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 691<!-- YARPP List --> 692<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 693<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/arzheimer-reply-lakatos-reloaded/" rel="bookmark" title="Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister">Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister</a></li> 694<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germany-wall-head-twenty-years-unification/" rel="bookmark" title="Germany: The Wall in the Head, twenty years after unification">Germany: The Wall in the Head, twenty years after unification</a></li> 695<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/r-vs-stata/" rel="bookmark" title="R vs Stata">R vs Stata</a></li> 696</ol> 697</div> 698]]></summary> 699 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/send-me-your-references-for-the-2026-edition-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/"><![CDATA[<div class="wp-block-image wp-duotone-blue-orange"> 700<figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="950" height="1658" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/more-books.png" alt="Send me (your) references for the 2026 edition of the radical right bibliography 9" class="wp-image-33230" style="aspect-ratio:0.5729801834028192;width:275px;height:auto" title="Send me (your) references for the 2026 edition of the radical right bibliography 9" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/more-books.png 950w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/more-books-172x300.png 172w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/more-books-768x1340.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/more-books-880x1536.png 880w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 950px) 100v
700w, 950px" /></figure> 701</div> 702 703 704<p class="wp-block-paragraph">It’s that time of the year again: I’m compiling the 2026 edition of the ever expanding, endlessly eclectic, eminently erudite <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/" data-type="page" data-id="1743">extreme right bibliography</a>. </p> 705 706 707 708<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And I need <em>your</em> help. If you know of articles, chapters, and books that should be part of the bibliography but are currently missing, please do send the references over to me. Preferably in an email (arzheimer AT politik.uni-mainz.de) with a PDF attached. </p> 709 710 711 712<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If that is not feasible for some reason, just mail/DM me the title/DOI. Obviously there are no guarantees that I will include your references, but I’ll check out each one and I really do appreciate your input. </p> 713 714 715 716<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I’m particularly happy if you point me towards the work of scholars belonging to groups that are disadvantaged in science, because they are still severely underrepresented in the bibliography. </p> 717 718 719 720<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And don’t hesitate to send me your own work. The boys do it all the time. </p> 721<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 722<!-- YARPP List --> 723<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 724<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/arzheimer-reply-lakatos-reloaded/" rel="bookmark" title="Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister">Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister</a></li> 725<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germany-wall-head-twenty-years-unification/" rel="bookmark" title="Germany: The Wall in the Head, twenty years after unification">Germany: The Wall in the Head, twenty years after unification</a></li> 726<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/r-vs-stata/" rel="bookmark" title="R vs Stata">R vs Stata</a></li> 727</ol> 728</div> 729]]></content> 730 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/send-me-your-references-for-the-2026-edition-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/#comments" thr:count="24"/> 731 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="24"/> 732 <thr:total>24</thr:total> 733 </entry> 734 <entry> 735 <author> 736 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 737 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 738 </author> 739 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Präsentation: Perspektiven der Rechtsradikalismusforschung]]></title> 740 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/prasentation-perspektiven-rechtsradikalismusforschung/" /> 741 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33224</id> 742 <updated>2026-02-24T15:43:49+01:00</updated> 743 <published>2026-02-24T15:43:49+01:00</published> 744 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="talks" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Vor einigen Wochen durfte ich auf Einladung von Schwuguntia e.V. in der Bar jeder Sicht einige Aspekte meiner Forschung aus den letzten â 25 Jahren vorstellen. Selten hatte ich ein so aufmerksames, interessiertes und intelligentes Publikum, und das trotz der Uhrzeit (Freitagabend!). Wer es nachlesen möchte: Alle Folien zum Vortrag gibt es hier â<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 745<!-- YARPP List --> 746<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 747<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 748<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 749<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 750</ol> 751</div> 752]]></summary> 753 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/prasentation-perspektiven-rechtsradikalismusforschung/"><![CDATA[<p>Vor einigen Wochen durfte ich auf Einladung von <a href="https://schwuguntia.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schwuguntia e.V.</a> in der <a href="https://barjedersicht.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bar jeder Sicht</a> einige Aspekte meiner Forschung aus den letzten â 25 Jahren vorstellen.</p> 754<p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/igitte-von-bingen.bsky.social/post/3mdnyfyvgoc2k" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33221 size-full" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/was-tun-gegen-rechte.jpg" alt="Präsentation: Perspektiven der Rechtsradikalismusforschung 12" width="654" height="845" title="Präsentation: Perspektiven der Rechtsradikalismusforschung 12" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/was-tun-gegen-rechte.jpg 654w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/was-tun-gegen-rechte-232x300.jpg 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px" /></a></p> 755<p>Selten hatte ich ein so aufmerksames, interessiertes und intelligentes Publikum, und das trotz der Uhrzeit (Freitagabend!). Wer es nachlesen möchte: Alle Folien zum Vortrag gibt es hier â</p> 756<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rechtsradikalismus-forschung.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-33220 size-full" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rechtsradikalismus-perspektiven.png" alt="Präsentation: Perspektiven der Rechtsradikalismusforschung 13" width="1260" height="709" title="Präsentation: Perspektiven der Rechtsradikalismusforschung 13" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rechtsradikalismus-perspektiven.png 1260w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rechtsradikalismus-perspektiven-300x169.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rechtsradikalismus-perspektiven-1200x675.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rechtsradikalismus-perspektiven-768x432.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1260px) 100v
756w, 1260px" /></a></p> 757<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 758<!-- YARPP List --> 759<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 760<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 761<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 762<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 763</ol> 764</div> 765]]></content> 766 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/prasentation-perspektiven-rechtsradikalismusforschung/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 767 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 768 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 769 </entry> 770 <entry> 771 <author> 772 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 773 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 774 </author> 775 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt: Vetternwirtschaft in der AfD]]></title> 776 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gesprach-mit-dem-handelsblatt-vetternwirtschaft-in-der-afd/" /> 777 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33209</id> 778 <updated>2026-02-20T11:27:30+01:00</updated> 779 <published>2026-02-20T11:27:24+01:00</published> 780 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Stoppt *dieser* Skandal den Aufstieg der AfD?<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 781<!-- YARPP List --> 782<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 783<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 784<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 785<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 786</ol> 787</div> 788]]></summary> 789 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gesprach-mit-dem-handelsblatt-vetternwirtschaft-in-der-afd/"><![CDATA[ 790<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das Handelsblatt berichtet ausführlich über die Reaktion des “Vorfelds” auf den Skandal um die Beschäftigung von Freunden und Verwandten als Mitarbeiter von AfD-Abgeordneten und -Fraktionen. Zur Frage, wie sich das in den kommenden Wahlen auswirken könnte, gibt es ein paar skeptische Einschätzungen von mir.</p> 791 792 793 794<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-www-handelsblatt-com wp-block-embed-www-handelsblatt-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
795<script src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/plugins/embed-extended/assets/js/embed.js?ver=1.4.0"></script>
795<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/parteien-hoecke-vertrauter-wirft-afd-schweren-glaubwuerdigkeitsverlust-vor/100200083.html#secret=699840cc3189a" title="Parteien: Höcke-Vertrauter wirft AfD schweren Glaubwürdigkeitsverlust vor" data-secret="699840cc3189a" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 796</div></figure> 797<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 798<!-- YARPP List --> 799<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 800<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 801<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 802<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 803</ol> 804</div> 805]]></content> 806 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gesprach-mit-dem-handelsblatt-vetternwirtschaft-in-der-afd/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 807 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 808 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 809 </entry> 810 <entry> 811 <author> 812 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 813 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 814 </author> 815 <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter]]></title> 816 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-bot-leaving-twitter/" /> 817 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33198</id> 818 <updated>2026-02-23T23:54:30+01:00</updated> 819 <published>2026-02-04T20:10:26+01:00</published> 820 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="bibliography" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="social media" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The bot had finally enough of the cesspit. <div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 821<!-- YARPP List --> 822<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 823<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 824<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 825<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 826</ol> 827</div> 828]]></summary> 829 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-bot-leaving-twitter/"><![CDATA[ 830<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Eight years ago on this day, the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Radical Right Research Robot</a> sent its first experimental tweet.</p> 831 832 833 834<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="598" height="346" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rrresrobot-1.png" alt="The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter 14" class="wp-image-33203" title="The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter 14" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rrresrobot-1.png 598w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rrresrobot-1-300x174.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /></figure> 835 836 837 838<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Since February 27, it has posted regularly, apart from some outages caused by changes at Twitter. </p> 839 840 841 842<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="598" height="694" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rrresrobot-2.png" alt="The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter 15" class="wp-image-33204" title="The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter 15" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rrresrobot-2.png 598w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/rrresrobot-2-259x300.png 259w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /></figure> 843 844 845 846<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This ends today. As the bot has told me repeatedly, it cannot, in good conscience, remain active on this platform, for reasons that should be fairly obvious.</p> 847 848 849 850<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="598" height="547" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/thank-for-all-the-fish.png" alt="The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter 16" class="wp-image-33186" title="The Radical Right Research Bot is leaving Twitter 16" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/thank-for-all-the-fish.png 598w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/thank-for-all-the-fish-300x274.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /></figure> 851 852 853 854<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The bot will, however, continue to post on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rrresrobot.bsky.social" target="_blank" data-type="link" data-id="https://bsky.app/profile/rrresrobot.bsky.social" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bluesky</a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/@RRResRobot" target="_blank" data-type="link" data-id="https://fediscience.org/@RRResRobot" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mastodon</a>, where it has been active for two/three years, respectively, so you might want to follow it there. Onwards and upwards.</p> 855 856 857 858<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 859<blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:f4rlgu5qxr6zqd37ifgxr3rj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbdf7656hz26" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreie4sus33aceukkrqru7qfopjnnxuphpadcpt5ao3l2hn2khd5xsum"><p>For further stuff on Radical Right-Wing parties go to https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/</p>— <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f4rlgu5qxr6zqd37ifgxr3rj?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RRResRobot (@rrresrobot.bsky.social)</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f4rlgu5qxr6zqd37ifgxr3rj/post/3mbdf7656hz26?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2026-01-01T03:00:04.137091Z</a></blockquote>
859<script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
859 860</div></figure> 861<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 862<!-- YARPP List --> 863<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 864<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 865<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 866<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 867</ol> 868</div> 869]]></content> 870 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-bot-leaving-twitter/#comments" thr:count="23"/> 871 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="23"/> 872 <thr:total>23</thr:total> 873 </entry> 874 <entry> 875 <author> 876 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 877 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 878 </author> 879 <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Grand Total of four decades of research on the New Radical Right in Europe]]></title> 880 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-decades-of-research-new-radical-right-europe/" /> 881 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33179</id> 882 <updated>2026-01-24T16:48:37+01:00</updated> 883 <published>2026-01-24T16:48:32+01:00</published> 884 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Going forward from today, I will stop publishing and simply repost this meme regularly.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 885<!-- YARPP List --> 886<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 887<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-a-difference-10-years-make/" rel="bookmark" title="What a difference 10 years make">What a difference 10 years make</a></li> 888<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 889<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/arzheimer-reply-lakatos-reloaded/" rel="bookmark" title="Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister">Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister</a></li> 890</ol> 891</div> 892]]></summary> 893 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-decades-of-research-new-radical-right-europe/"><![CDATA[ 894<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Going forward from today, I will stop publishing and simply repost this meme regularly.</p> 895 896 897 898<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 899<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 900<!-- YARPP List --> 901<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 902<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-a-difference-10-years-make/" rel="bookmark" title="What a difference 10 years make">What a difference 10 years make</a></li> 903<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 904<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/arzheimer-reply-lakatos-reloaded/" rel="bookmark" title="Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister">Lakatos reloaded. A reply to Lister</a></li> 905</ol> 906</div> 907]]></content> 908 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-decades-of-research-new-radical-right-europe/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 909 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 910 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 911 </entry> 912 <entry> 913 <author> 914 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 915 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 916 </author> 917 <title type="html"><![CDATA[What a difference 10 years make]]></title> 918 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-a-difference-10-years-make/" /> 919 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33158</id> 920 <updated>2025-12-22T23:28:22+01:00</updated> 921 <published>2025-12-22T09:40:00+01:00</published> 922 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Going through a folder of potentially useful screenshots, I came across these two gems. Back in 2014, the AfD claimed the US treated Germany like its doormat. Since 2024, they have been best buddies with the MAGA crowd. Something to reflect on.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 923<!-- YARPP List --> 924<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 925<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 926<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">
926Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 927<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/three-bluesky-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Three Bluesky links I liked">Three Bluesky links I liked</a></li> 928</ol> 929</div> 930]]></summary> 931 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-a-difference-10-years-make/"><![CDATA[ 932<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Going through a folder of potentially useful screenshots, I came across these two gems. Back in 2014, the AfD claimed the US treated Germany like its doormat.</p> 933 934 935 936<figure class="wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped is-style-rectangular wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex"> 937<figure class="wp-block-image size-medium"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="300" data-id="33159" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/464001134_8890228004340793_767226847093571610_n-300x300.png" alt="What a difference 10 years make 17" class="wp-image-33159" title="What a difference 10 years make 17" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/464001134_8890228004340793_767226847093571610_n-300x300.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/464001134_8890228004340793_767226847093571610_n-150x150.png 150w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/464001134_8890228004340793_767226847093571610_n-120x120.png 120w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/464001134_8890228004340793_767226847093571610_n.png 500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></figure> 938 939 940 941<figure class="wp-block-image size-medium"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="291" height="300" data-id="33160" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Alice-Weidel-JD-Vance-Muenchen-2023-02-15-768x793-347622617-291x300.jpg" alt="What a difference 10 years make 18" class="wp-image-33160" title="What a difference 10 years make 18" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Alice-Weidel-JD-Vance-Muenchen-2023-02-15-768x793-347622617-291x300.jpg 291w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Alice-Weidel-JD-Vance-Muenchen-2023-02-15-768x793-347622617.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px" /></figure> 942</figure> 943 944 945 946<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Since 2024, they have been best buddies with the MAGA crowd. Something to reflect on.</p> 947 948 949 950<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 951<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 952<!-- YARPP List --> 953<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 954<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 955<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 956<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/three-bluesky-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Three Bluesky links I liked">Three Bluesky links I liked</a></li> 957</ol> 958</div> 959]]></content> 960 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-a-difference-10-years-make/#comments" thr:count="7"/> 961 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="7"/> 962 <thr:total>7</thr:total> 963 </entry> 964 <entry> 965 <author> 966 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 967 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 968 </author> 969 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Germany’s far right in ascendancy: normalised, professionalised, and further radicalised]]></title> 970 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/afd-portrait/" /> 971 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33154</id> 972 <updated>2025-12-14T21:46:28+01:00</updated> 973 <published>2025-12-14T21:45:41+01:00</published> 974 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Tom Nuttall is a proper Deutschlandvorsteher. We recently had a lengthy chat, because he was given the task to write an ‘unflinching portrait’ of Alternative for Germany for the Economist. Reading the finished product, which was published today, I’d say that the man has delivered the goods. You can see for yourself, as he kindly ... <a title="Germany’s far right in ascendancy: normalised, professionalised, and further radicalised" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/afd-portrait/" aria-label="Read more about Germany’s far right in ascendancy: normalised, professionalised, and further radicalised">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 975<!-- YARPP List --> 976<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 977<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/weniger-rechtsextremismus-in-deutsc
977hland/" rel="bookmark" title="Weniger Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland?">Weniger Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland?</a></li> 978<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 979<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 980</ol> 981</div> 982]]></summary> 983 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/afd-portrait/"><![CDATA[ 984<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://muckrack.com/tom_nuttall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Nuttall</a> is a proper Deutschlandvorsteher. We recently had a lengthy chat, because he was given the task to write an ‘unflinching portrait’ of Alternative for Germany for the Economist. Reading the finished product, which was published today, I’d say that the man has delivered the goods. You can see for yourself, as he kindly sent me a gift link that currently bypasses the pay wall.</p> 985 986 987 988<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/12/11/the-alternative-for-germany-is-the-leading-party-in-some-german-polls?giftId=NWZkY2RiMWEtYWEyMi00NjUxLWFlMjYtMTExY2NlMTE3NTg1dGVnX3VzZXI%3D&utm_campaign=gifted_article" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251213_fbd0024268595851741819366-1200x675.jpg" alt="Germany's far right in ascendancy: normalised, professionalised, and further radicalised 19" class="wp-image-33155" title="Germany's far right in ascendancy: normalised, professionalised, and further radicalised 19" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251213_fbd0024268595851741819366-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251213_fbd0024268595851741819366-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251213_fbd0024268595851741819366-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251213_fbd0024268595851741819366.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></a></figure> 989 990 991 992<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As is the way with such chats, exactly one thing I said is quoted verbatim in the article. This is fine, because Tom is a much better writer than me. But if you’re interested, much of what I told him about the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/right-wing-populism-germany-normalisation/">AfD’s early transformation is freely available here</a>, and so is more about <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/the-afd-and-russia/">the AfD’s Russian connection</a> than Tom ever wanted to know.</p> 993<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 994<!-- YARPP List --> 995<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 996<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/weniger-rechtsextremismus-in-deutschland/" rel="bookmark" title="Weniger Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland?">Weniger Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland?</a></li> 997<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 998<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 999</ol> 1000</div> 1001]]></content> 1002 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/afd-portrait/#comments" thr:count="13"/> 1003 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="13"/> 1004 <thr:total>13</thr:total> 1005 </entry> 1006 <entry> 1007 <author> 1008 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1009 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1010 </author> 1011 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Weniger Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland?]]></title> 1012 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/weniger-rechtsextremismus-in-deutsc
1012hland/" /> 1013 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33141</id> 1014 <updated>2025-11-09T21:38:56+01:00</updated> 1015 <published>2025-11-13T21:33:21+01:00</published> 1016 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Für den “Systemfragen” Podcast des Deutschlandfunks durfte ich letzte Woche einige der Ergebnisse der jüngsten “Mitte”-Studie einordnen. Die vollen 30 Minuten zum Nachhören gibt es hier ð§<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1017<!-- YARPP List --> 1018<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1019<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 1020<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 1021<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 1022</ol> 1023</div> 1024]]></summary> 1025 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/weniger-rechtsextremismus-in-deutschland/"><![CDATA[ 1026<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Für den “Systemfragen” Podcast des Deutschlandfunks durfte ich letzte Woche einige der Ergebnisse der <a href="https://www.fes.de/mitte-studie" target="_blank" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.fes.de/mitte-studie" rel="noreferrer noopener">jüngsten “Mitte”-Studie</a> einordnen. Die vollen 30 Minuten zum Nachhören gibt es hier <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f3a7.png" alt="ð§" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p> 1027 1028 1029 1030<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-deutschlandfunk wp-block-embed-deutschlandfunk"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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However, Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform and the subsequent changes to its algorithm and governance ... <a title="The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot-bluesky-mastodon" aria-label="Read more about The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1057<!-- YARPP List --> 1058<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1059<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-der-dpa-zum-rheinland-pfalz-monitor-2025/" rel="bookmark" title="Interview mit der dpa zum Rheinland-Pfalz Monitor 2025">Interview mit der dpa zum Rheinland-Pfalz Monitor 2025</a></li> 1060<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 1061<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/ecpr-joint-sessions-2013-facebook-fanpage/" rel="bookmark" title="ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage">ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage</a></li> 1062</ol> 1063</div> 1064]]></summary> 1065 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot-bluesky-mastodon"><![CDATA[<p>To raise awareness of the large body of research on far-right parties and their voters, the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radical Right Research Robot</a> (RRRR) has been tweeting random references from the Extreme Right Bibliography since February 2018 and hopefully making everyone happy. However, Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform and the subsequent changes to its algorithm and governance have reduced Twitter’s (“X”) value for scientists and science communication.</p> 1066<p>Following the decline and fragmentation of Science Twitter, the RRRR has therefore branched out to alternative platforms. Since 2022, <a href="https://fediscience.org/@RRResRobot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the bot has had a presence on Mastodon</a>. A year later, it also set up shop on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rrresrobot.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bluesky</a>. Right now, RRRR still has most of its followers on Twitter (1642), but has also found a small audience on Mastodon (363) and a rather large one (1095) on Bluesky, which seems set to become the new home for many of the communities that were once part of Science Twitter.</p> 1067<p>But the bot (and I) had a dark secret: its activity on Mastodon and Bluesky depended on its ongoing presence on Twitter. RRRR’s tweets were simply mirrored to the alternative platforms via a self-hosted installation of <a href="https://github.com/louisgrasset/touitomamout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touitomamout</a>, a cross-poster implemented in NodeJS.</p> 1068<p><figure id="attachment_30768" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-30768" style="width: 790px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-30768" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/robot-mastodon-1.jpg" alt="RRResRobot loves Mastodon" width="800" height="419" title="The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter 21" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/robot-mastodon-1.jpg 800w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/robot-mastodon-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/robot-mastodon-1-768x402.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100v
1068w, 800px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-30768" class="wp-caption-text">We are so cute, it’s unbearable</figcaption></figure></p> 1069<p>While touitomamout works remarkably well, this had two unfortunate consequences. First, the bot remained tied to a platform that has long since descended into a toxic cesspit. Many colleagues, including yours truly, are no longer active on Twitter, and RRRR may want to leave some day, too. But that would have meant pulling the plug completely, across all three social networks.</p> 1070<p>Second, Musk has deliberately made life difficult for hobbyist projects like RRRR and is almost completely opposed to any form of automated access that cannot be monetised. This has led to several disruptions that have affected RRRR’s posts to Twitter, the cross-posting to Mastodon and Bluesky, or both.</p> 1071<p>In short, the system was too fragile for my liking. Someone should have upgraded the code so that RRRR could post directly to Mastodon and Bluesky even if the bot’s Twitter parts fell apart, but then again, that someone was me, and I was too lazy/busy/inept to do something about it.</p> 1072<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-32451 size-large" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/api-bluesky-r-1200x840.jpg" alt="The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter 21" width="1200" height="840" title="The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter 22" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/api-bluesky-r-1200x840.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/api-bluesky-r-300x210.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/api-bluesky-r-768x538.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/api-bluesky-r.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></p> 1073<p>What finally brought and end to my procrastination was that RRRR stopped posting on Bluesky/Mastodon a couple of days ago. The cross-posting requires an (otherwise inactive) Twitter account for accessing RRRR’s tweets, and this account had been flagged up for suspicious behaviour (not spouting extremist nonsense?) and subsequently suspended.</p> 1074<p>Because today was an extraordinary grey, cold, wet, and depressing day even by German November standards, I bit the bullet and implemented native posting to Mastodon and Bluesky. And because the developers of <a href="https://gesistsa.github.io/rtoot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rtoot</a> and <a href="https://github.com/JBGruber/atrrr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">atrrr</a> are awesome, it took all of <a href="https://gitlab.rlp.net/arzheim/rrresrobot/-/commit/30a4505763565ffba35b35e3bdcec45913f7f5d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six lines of code (two of them comments)</a> to end RRRR’s dependence on Twitter. I should have done this a year ago when I first <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/how-to-access-the-bluesky-api-from-r-fast/">stumbled across atrrr</a>. Also, I will learn nothing from this.</p> 1075<p>The worst part of it that cost me an additional hour? Installing a package dependency on my server, which uses some slightly dodgy PPAs on top of a geriatric version of its OS. I should have updated the server some time ago. As I said, I will learn nothing from this.</p> 1076<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1077<!-- YARPP List --> 1078<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1079<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-der-dpa-zum-rheinland-pfalz-monitor-2025/" rel="bookmark" title="Interview mit der dpa zum Rheinland-Pfalz Monitor 2025">Interview mit der dpa zum Rheinland-Pfalz Monitor 2025</a></li> 1080<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 1081<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/ecpr-joint-sessions-2013-facebook-fanpage/" rel="bookmark" title="ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage">ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage</a></li> 1082</ol> 1083</div> 1084]]></content> 1085 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot-bluesky-mastodon#comments" thr:count="0"/> 1086 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 1087 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 1088 </entry> 1089 <entry> 1090 <author> 1091 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1092 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1093 </author> 1094 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Interview mit der dpa zum Rheinland-Pfalz Monitor 2025]]></title> 1095 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-der-dpa-zum-rheinland-pfalz-monitor-2025/" /> 1096 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33128</id> 1097 <updated>2025-11-05T10:48:40+01:00</updated> 1098 <published>2025-11-05T10:48:35+01:00</published> 1099 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mit der dpa habe ich ausführlich über die Befunde aus dem aktuellen Demokratiemonitor für Rheinland-Pfalz gesprochen. Unter anderem die Zeit hat den Text in voller Länge und ohne Paywall übernommen.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1100<!-- YARPP List --> 1101<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1102<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/3-reasons-why-the-war-against-ukraine-matters-less-for-the-german-far-right-than-you-would-think/" rel="bookmark" title="3 reasons why the war against Ukraine matters less for the German far right than you would think">3 reasons why the war against Ukraine matters less for the German far right than you would think</a></li> 1103<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 1104<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 1105</ol> 1106</div> 1107]]></summary> 1108 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-der-dpa-zum-rheinland-pfalz-monitor-2025/"><![CDATA[ 1109<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mit der dpa habe ich ausführlich über die Befunde aus dem <a href="https://www.landtag-rlp.de/de/mitmachen/demokratie/rlp-monitor.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">aktuellen Demokratiemonitor für Rheinland-Pfalz</a> gesprochen. Unter anderem die Zeit hat den Text in voller Länge und ohne Paywall übernommen.</p> 1110 1111 1112 1113<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-die-zeit wp-block-embed-die-zeit"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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1114<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.zeit.de/news/2025-11/05/umgang-mit-antidemokratischen-tendenzen-vor-der-landtagswahl#secret=690b67558fe20" title="Landtagswahl: Umgang mit antidemokratischen Tendenzen vor der Landtagswahl" data-secret="690b67558fe20" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1115</div></figure> 1116<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1117<!-- YARPP List --> 1118<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1119<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/3-reasons-why-the-war-against-ukraine-matters-less-for-the-german-far-right-than-you-would-think/" rel="bookmark" title="3 reasons why the war against Ukraine matters less for the German far right than you would think">3 reasons why the war against Ukraine matters less for the German far right than you would think</a></li> 1120<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 1121<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 1122</ol> 1123</div> 1124]]></content> 1125 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-der-dpa-zum-rheinland-pfalz-monitor-2025/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 1126 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 1127 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 1128 </entry> 1129 <entry> 1130 <author> 1131 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1132 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1133 </author> 1134 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Islamophobia, religion, and far-right attitudes in Western Europe]]></title> 1135 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-religion-and-far-right-attitudes-in-western-europe/" /> 1136 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33123</id> 1137 <updated>2025-10-23T22:06:38+02:00</updated> 1138 <published>2025-10-23T22:06:38+02:00</published> 1139 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The LSE’s EUROPP blog has kindly published a short, accessible summary of my recent article on Islamophobia in Western Europe.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1140<!-- YARPP List --> 1141<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1142<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1143<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/political-interest-party-identification-uk" rel="bookmark" title="Political Interest Props Up Partisanship in Wales, Scotland, and England">Political Interest Props Up Partisanship in Wales, Scotland, and England</a></li> 1144<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-and-how-is-elon-musk-supporting-alternative-for-germany-and-other-european-far-right-actors/" rel="bookmark" title="Why and how is Elon Musk supporting “Alternative for Germany” and other European far-right actors?">Why and how is Elon Musk supporting “Alternative for Germany” and other European far-right actors?</a></li> 1145</ol> 1146</div> 1147]]></summary> 1148 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-religion-and-far-right-attitudes-in-western-europe/"><![CDATA[<p>The LSE’s EUROPP blog has kindly published a short, accessible summary of my recent <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680251351895" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article on Islamophobia in Western Europe.</a></p> 1149 1150<section class="h-cite response u-repost-of "> 1151<header> 1152<a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/10/07/islamophobia-western-europe-christians-study/" class="p-name u-url">Islamophobia in Western Europe is driven by nativism and authoritarianism, not religiosity</a><em> (<span class="p-publication">blogs.lse.ac.uk</span>)</em></header> 1153<blockquote class="e-summary"><p>Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens? Drawing on a new study of attitudes in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, Kai Arzheimer finds that Islamophobia ⦠<a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.u
1153k/europpblog/2025/10/07/islamophobia-western-europe-christians-study/">Continued</a></p> 1154</blockquote></section> 1155 1156 1157<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1158<!-- YARPP List --> 1159<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1160<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1161<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/political-interest-party-identification-uk" rel="bookmark" title="Political Interest Props Up Partisanship in Wales, Scotland, and England">Political Interest Props Up Partisanship in Wales, Scotland, and England</a></li> 1162<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-and-how-is-elon-musk-supporting-alternative-for-germany-and-other-european-far-right-actors/" rel="bookmark" title="Why and how is Elon Musk supporting “Alternative for Germany” and other European far-right actors?">Why and how is Elon Musk supporting “Alternative for Germany” and other European far-right actors?</a></li> 1163</ol> 1164</div> 1165]]></content> 1166 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-religion-and-far-right-attitudes-in-western-europe/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 1167 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 1168 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 1169 </entry> 1170 <entry> 1171 <author> 1172 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1173 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1174 </author> 1175 <title type="html"><![CDATA[German conservatives discuss the merit of the cordon sanitaire (Politico)]]></title> 1176 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-conservatives-discuss-the-merit-of-the-cordon-sanitaire-politico/" /> 1177 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33116</id> 1178 <updated>2025-10-20T09:41:59+02:00</updated> 1179 <published>2025-10-20T09:41:53+02:00</published> 1180 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Politico covers German conservatives’ debate about the ‘firewall’ (cordon sanitaire) and the far right’s lure, with a tiny bit of input from my good self.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1181<!-- YARPP List --> 1182<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1183<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-dukes-of-york/" rel="bookmark" title="The Dukes of York">The Dukes of York</a></li> 1184<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 1185<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1186</ol> 1187</div> 1188]]></summary> 1189 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-conservatives-discuss-the-merit-of-the-cordon-sanitaire-politico/"><![CDATA[ 1190<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Politico covers German conservatives’ debate about the ‘firewall’ (cordon sanitaire) and the far right’s lure, with a tiny bit of input from my good self.</p> 1191 1192 1193 1194<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-politico wp-block-embed-politico"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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1195<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/berlin-bulletin/the-firewall-feud/#secret=68f5f901407db" title="The firewall feud" data-secret="68f5f901407db" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1196</div></figure> 1197<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1198<!-- YARPP List --> 1199<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1200<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-dukes-of-york/" rel="bookmark" title="The Dukes of York">The Dukes of York</a></li> 1201<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 1202<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1203</ol> 1204</div> 1205]]></content> 1206 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-conservatives-discuss-the-merit-of-the-cordon-sanitaire-politico/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 1207 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 1208 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 1209 </entry> 1210 <entry> 1211 <author> 1212 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1213 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1214 </author> 1215 <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Dukes of York]]></title> 1216 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-dukes-of-york/" /> 1217 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33103</id> 1218 <updated>2025-10-19T20:38:35+02:00</updated> 1219 <published>2025-10-19T17:05:16+02:00</published> 1220 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="fun" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In which the recent kerfuffle involving one Andrew Albert Christian Edward Windsor reminded me of a family snapshot I took a while ago.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1221<!-- YARPP List --> 1222<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1223<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/article-contribution-needed/" rel="bookmark" title="“Article contribution needed”">“Article contribution needed”</a></li> 1224<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/italy-the-uk-sweden-and-russia-paying-for-afd-flights-four-european-crisis-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked">Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked</a></li> 1225<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1226</ol> 1227</div> 1228]]></summary> 1229 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-dukes-of-york/"><![CDATA[ 1230<figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p>Apropos of absolutely nothing at all: it is a little-known¹ fact that, under common law, vacant noble titles fall to the first claimant who successfully mounts the titular seat.²</p></blockquote></figure> 1231 1232 1233 1234<hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> 1235 1236 1237 1238<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br />² Transparency statement: this picture was taken a long time ago.³ In fact, long before the previous Duke renounced the title, so: definitively first dibs.</p> 1239 1240 1241 1242<p class="wp-block-paragraph">¹ Under common law, that is a technical term for ‘completely made up’</p> 1243 1244 1245 1246<p class="wp-block-paragraph">â´ Yes, this is a somewhat unconventional way to arrange footnotes</p> 1247 1248 1249 1250<p class="wp-block-paragraph">³ And yes, the photo <em>was</em> taken in Yorkvilleâµ, Toronto (ON), a place that was named for the Grand Old Duke of York (who had 10,000 men). Which further strengthens the claim.</p> 1251 1252 1253 1254<p class="wp-block-paragraph">âµ The pub sits <em>just</em> west of Avenue Road, traditionally the boundary between Yorkville and the Annex. A mere technicality. </p> 1255 1256 1257 1258<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> </p> 1259<span class="syn-text">Also on:</span>
1259<p class="relsyn"><span><a aria-label="bluesky" class="u-syndication syn-link" href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bazcpmyw3kcuy53b43m5xtfp/post/3m3k2icelyt2h"> Bluesky</a></span><span><a aria-label="fediscience.org" class="u-syndication syn-link" href="https://fediscience.org/@kaiarzheimer/115401494343539703"> fediscience.org</a></span></p><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1260<!-- YARPP List --> 1261<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1262<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/article-contribution-needed/" rel="bookmark" title="“Article contribution needed”">“Article contribution needed”</a></li> 1263<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/italy-the-uk-sweden-and-russia-paying-for-afd-flights-four-european-crisis-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked">Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked</a></li> 1264<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1265</ol> 1266</div> 1267]]></content> 1268 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-dukes-of-york/#comments" thr:count="2"/> 1269 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="2"/> 1270 <thr:total>2</thr:total> 1271 </entry> 1272 <entry> 1273 <author> 1274 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1275 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1276 </author> 1277 <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Article contribution needed”]]></title> 1278 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/article-contribution-needed/" /> 1279 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33067</id> 1280 <updated>2025-10-09T10:26:29+02:00</updated> 1281 <published>2025-10-09T09:24:47+02:00</published> 1282 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="fun" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Predatory journals are getting lazy<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1283<!-- YARPP List --> 1284<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1285<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 1286<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/empirische-extremismusforschung/" rel="bookmark" title="Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung">Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung</a></li> 1287<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1288</ol> 1289</div> 1290]]></summary> 1291 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/article-contribution-needed/"><![CDATA[ 1292<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My old friends at the esteemed journal sent me another missive. It’s basically a love letter of the needy-to-desperate kind. </p> 1293 1294 1295 1296<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What I like about them is that they don’t pigeonhole me into <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-a-cardiologist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="30965">cardiology</a>, <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-a-urologist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="30342">urology</a>, or even <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-andrologist-anthropologist-archaeologist-cardiologist-cum-urologist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="31112">archaeology-anthropology-andrology</a>.</p> 1297 1298 1299 1300<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nah, at the Digital Journal of Science, anyone is welcome to write about anything, including, but presumably not limited to, “The Arts, Environmental Science, Earth Science, Pharmacy, Medicine, Agriculture, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Educational Science, Communication Studies, Commerce, Social Sciences, Management, and Engineering â¦etc.” Google them, their website is fun.</p> 1301 1302 1303 1304<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYzkwZ2JhYnY0N254bjA5ajlsOWhpMDExYmdkYTJxYXBxM3hzc2Q5NyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3o7WTP8jVcaWvq747S/giphy.gif" alt=""Article contribution needed" 22" title=""Article contribution needed" 23"></figure> 1305 1306 1307 1308<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Will I support them? Will I revert them (see below)? Who knows. </p> 1309 1310 1311 1312<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> 1313<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dear Kai Arzheimer,</p> 1314 1315 1316 1317<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I wish you well, as always.</p> 1318 1319 1320 1321<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We are in lack of merely one article for the successful release of Volume 2, Issue 8<br />on or before 22nd October. Can I expect an article from your end?</p> 1322 1323 1324 1325<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I hope you can submit at least 2 pages of opinion/mini review article if you are in<br />your busy schedule.</p> 1326 1327 1328 1329<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Your support would be greatly appreciated. We look forward to hearing from you soon.</p> 1330 1331 1332 1333<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All published articles will be provided with digital object identifier (DOI) issued<br />by Cross ref.</p> 1334 1335 1336 1337<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Thanks in advance for your reply.</p> 1338 1339 1340 1341<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With gratitude,</p> 1342 1343 1344 1345<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Jessica Johnson</p> 1346 1347 1348 1349<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Westland Publishers</p> 1350 1351 1352 1353<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Digital Journal of Science (DJS)| ISSN: 3066-3822</p> 1354 1355 1356 1357<p class="wp-block-paragraph">1106 Bowie drive Lewisville Texas 75077</p> 1358 1359 1360 1361<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you wish to not receive our email, please revert us</p> 1362</blockquote> 1363<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1364<!-- YARPP List --> 1365<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1366<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 1367<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/empirische-extremismusforschung/" rel="bookmark" title="Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung">Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung</a></li> 1368<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1369</ol> 1370</div> 1371]]></content> 1372 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/article-contribution-needed/#comments" thr:count="9"/> 1373 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="9"/> 1374 <thr:total>9</thr:total> 1375 </entry> 1376 <entry> 1377 <author> 1378 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1379 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1380 </author> 1381 <title type="html">
1381<![CDATA[Late-stage capitalism, single-picture edition]]></title> 1382 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/late-stage-capitalism-single-picture-edition/" /> 1383 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33037</id> 1384 <updated>2025-09-18T14:38:49+02:00</updated> 1385 <published>2025-10-02T09:33:53+02:00</published> 1386 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1387<!-- YARPP List --> 1388<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1389<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-roboticist-now-%f0%9f%a4%96/" rel="bookmark" title="I’m an eminent roboticist now ð¤">I’m an eminent roboticist now ð¤</a></li> 1390<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/conceptual-confusion-european-radical-right-studies/" rel="bookmark" title="Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies">Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies</a></li> 1391<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/video-4-critical-elections-europe-2017" rel="bookmark" title="Video: the radical right & 4 critical elections in Western Europe in 2017">Video: the radical right & 4 critical elections in Western Europe in 2017</a></li> 1392</ol> 1393</div> 1394]]></summary> 1395 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/late-stage-capitalism-single-picture-edition/"><![CDATA[ 1396<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="870" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/childrens-hospital-1200x870.jpg" alt="Exterior of a building with a sign reading "CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL" above a sign reading "Casino." Playing cards are visible in the window." class="wp-image-33038" title="Late-stage capitalism, single-picture edition 24" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/childrens-hospital-1200x870.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/childrens-hospital-300x217.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/childrens-hospital-768x557.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/childrens-hospital-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/childrens-hospital.jpg 1655w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></figure> 1397<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1398<!-- YARPP List --> 1399<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1400<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-roboticist-now-%f0%9f%a4%96/" rel="bookmark" title="I’m an eminent roboticist now ð¤">I’m an eminent roboticist now ð¤</a></li> 1401<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/conceptual-confusion-european-radical-right-studies/" rel="bookmark" title="Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies">Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies</a></li> 1402<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/video-4-critical-elections-europe-2017" rel="bookmark" title="Video: the radical right & 4 critical elections in Western Europe in 2017">Video: the radical right & 4 critical elections in Western Europe in 2017</a></li> 1403</ol> 1404</div> 1405]]></content> 1406 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/late-stage-capitalism-single-picture-edition/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 1407 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 1408 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 1409 </entry> 1410 <entry> 1411 <author> 1412 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1413 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1414 </author> 1415 <title type="html"><![CDATA[I’m an eminent roboticist now ð¤]]></title> 1416 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-roboticist-now-%f0%9f%a4%96/" /> 1417 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33040</id> 1418 <updated>2025-09-18T15:02:16+02:00</updated> 1419 <published>2025-09-20T14:39:23+02:00</published> 1420 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="fun" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Who wants to be a roboticist? 1421More predatory conference opportunities for me!<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1422<!-- YARPP List --> 1423<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1424<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hey-look/" rel="bookmark" title="Hey, look!">Hey, look!</a></li> 1425<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 1426<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/r-vs-stata/" rel="bookmark" title="R vs Stata">R vs Stata</a></li> 1427</ol> 1428</div> 1429]]></summary> 1430 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-roboticist-now-%f0%9f%a4%96/"><![CDATA[ 1431<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After I had my fill of <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-a-cardiologist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="30965">medicine</a> & <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-and-optimistic-bioscientist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="31957">bioscience</a>, I have basically returned to my old twin passion of <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/yet-another-bizarre-request-from-a-predatory-publisher/" data-type="post" data-id="31589">archaeology and anthropology</a>. But a renaissance man may never rest. And so I’m happy to inform you that less than 48 hours after my <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot" data-type="post" data-id="33025">
1431research note on my social media bot was published</a>, I’m already one of the world’s foremost roboticists and have the invitation to prove it. See you in Kyoto (or, depending on the price tag, virtually but engaged)!</p> 1432 1433 1434 1435<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> 1436<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dear Dr. Kai Arzheimer,</p> 1437 1438 1439 1440<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is my great pleasure to extend a formal invitation for you to serve as a Featured Speaker at the:</p> 1441 1442 1443 1444<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Event: 2nd International Conference on Robotics & Automation<br />Dates: August 17â19, 2026<br />Venue: Tokyo, Japan</p> 1445 1446 1447 1448<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Your distinguished research, particularly â Automating awareness, digitizing dissemination: the radical right research robot as a template for (political) science communication in a fragmented social media landscapeâ, has been acknowledged by our Scientific Committee as making a significant impact in the field. In view of your expertise and scholarly contributions, we would be honored to include your lecture in the scientific program.</p> 1449 1450 1451 1452<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Participation Options:</p> 1453 1454 1455 1456<ul class="wp-block-list"> 1457<li>Deliver your presentation in person in Japan</li> 1458 1459 1460 1461<li>Present virtually and engage with our international audience online</li> 1462</ul> 1463 1464 1465 1466<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We kindly request your confirmation of participation at your earliest convenience. Upon confirmation, we will:</p> 1467 1468 1469 1470<ul class="wp-block-list"> 1471<li>Reserve your speaking slot</li> 1472 1473 1474 1475<li>Provide the detailed program schedule, presentation guidelines, and related information<br /><br /></li> 1476</ul> 1477 1478 1479 1480<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The conference will bring together eminent scholars, researchers, and practitioners from across the globe to exchange knowledge, foster collaboration, and advance the future of Robotics and Automation. Your contribution would add great value to these discussions.</p> 1481 1482 1483 1484<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We sincerely hope that you will be able to join us for this distinguished gathering.</p> 1485 1486 1487 1488<p class="wp-block-paragraph">With highest regards,<br />Jenessa Merlin | Program Manager</p> 1489</blockquote> 1490<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1491<!-- YARPP List --> 1492<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1493<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hey-look/" rel="bookmark" title="Hey, look!">Hey, look!</a></li> 1494<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 1495<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/r-vs-stata/" rel="bookmark" title="R vs Stata">R vs Stata</a></li> 1496</ol> 1497</div> 1498]]></content> 1499 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-roboticist-now-%f0%9f%a4%96/#comments" thr:count="3"/> 1500 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="3"/> 1501 <thr:total>3</thr:total> 1502 </entry> 1503 <entry> 1504 <author> 1505 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1506 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1507 </author> 1508 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Hey, look!]]></title> 1509 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hey-look/" /> 1510 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33032</id> 1511 <updated>2025-09-16T20:39:17+02:00</updated> 1512 <published>2025-09-16T20:39:12+02:00</published> 1513 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="fun" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[My paper has won an award less than 12 hours after it was published.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1514<!-- YARPP List --> 1515<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1516<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/methods-sociology-knowledge/" rel="bookmark" title="Research Methods & Sociology of Knowledge">Research Methods & Sociology of Knowledge</a></li> 1517<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot" rel="bookmark" title="Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot">Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot</a></li> 1518<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 1519</ol> 1520</div> 1521]]></summary> 1522 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hey-look/"><![CDATA[ 1523<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="702" height="358" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/award.png" alt="Hey, look! 23" class="wp-image-33033" title="Hey, look! 25" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/award.png 702w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/award-300x153.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px" /></figure> 1524 1525 1526 1527<p class="wp-block-paragraph">My <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot" data-type="post" data-id="33025">paper</a> has won an award less than 12 hours after it was published, albeit only “provisionally”. Must be these nice <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-a-cardiologist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="30965">cardiology</a> people again. I’ll spend the rest of the day feeling <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-an-eminent-and-optimistic-bioscientist-now/" data-type="post" data-id="31957">eminent</a>. </p> 1528<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1529<!-- YARPP List --> 1530<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1531<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/methods-sociology-knowledge/" rel="bookmark" title="Research Methods & Sociology of Knowledge">Research Methods & Sociology of Knowledge</a></li> 1532<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot" rel="bookmark" title="Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot">Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot</a></li> 1533<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 1534</ol> 1535</div> 1536]]></content> 1537 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hey-look/#comments" thr:count="25"/> 1538 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="25"/> 1539 <thr:total>25</thr:total> 1540 </entry> 1541 <entry> 1542 <author> 1543 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1544 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1545 </author> 1546 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot]]></title> 1547 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot" /> 1548 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33025</id> 1549 <updated>2025-09-16T14:22:30+02:00</updated> 1550 <published>2025-09-16T14:08:00+02:00</published> 1551 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="bibliography" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Social media bots: often annoying, sometimes useful. In this open access research note in PRX, I tell the origin story of @RRResRobot ð ð¤, which you absolutely want to follow. What does @RRResRobot do (and why?), what has it achieved, how can it survive post-Musk? And how can ðºð°ð¶ build your own bot for ðºð°ð¶ð³ epistemic community? Find the answers here <div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1552<!-- YARPP List --> 1553<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1554<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1555<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 1556<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 1557</ol> 1558</div> 1559]]></summary> 1560 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot"><![CDATA[<p>Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of science infrastru
1560cture. The emergence of “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-023-00581-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Science Twitter</a>“, the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as “X”, is a particularly prominent example of this trend. Within such communities, automated services (“bots”) can play an important role by raising public and internal awareness of publications in the field, fostering connections amongst researchers, and stimulating serendipitous insights.</p> 1561<ul class="papercite_bibliography"> 1562<li> Arzheimer, Kai. “Automating awareness, digitizing dissemination: the radical right research robot as a template for (political) science communication in a fragmented social media landscape.” <span style="font-weight: bold">Political Research Exchange</span> 7.1 (2025): 2549079. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079" class="papercite_doi" title="View on publisher site" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doi:10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079</a> <br /> <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="papercite_0" class="papercite_toggle">[BibTeX]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="papercite_abstract_0" class="papercite_toggle">[Abstract]</a> <a href="https://gitlab.rlp.net/arzheim/rrresrobot" title="view replication data" class="papercite_pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[DATA] </a><br /> 1563<blockquote class="papercite_bibtex" id="papercite_abstract_0_block"><p>Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of the science infrastructure. The emergence of âScience Twitterâ, the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as âXâ, is a particularly prominent example of this trend. Within such communities, automated services (âbotsâ) can play an important role by raising public and internal awareness of publications in the field, fostering connections amongst researchers, and stimulating serendipitous insights. In this note, I discuss the architecture of one such service: the Radical Right Research Robot (RRRR), written in the R programming language, which posts references and links to contributions from the vast literature on radical right/far-right parties and their voters. I also describe the various R packages and other open source tools on which RRRR relies. This description could serve as a template for similar bots in other fields. Finally, I discuss the challenges resulting from Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the subsequent decline of Science Twitter. RRRR has already branched out to two alternative text-based networks (Mastodon and Bluesky) and may eventually disengage from Twitter. While the technical difficulties involved are relatively easy to solve, fundamental issues related to platform ownership and governance persist.</p></blockquote> 1564<div class="papercite_bibtex" id="papercite_0_block"> 1565<pre><code class="tex bibtex">@Article{arzheimer-2025c, 1566author = {Kai Arzheimer}, 1567title = {Automating awareness, digitizing dissemination: the radical right 1568research robot as a template for (political) science communication 1569in a fragmented social media landscape}, 1570journal = {Political Research Exchange}, 1571year = 2025, 1572volume = 7, 1573number = 1, 1574pages = 2549079, 1575abstract = {Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part 1576of the science infrastructure. The emergence of âScience Twitterâ, 1577the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as âXâ, 1578is a particularly prominent example of this trend. Within such 1579communities, automated services (âbotsâ) can play an important role 1580by raising public and internal awareness of publications in the 1581field, fostering connections amongst researchers, and stimulating 1582serendipitous insights. In this note, I discuss the architecture of 1583one such service: the Radical Right Research Robot (RRRR), written 1584in the R programming language, which posts references and links to 1585contributions from the vast literature on radical right/far-right 1586parties and their voters. I also describe the various R packages 1587and other open source tools on which RRRR relies. This description 1588could serve as a template for similar bots in other fields. 1589Finally, I discuss the challenges resulting from Elon Musk's 1590takeover of Twitter and the subsequent decline of Science Twitter. 1591RRRR has already branched out to two alternative text-based
1592networks (Mastodon and Bluesky) and may eventually disengage from 1593Twitter. While the technical difficulties involved are relatively 1594easy to solve, fundamental issues related to platform ownership and 1595governance persist.}, 1596pdf = {https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot-research-note.pdf}, 1597data = {https://gitlab.rlp.net/arzheim/rrresrobot}, 1598doi = {10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079} 1599}</code></pre> 1600</p></div> 1601</li> 1602</ul> 1603<p>In a new research note, I discuss the architecture of one such service: the Radical Right Research Robot (<a href="https://x.com/RRResRobot">RRRR</a>). The bot was <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/twitterbot-extreme-right-bibliography/">born back in February 2018</a> during my state at the Munk School. Since then, it has posted regularly, apart from a few outages caused by the chaos at Twitter.</p> 1604<p>RRRR is written in the R programming language. It posts references and links to contributions from the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/">vast literature on radical right/far-right parties and their voters</a>. In the note, I describe the various R packages and other open source tools on which RRRR relies. This description could serve as a template for similar bots in other fields. <a href="https://gitlab.rlp.net/arzheim/rrresrobot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The bot’s codebase is available here</a>.</p> 1605<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qQ1_2MxHuMo/hqdefault.jpg" alt="YouTube Video" title="Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot 26"></a><br /> <a href="https://youtu.be/qQ1_2MxHuMo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch this video on YouTube</a>.</p> 1606<p>Finally, I discuss the challenges resulting from Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the subsequent decline of Science Twitter. RRRR has already branched out to two alternative text-based networks: you can <a href="https://fediscience.org/@RRResRobot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">follow it on Mastodon</a>, and/or <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rrresrobot.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on Bluesky</a>) and may eventually disengage from Twitter. While the technical difficulties involved with migration are relatively easy to solve, fundamental issues related to platform ownership and governance persist.</p> 1607<p>You can <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read the full research note here</a>, or <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot-research-note.pdf">download the PDF</a>.</p> 1608<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1609<!-- YARPP List --> 1610<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1611<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1612<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 1613<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 1614</ol> 1615</div> 1616]]></content> 1617 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/radical-right-research-robot#comments" thr:count="0"/> 1618 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 1619 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 1620 </entry> 1621 <entry> 1622 <author> 1623 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1624 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1625 </author> 1626 <title type="html"><![CDATA[4 German far-right links I kind of liked]]></title> 1627 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-far-right-links/" /> 1628 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=33007</id> 1629 <updated>2025-08-22T17:56:37+02:00</updated> 1630 <published>2025-08-31T17:20:10+02:00</published> 1631 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[False moderation, failed plots, restoring the axis: these guys are keeping busy.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1632<!-- YARPP List --> 1633<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1634<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">
1634Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 1635<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 1636<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1637</ol> 1638</div> 1639]]></summary> 1640 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-far-right-links/"><![CDATA[ 1641<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“Liked” is obviously doing a lot of work here, but I found these interesting nonetheless: </p> 1642 1643 1644 1645<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">1 Over the last two years or so, Germany’s premier far-right party AfD a) has become even more openly extremist and b) has been riding high and sometimes even topping the polls. Do you spot the apparent contradiction? So do the great minds at AfD HQ, who came up with the idea of “moderation” (there are simply not enough scare quotes on my keyboard). The New York Times has a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/world/europe/afd-germany-far-right.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">surprisingly good article about what is going on.</a> Should be free to read after registration. If that does not work, try this <a href="https://archive.is/20250727200157/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/world/europe/afd-germany-far-right.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">archived copy</a>.</p> 1646 1647 1648 1649<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-www-nytimes-com wp-block-embed-www-nytimes-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
1650<script src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/plugins/embed-extended/assets/js/embed.js?ver=1.4.0"></script>
1650<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/world/europe/afd-germany-far-right.html#secret=68e90eedaf9e5" title="nytimes.com" data-secret="68e90eedaf9e5" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1651</div></figure> 1652 1653 1654 1655<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">2 Did I say “more openly extremist”? Yes. Is that, just like my opinion, man? No. The federal party as well as some state chapters have been designated as right-wing extremist organisations by federal and state-level intelligence agencies. Germany being Germany, this is a highly decentralised process, and the AfD has many opportunities to fight these designations through the courts. And now they have just lost another lawsuit.</p> 1656 1657 1658 1659<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-dpa-international-com wp-block-embed-dpa-international-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
1660<script src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/plugins/embed-extended/assets/js/embed.js?ver=1.4.0"></script>
1660<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:250801-99-628362/#secret=68e90eedd024e" title="State branch of AfD in Brandenburg confirmed as far-right extremist | dpa international" data-secret="68e90eedd024e" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1661</div></figure> 1662 1663 1664 1665<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">3 The “<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/i-talked-to-la-croix-about-the-reichsburger-movement/">Citizens of the Reich</a>” occasionally feature on this blog. Intellectually, I understand why this is a separate category from right-wing extremists. Politically, they are just that. Thankfully, the authorities are taking a harder line with them these days and have now arrested the members of a cell linked to the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-washington-post-reports-on-the-reichsburger-plot/" data-type="post" data-id="32100">von Reuà group that plotted to overthrow the constitutional order</a>.</p> 1666 1667 1668 1669<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-dw-com wp-block-embed-dw-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
1670<script src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/plugins/embed-extended/assets/js/embed.js?ver=1.4.0"></script>
1670<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.dw.com/en/bavarian-police-arrest-far-right-reichsb%C3%BCrger-suspects/a-73554963#secret=68e90eee30f29" title="Bavarian police arrest far-right Reichsbürger suspects â DW â 08/07/2025" data-secret="68e90eee30f29" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1671</div></figure> 1672 1673 1674 1675<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">4 Let’s end this with a heart-warming picture: German and Japanese nativists supporting each other. Just like the old days.</p> 1676 1677 1678 1679<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-asahi-shimbun wp-block-embed-the-asahi-shimbun"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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1680<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15951473#secret=68e90eefb0d29" title="Sanseito leader meets in Tokyo with co-head of Germanyâs AfD | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis" data-secret="68e90eefb0d29" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1681</div></figure> 1682<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1683<!-- YARPP List --> 1684<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1685<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 1686<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 1687<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1688</ol> 1689</div> 1690]]></content> 1691 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-far-right-links/#comments" thr:count="5"/> 1692 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="5"/> 1693 <thr:total>5</thr:total> 1694 </entry> 1695 <entry> 1696 <author> 1697 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1698 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1699 </author> 1700 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why are there so many fake news site in the world?]]></title> 1701 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-are-there-so-many-fake-news-site-in-the-world/" /> 1702 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32993</id> 1703 <updated>2025-08-22T17:19:44+02:00</updated> 1704 <published>2025-08-22T14:52:40+02:00</published> 1705 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Data and Methods" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="social media" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[More than a dozen scraper sites stole a Guardian article and linked it to my site. Why? I have no idea.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1706<!-- YARPP List --> 1707<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1708<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 1709<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 1710<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1711</ol> 1712</div> 1713]]></summary> 1714 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-are-there-so-many-fake-news-site-in-the-world/"><![CDATA[ 1715<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Back in May, Cas Mudde wrote a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/21/young-men-women-far-right-online-politics-centre-left" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">
1715characteristically good op-ed for the Guardian,</a> which asked a very reasonable question: why are politicians, the media and the general public so obsessed with young men’s (alleged) shift to the radical right whilst ignoring young women’s much clearer shift to the (radical) left? In this article, Cas very kindly pointed to an <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/electoral-sociology-who-votes-for-the-extreme-right-and-when/" data-type="post" data-id="12383">old chapter of mine on the sociology of radical right voters</a>. </p> 1716 1717 1718 1719<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="313" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/visitors-radical-right-1200x313.png" alt="Why are there so many fake news site in the world? 24" class="wp-image-32995" title="Why are there so many fake news site in the world? 27" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/visitors-radical-right-1200x313.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/visitors-radical-right-300x78.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/visitors-radical-right-768x200.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/visitors-radical-right.png 1208w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">What happens in May, stays in May</figcaption></figure> 1720 1721 1722 1723<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Guardian’s online team linked this reference to the free pre-print that is still available here on this website, which in turn sent an absolutely astounding (by my standards) number of visitors this way.</p> 1724 1725 1726 1727<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nice, but I only learned about this when I received a much smaller, but still largish number of pingbacks, which popped up in my moderation queue. Pingbacks are automated comments created when one blogging site links to another. In the Internet’s happier days, they were common. Now, they are a rarity, because they were abused for generating link/comment spam. I still have them enabled (I’m nostalgic like that), but before May, I had not seen one of them in years.</p> 1728 1729 1730 1731<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="759" height="870" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-2.png" alt="Why are there so many fake news site in the world? 25" class="wp-image-32997" title="Why are there so many fake news site in the world? 28" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-2.png 759w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-2-262x300.png 262w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px" /></figure> 1732 1733 1734 1735<p class="wp-block-paragraph">These pingbacks came from websites around the globe, which had published articles that were (often translated and sometimes back-translated) verbatim copies of Cas Mudde’s piece in the Guardian that even included the link to my site, which explains the pingbacks. </p> 1736 1737 1738 1739<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On closer inspection, <em>everything</em> on these sites is scraped from elsewhere. Put differently, these are (at least superficially) not sites that spread fake news, but fake news sites. The fact that this happened in parallel and just hours (sometimes minutes) after the original Guardian article went online suggests that these are cheap, automated o
1739perations.</p> 1740 1741 1742 1743<p class="wp-block-paragraph">To make this even more confusing, the article that they stole from the Guardian disappeared rather quickly in most cases. The links they tried to place on my site as comment spam lead to 404s now. </p> 1744 1745 1746 1747<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="822" height="616" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-3.png" alt="Why are there so many fake news site in the world? 26" class="wp-image-32998" title="Why are there so many fake news site in the world? 29" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-3.png 822w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-3-300x225.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/fake-news-3-768x576.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px" /></figure> 1748 1749 1750 1751<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So what is the point of all this? Is this low-key ad-fraud? Is there Chinese or Russian disinformation lurking within all the stolen content? Are they trying to establish these “sites” as bases for future disinformation operations?</p> 1752 1753 1754 1755<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Everything is possible on the Internet, but I don’t think that these sites get any visitors at all. So, once more: <strong><em>What is the point? </em></strong>I have no idea. Do you?</p> 1756<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1757<!-- YARPP List --> 1758<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1759<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 1760<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 1761<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1762</ol> 1763</div> 1764]]></content> 1765 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/why-are-there-so-many-fake-news-site-in-the-world/#comments" thr:count="14"/> 1766 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="14"/> 1767 <thr:total>14</thr:total> 1768 </entry> 1769 <entry> 1770 <author> 1771 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1772 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1773 </author> 1774 <title type="html"><![CDATA[There is no ‘hard right’, AI slop is actually good but AI is terrible, and why democracies need enemies: 4 links I liked]]></title> 1775 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hard-right-ai-democracies-enemies/" /> 1776 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32971</id> 1777 <updated>2025-07-28T19:28:54+02:00</updated> 1778 <published>2025-07-31T19:27:39+02:00</published> 1779 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="ChatGPT" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="democracy" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Definitions! The Plagiarism Machine (twice!)!! Democracy and its enemies!!!<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1780<!-- YARPP List --> 1781<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1782<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 1783<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1784<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 1785</ol> 1786</div> 1787]]></summary> 1788 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hard-right-ai-democracies-enemies/"><![CDATA[ 1789<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">1 Scientists can spend ages quibbling over terminology. Which is actually a good thing, because words have meanings, which <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/conceptual-confusion-european-radical-right-studies/" data-type="paper" data-id="28056">should be as clear as possible (most of the time)</a>. Which is why I wholeheartedly agree with Tim Bale: We must stop this “hard right” nonsense in its tracks, lest we contribute to the further normalisation of the far right.</p> 1790 1791 1792 1793<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-loop wp-block-embed-the-loop"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 1794<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="2MpxLpYLE8"><a href="https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-we-need-to-halt-hard-right-in-its-tracks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why we need to halt âhard rightâ in its tracks</a></blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="“Why we need to halt âhard rightâ in its tracks” — The Loop" src="https://theloop.ecpr.eu/why-we-need-to-halt-hard-right-in-its-tracks/embed/#?secret=xcgH7DzqCl#?secret=2MpxLpYLE8" data-secret="2MpxLpYLE8" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> 1795</div></figure> 1796 1797 1798 1799<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">2 So-called (generative) AI is making most things worse, and is about to make the Internet completely useless. Here is a radical idea: perhaps, just perhaps, this could be a good thing? Because, after more than two decades of this nonsense, we might be persuaded to read books and talk to actual people? It’
1799s … a thought, and at any rate a pleasant read (hopefully, I have copied the gift link)</p> 1800 1801 1802 1803<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-atlantic wp-block-embed-the-atlantic"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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1804<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/ai-slop-internet-addiction/683619/?gift=nf-Pxc378rXMuuYgQybNOTHof_wjh7Y26NyPI5N_8IM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share#secret=68e90ef2bfe61" title="AI Slop Might Finally Cure Our Internet Addiction" data-secret="68e90ef2bfe61" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1805</div></figure> 1806 1807 1808 1809<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">3 More on so-called AI: Many people have noticed that the <a href="https://bsky.app/hashtag/farright" target="_blank" rel="noopener">far right</a> loves the stereotypical aesthetics of generative <a href="https://bsky.app/hashtag/AI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI</a>. While this is true (and remarkable), this is an actual empirical case study, which shows how so-called AI was used to push racist conspiracy propaganda on social media in the context of the riots that blighted England in 2024.</p> 1810 1811 1812 1813<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-gnet wp-block-embed-gnet"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 1814<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="tjRVmOwNYP"><a href="https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/16/the-weaponisation-of-ai-visual-storytelling-of-the-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-amid-the-southport-riots/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Weaponisation of AI: Visual storytelling of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Amid the Southport Riots</a></blockquote><iframe loading="lazy" class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" title="“The Weaponisation of AI: Visual storytelling of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Amid the Southport Riots” — GNET" src="https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/16/the-weaponisation-of-ai-visual-storytelling-of-the-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-amid-the-southport-riots/embed/#?secret=jyd7nxxDue#?secret=tjRVmOwNYP" data-secret="tjRVmOwNYP" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> 1815</div></figure> 1816 1817 1818 1819<p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">4 This article argues that democracies need to be clear about their enemies to survive and thrive. All good points, but what’s even worse: many adversaries operate from the inside, and many citizens struggle to understand not only who the enemies are, but also what democracy stands for.</p> 1820 1821 1822 1823<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-gmfus wp-block-embed-gmfus"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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1824<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.gmfus.org/news/it-or-not-democratic-societies-need-clearly-defined-adversaries#secret=68e90ef3ace53" title="Like It or Not, Democratic Societies Need Clearly Defined Adversaries" data-secret="68e90ef3ace53" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 1825</div></figure> 1826<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1827<!-- YARPP List --> 1828<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1829<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 1830<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1831<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 1832</ol> 1833</div> 1834]]></content> 1835 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/hard-right-ai-democracies-enemies/#comments" thr:count="5"/> 1836 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="5"/> 1837 <thr:total>5</thr:total> 1838 </entry> 1839 <entry> 1840 <author> 1841 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1842 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1843 </author> 1844 <title type="html"><![CDATA[An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy]]></title> 1845 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/an-enduring-anti-fascist-legacy-in-italy/" /> 1846 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32955</id> 1847 <updated>2025-07-30T13:42:18+02:00</updated> 1848 <published>2025-07-26T20:09:52+02:00</published> 1849 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="italy" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="podcast" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am normally rather sceptical of historical explanations for far-right mobilisation and counter-mobilisation, but this podcast episode from The Conversation is very nuanced and quite convincing: 24 minutes of your time well spent. Â Â <div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1850<!-- YARPP List --> 1851<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1852<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/podcast-wehrhafte-demokratie/" rel="bookmark" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie">Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie</a></li> 1853<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1854<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1855</ol> 1856</div> 1857]]></summary> 1858 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/an-enduring-anti-fascist-legacy-in-italy/"><![CDATA[<p>I am normally rather <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379424000477?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sceptical of historical explanations for far-right mobilisation and counter-mobilisation</a>, but this podcast episode from <em>The Conversation</em> is very nuanced and quite convincing: 24 minutes of your time well spent.</p> 1859<p>Â </p> 1860<p>Â </p> 1861 1862 1863<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> 1864<audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-32955-1" preload="none" style="width: 100%;" controls="controls"><source type="audio/mpeg" src="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86c1fdc7-dc5c-44b5-a86c-72eed7fb3190.mp3?_=1" /><a href="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86c1fdc7-dc5c-44b5-a86c-72eed7fb3190.mp3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86c1fdc7-dc5c-44b5-a86c-72eed7fb3190.mp3</a></audio> 1865</div></figure> 1866 1867<section class="h-cite response u-repost-of "> 1868<header> 1869<a href="https://podcastaddict.com/the-conversation-weekly/episode/202392198" class="p-name u-url">An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy</a><em> (<span class="p-publication">
1869podcastaddict.com</span>)</em></header> 1870<blockquote class="e-summary"> </blockquote></section> 1871 1872 1873<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1874<!-- YARPP List --> 1875<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1876<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/podcast-wehrhafte-demokratie/" rel="bookmark" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie">Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie</a></li> 1877<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 1878<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 1879</ol> 1880</div> 1881]]></content> 1882 <link href="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86c1fdc7-dc5c-44b5-a86c-72eed7fb3190.mp3" rel="enclosure" length="0" type="" /> 1883 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/an-enduring-anti-fascist-legacy-in-italy/#comments" thr:count="6"/> 1884 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="6"/> 1885 <thr:total>6</thr:total> 1886 </entry> 1887 <entry> 1888 <author> 1889 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 1890 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 1891 </author> 1892 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie]]></title> 1893 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/podcast-wehrhafte-demokratie/" /> 1894 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32925</id> 1895 <updated>2025-07-15T16:00:44+02:00</updated> 1896 <published>2025-07-22T19:00:00+02:00</published> 1897 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="podcast" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mit Lawrence Meinig habe ich für den Forschungspodcast der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität über wehrhafte Demokratie, Rechtsextremismus, Islamismus und die Polizei gesprochen. Die Episode kann man sich direkt hier anhören oder unten im Transkript nachlesen Einleitung Lawrence Meinig Demokratie bedeutet Vielfalt, Offenheit und auch Meinungsverschiedenheit. Doch was passiert, wenn aus Kritik an der Demokratie ein Angriff auf ... <a title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/podcast-wehrhafte-demokratie/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 1898<!-- YARPP List --> 1899<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 1900<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 1901<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 1902<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 1903</ol> 1904</div> 1905]]></summary> 1906 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/podcast-wehrhafte-demokratie/"><![CDATA[ 1907<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mit Lawrence Meinig habe ich für den <a href="https://www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-mainz-der-gutenberg-talk_alle-folgen/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Forschungspodcast der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität</a> über <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/wie-kann-demokratie-wehrhaft-sein/" data-type="post" data-id="32622">wehrhafte Demokratie</a>, <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/forschung-rechtsextremismus-rechtspopulismus/" data-type="page" data-id="11172">Rechtsextremismus</a>, Islamismus und die Polizei gesprochen. Die Episode kann man sich direkt hier anhören oder unten im Transkript nachlesen</p> 1908 1909 1910 1911<figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://video.uni-mainz.de/Panopto/Podcast/StreamInBrowser/49ec5c0c-03b2-4b10-989c-b308009438f7.mp4?mediaTargetType=audioPodcast"></audio></figure> 1912 1913 1914 1915<div class="wp-block-rank-math-toc-block" id="rank-math-toc"><h2>Table of Contents</h2><nav><ul><li><a href="#einleitung">Einleitung</a></li><li><a href="#rechtsextremismus-rechtsradikalismus-rechtspopulismus">Rechtsextremismus, Rechtsradikalismus, Rechtspopulismus</a></li><li>
1915<a href="#regionale-unterschiede">Regionale Unterschiede</a></li><li><a href="#polizeiforschung">Polizeiforschung</a></li><li><a href="#andere-gefahren-fur-die-demokratie-linksextremismus-islamismus-reichsburgerbewegung">Andere Gefahren für die Demokratie: Linksextremismus, Islamismus, Reichsbürgerbewegung</a></li></ul></nav></div> 1916 1917 1918 1919<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="einleitung">Einleitung</h2> 1920 1921 1922 1923<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lawrence Meinig</strong> Demokratie bedeutet Vielfalt, Offenheit und auch Meinungsverschiedenheit. Doch was passiert, wenn aus Kritik an der Demokratie ein Angriff auf ihre Grundwerte wird? Wenn rechtspopulistische Parolen die politische Debatte verschieben und rechtsextreme Netzwerke gezielt Vertrauen in Institutionen untergraben?</p> 1924 1925 1926 1927<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In dieser Folge fragen wir uns, wie wehrhaft ist unsere Demokratie wirklich? Und was muss sie tun oder lassen, sich gegen diejenigen zu schützen, die sie von innen aushöhlen wollen? Wir sprechen über die feinen Linien zwischen Meinung und Menschenfeindlichkeit, über Extremismus, Populismus, Islamismus und darüber, warum Demokratie nicht nur tolerant, sondern manchmal auch entschlossen sein muss. Insbesondere, wenn Grundrechte oder unsere Verfassung missachtet werden.</p> 1928 1929 1930 1931<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Mein Gast in dieser Folge ist Professor Kai Arzheimer. Er ist Professor für deutsche Innenpolitik und politische Soziologie am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der JGU. In seiner Forschung beschäftigt er sich vor allem mit Rechtsextremismus und Rechtspopulismus in Deutschland und Westeuropa, Wahl- und Parteienforschung sowie der sogenannten Politikverdrossenheit.</p> 1932 1933 1934 1935<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Professor Arzheimer, wir möchten heute anhand Ihrer Forschung herausfinden, wie demokratische Werte geschwächt werden und wie unsere Demokratie darauf reagieren kann oder auch sollte. Würden Sie sagen, dass Demokratie an sich bereits anfällig für solche Angriffe ist, weil ihre Werte so vielseitig sind?</p> 1936 1937 1938 1939<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="1189" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz-1200x1189.jpg" alt="Alte Universität Mainz" class="wp-image-32932" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 30" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz-1200x1189.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz-300x297.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz-768x761.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz-120x120.jpg 120w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/uni-mainz.jpg 1211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Der Ort des Interviews: Alte Universität Mainz</figcaption></figure> 1940 1941 1942 1943<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Kai Arzheimer</strong> Ja, das ist eine interessante Frage.</p> 1944 1945 1946 1947<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also Demokratien sind von ihrem Design her, von ihrem Selbstanspruch her natürlich offene Systeme, anders als Autokratien, also Diktaturen, absolute Monarchien. Dort braucht man keine pluralistische Gesellschaft.</p> 1948 1949 1950 1951<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In der Demokratie gehört das dazu und das führt natürlich in ein Spannungsfeld hinein, wo eben auch antidemokratische Akteure diese Möglichkeiten und diese Bühne nutzen können und es auch undemokratisch wäre, von vornherein jetzt alle MeinungsäuÃerungen, die man irgendwie problematisch findet, zu unterdrücken.</p> 1952 1953 1954 1955<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Also würden Sie auf jeden Fall bejahen.</p> 1956 1957 1958 1959<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Auf der einen Seite ist sie anfälliger als System, auf der anderen Seite hofft man natürlich, dass die demokratischen Werte bei den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern so fest verankert sind, dass man damit auch umgehen kann.
1959</p> 1960 1961 1962 1963<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Ein gemeinsames Schaffen von Demokratie.</p> 1964 1965 1966 1967<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Genau, so ist das ja.</p> 1968 1969 1970 1971<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="rechtsextremismus-rechtsradikalismus-rechtspopulismus">Rechtsextremismus, Rechtsradikalismus, Rechtspopulismus</h2> 1972 1973 1974 1975<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Sie forschen auch zu Einflüssen, die rechtsextreme und populistische Politik begünstigen. Können Sie uns die wichtigsten dieser Einflüsse aufzählen?</p> 1976 1977 1978 1979<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Ich glaube, ganz am Anfang steht etwas, worüber man gar nicht groà nachdenkt, nämlich das Nachlassen von traditionellen Bindungen an groÃe gesellschaftliche Organisationen wie die Gewerkschaften und die Kirchen und die Parteien, die mit diesen Organisationen über Jahrzehnte zusammengearbeitet haben, also sozialdemokratische, christdemokratische, konservative Parteien.</p> 1980 1981 1982 1983<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dadurch, dass der Einfluss dieser Organisationen in der Gesellschaft schwindet, die Mitgliedszahlen sinken, ist es so, dass das Feld einfach gröÃer wird, in das neue Akteure hineingehen können und manche diese Akteure sind eben, wie Sie es schon angeteasert haben, rechtsradikal, rechtsextrem, rechtspopulistisch, was genau das bedeutet, ist dann nochmal eine andere Geschichte.</p> 1984 1985 1986 1987<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also es gibt einfach strukturell jetzt mehr Möglichkeiten für neue Akteure. Und auf der anderen Seite ist es so, dass wir erheblichen sozialen und politischen Wandel haben in allen europäischen Gesellschaften. Wir haben sehr, sehr groÃe Zuwanderungsbewegungen gehabt in den letzten 40, 50 Jahren. Wir haben aber auch mehr Rechte bekommen für früher marginalisierte Gruppen, auÃer den Zugewanderten. Dazu gehören zum Beispiel Homosexuelle, aber auch Menschen, die in allen anderen Dimensionen, die man sich so vorstellen kann, vielleicht von der Norm abweichen.</p> 1988 1989 1990 1991<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="685" height="987" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hocke.jpg" alt="Bernd Höcke" class="wp-image-29235" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 31" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hocke.jpg 685w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hocke-208x300.jpg 208w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 685px) 100v
1991w, 685px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Bernd Höcke. Based on work by Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure> 1992 1993 1994 1995<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ganz viel von dieser Mobilisierung am rechten Rand, die wir jetzt sehen, kann man verstehen als eine Gegenbewegung gegen diesen gesellschaftlichen Wandel, gegen offene Grenzen, teilweise auch gegen wirtschaftliche Globalisierung vielleicht. Das zusammengenommen erklärt, warum sich eigentlich alle Demokratien in Europa, aber auch in Nordamerika jetzt mit diesen Akteuren auseinandersetzen müssen.</p> 1996 1997 1998 1999<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Würden Sie sagen, dass die Welt einfach komplexer geworden ist politisch?</p> 2000 2001 2002 2003<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Ja, also die Welt ist mit Sicherheit komplexer, als sie in der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit in den 50er und 60er Jahren war. Wir sehen eigentlich seit Ende der 60er Jahre die sogenannten neuen sozialen Bewegungen, also Friedensbewegungen, Umweltbewegungen, aber auch homosexuellen Bewegungen zum Beispiel, die angefangen haben, unsere Gesellschaften zu verändern, was sich dann niedergeschlagen hat im Parteien-System durch den Aufstieg von Grünen oder manchmal nennt man die auch linkslibertären Parteien in ganz vielen Ländern Europas.</p> 2004 2005 2006 2007<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und mit einer kleinen Zeitversetzung oder -verschiebung seit den 80er, 90er Jahren dann eben diese neuen rechten Parteien, die man verstehen kann, so als nochmal eine Gegenbewegung zu dem, was in den Dekaden vorher passiert ist.</p> 2008 2009 2010 2011<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Ich habe das oft so empfunden, dass gerne gerade in den Medien dann auch Bezug zur bisherigen Geschichte genommen wird, dass dazu bisherigen politischen Ereignissen Bezug genommen wird. Aber wenn Sie das jetzt so schildern, ist das vielleicht gar nicht so leicht, das mit vergangener Geschichte zu vergleichen, weil wir jetzt eine andere und wie Sie sagen, komplexere Situation haben.</p> 2012 2013 2014 2015<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Auch das ist eine interessante Frage, ob man es mit der vergangenen Geschichte, der Nachkriegsgeschichte vergleichen kann. Viele von diesen Parteien sind tatsächlich relativ neu. Ich sagte eben schon, die tauchen auf, die alle ersten so in den 80er, 90er Jahren.</p> 2016 2017 2018 2019<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und viele von denen grenzen sich eben ab vom alten Rechtsextremismus, zumindest was Sprache, was Symbole angeht, auch was das Personal angeht. Beispiele, die mir da einfallen, die PVV in den Niederlanden, also die Freiheitspartei, ist gegründet worden, wenn ich es richtig im Kopf habe, Anfang der 2000er Jahre.</p> 2020 2021 2022 2023<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das ist wirklich eine neue Partei und Geert Wilders, der Parteiführer, hat von Anfang an groÃen Wert darauf gelegt, dass er kein Antisemit ist, was eben ganz typisch gewesen wäre so für die alten RechtsauÃenparteien, legt groÃen Wert auf seine guten Beziehungen zu Israel. Aber auf der anderen Seite gibt es gerade im deutschen Sprachraum natürlich immer die Frage, wie man sich verhält zum Nationalsozialismus, zum klassischen Rechtsextremismus.</p> 2024 2025 2026 2027<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Ãsterreich finden solche Akteure das schwierig, um es höflich auszudrücken, sich klar abzugrenzen und auch den Zustrom von klassischen Rechtsextremisten in diese Parteien einigermaÃen zu regulieren.</p> 2028 2029 2030 2031<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="regionale-unterschiede">Regionale Unterschiede</h2> 2032 2033 2034 2035<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Wir gehen in ein anderes Forschungsfeld, in dem Sie schon gearbeitet haben. Sie haben <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/place-does-matter-for-populist-radical-right-sentiment-but-how-evidence-from-germany/7C639AAC5F6B1BC2F6324F7D57136827" target="_blank" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/place-does-matter-for-populist-radical-right-sentiment-but-how-evidence-from-germany/7C639AAC5F6B1BC2F6324F7D57136827" rel="noreferrer noopener">geografische Cluster identifiziert, an denen Rechtsextreme und populistische Politik besonders erfolgreich ist.</a> Also Orte, wo besonders viel rechts gewählt wird. Welchen Einfluss kann denn der Wohnort auf das Wahlverhalten haben?</p> 2036 2037 2038 2039<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Also erstmal muss man sagen, der Einfluss ist relativ gering. Es ist nicht so, dass man sagen kann, diese Region ist komplett dominiert von der einen oder anderen politischen Richtung, sondern am Ende des Tages sind es natürlich individuelle Einstellungen und individuelle Wahlentscheidungen. Aber es gibt durchaus regionale Unterschiede.</p> 2040 2041 2042 2043<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wir haben da auch alle bestimmte Bilder im Kopf und wir sehen ja auch bei jeder Wahl dann diese Landkarten, wo man sehen kann, da ist besonders viel Union gewählt worden, da ist besonders viel AfD gewählt worden, da ist vielleicht noch eine SPD Hochburg.</p> 2044 2045 2046 2047<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
2047Wenn man verstehen möchte, warum das so ist, ist vielleicht der wichtigste Effekt etwas, woran man nicht unbedingt denkt, nämlich dass sich bestimmte Personengruppen ungleichmäÃig verteilen in Deutschland. Das heiÃt, wir wissen, dass RechtsauÃenparteien stärker von Männern gewählt werden als von Frauen, dass sie vor allen Dingen von Personen, sagen wir mal, aus der unteren Mittelschicht und der Arbeiterschicht gewählt werden, dass sie generell häufiger gewählt werden von Personen mit niedrigen oder mittleren Bildungsabschlüssen und die verteilen sich eben nicht gleichmäÃig über Deutschland, sondern es hat gerade nach der Wiedervereinigung groÃe Wanderungsbewegungen gegeben aus dem ländlichen Raum in die Städte und vom Osten nach Westen. Und ein gröÃerer Teil dieser geografischen Muster, die wir sehen auf der Karte und die wir dann auch gefunden haben auf unseren Einstellungskarten, kann man einfach dadurch erklären, dass bestimmte Personen mit bestimmten sozio-demografischen Eigenschaften eher in einer Region wohnen als in der anderen.</p> 2048 2049 2050 2051<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1001" height="503" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/right-wing-germany.jpg" alt="The spatial distribution of far-right attitudes in Germany. Source: Arzheimer/Bernemann 2024 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/place-does-matter-for-populist-radical-right-sentiment-but-how-evidence-from-germany/7C639AAC5F6B1BC2F6324F7D57136827" class="wp-image-32933" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 32" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/right-wing-germany.jpg 1001w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/right-wing-germany-300x151.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/right-wing-germany-768x386.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The spatial distribution of far-right attitudes in Germany. Source: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/place-does-matter-for-populist-radical-right-sentiment-but-how-evidence-from-germany/7C639AAC5F6B1BC2F6324F7D57136827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arzheimer/Bernemann 2024</a></figcaption></figure> 2052 2053 2054 2055<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Der zweite wichtige Faktor ist, das, was wir in dem Artikel, auf den Sie ansprechen, Place Resentment genannt haben. Also ich weià gar nicht, ob man das gut übersetzen kann. Es ist eine Emotion, die verbunden ist mit dem eigenen Wohnort und dem Gefühl, dass man da irgendwie abgehängt worden ist, dass die eigene Region nicht das an Ressourcen und vor allen Dingen auch an soziale Anerkennung bekommt, was ihr eigentlich zusteht.</p> 2056 2057 2058 2059<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und auch dieses Place Resentment hängt stark mit individuellen Eigenschaften zusammen, aber natürlich auch damit, dass manche Regionen eben einfach eher am Rand sind. Also teilweise im ganz wirklichen Sinne, wenn Sie jetzt auf Ostdeutschland schauen, das Erzgebirge oder auch Brandenburg, die Grenze zu Polen, das ist buchstäblich der Rand von Deutschland.</p> 2060 2061 2062 2063<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und teilweise ist da eben dann auch das politische Zentrum, aber auch die ganze Infrastruktur weiter weg, als wenn Sie jetzt auf die groÃen Städte schauen. Also dieses Places Resentment, das spielt da auch noch eine Rolle.</p> 2064 2065 2066 2067<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und was eine relativ geringe Rolle spielt, erstaunlicherweise, sind dann so objektive Deprivationsindikatoren, die haben wir uns auch angeschaut. Die Versorgung zum Beispiel mit öffentlicher Infrastruktur, aber auch so was ganz Handfestes wie die Lebenserwartung. Das hat kleine Effekte auf diese Einstellung, aber es sind eben nur sehr kleine Effekte, weil auch die die Unterschiede, die man irgendwie objektivieren kann in Deutschland, nicht wahnsinnig groà sind, verglichen mit anderen europäischen Ländern.</p> 2068 2069 2070 2071<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wir haben sehr starke Systeme, die die Gleichwertigkeit von Lebensverhältnissen in Deutschland herstellen sollen. Und das funktioniert im GroÃen und Ganzen auch ziemlich gut. Aber die gefühlte Benachteiligung, das ist eigentlich der entscheidende Faktor.</p> 2072 2073 2074 2075<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="polizeiforschung">Polizeiforschung</h2> 2076 2077 2078 2079<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Wir gehen noch mal weiter. Ihr Feld an Forschung ist sehr breit. Sie sind zusätzlich auÃerdem noch Teil des <a href="https://www.uni-trier.de/forschung/polizeistudie-rlp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Konsortiums der Polizeistudie Insider in Rheinland-Pfalz.</a> Dort untersuchen Sie, ob und wie die Polizei demokratische Werte, Prozesse und Institutionen unter
2079stützt. Welche Ergebnisse hatten Sie bisher in dieser Forschung?</p> 2080 2081 2082 2083<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Unser Hauptergebnis ist tatsächlich, dass die rheinland-pfälzische Polizei schon resilient ist auf der Ebene der Prozesse. Aber wir haben uns natürlich primär Werte angeschaut. Also ich habe das zusammen gemacht mit Kollegen aus der Arbeitspsychologie in Trier und aus der Allgemeinen Soziologie in Trier. Und dann gab es so eine Arbeitsteilung.</p> 2084 2085 2086 2087<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und wir hier in Mainz haben vor allen Dingen auf demokratische Einstellungen geschaut und festgestellt, dass liberale demokratische Einstellungen sehr fest verankert sind in der rheinland-pfälzischen Polizei. Wir haben auch festgestellt, dass es eine sehr starke Ablehnung gibt von klassisch antisemitisch rechtsextremen Aussagen. Das fand man natürlich auch sehr positiv dieses Ergebnis.</p> 2088 2089 2090 2091<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wir haben allerdings auch gesehen, dass es erkennbare Vorbehalte gibt bei vielen Polizeiangehörigen gegenüber Muslimen und Zugewanderten. Und das ist was, wo wir der Polizeiführung und dem Innenminister auch gesagt haben, das ist jetzt so eine Art Hausaufgabe oder eine Empfehlung, würde ich besser sagen, die wir euch mitgeben, dass ihr euch das genauer anschaut und überlegt, mit welchen MaÃnahmen man diese Spannung, die es dort gibt, reduzieren kann.</p> 2092 2093 2094 2095<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Neben Rheinland-Pfalz wurde <a href="https://polizeistudie.de/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2024 auch eine Polizeistudie für ganz Deutschland</a> veröffentlicht, an der alle Bundesländer teilgenommen haben. Hier wurden bundesweit Motivationen, Einstellungen und Gewalterfahrungen im Alltag von Polizeivollzugsbeamtinnen und -beamten untersucht. Bei Befragungen zu Einstellungen zu Demokratie und politischen Systemen haben meist über 75 Prozent der Befragten diese positiv bewertet. Darüber hinaus verortet sich ein GroÃteil selbst in der politischen Mitte. Mit jeweils unter 3 Prozent positionierte sich ein sehr geringer Anteil der Befragten im extrem rechten oder extrem linken politischen Lager.</p> 2096 2097 2098 2099<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Demokratieskeptische und politisch extreme Einstellungen sind demnach nur schwach ausgeprägt, müssen laut der Studie aber genau beobachtet werden. 30 Prozent der Teilnehmenden haben innerhalb eines Jahres rassistische Aussagen von KollegInnen erlebt. Bei sexistischen Aussagen lag dieser Anteil noch höher. Hier waren es 40 Prozent. Eine ambivalente oder ablehnende Haltung gegenüber asylsuchenden Personen äuÃerten über 70 Prozent der Befragten.</p> 2100 2101 2102 2103<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wie kann ich mir das als AuÃenstehender vorstellen, wie Sie da dieser Forschung vorgegangen sind, also mit welchen Daten haben Sie da gearbeitet?</p> 2104 2105 2106 2107<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Also für das politikwissenschaftliche Teilprojekt haben wir eine groÃe standardisierte computergestützte Befragung gemacht.</p> 2108 2109 2110 2111<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das heiÃt, wir haben ganz klassisch einen Fragebogen programmiert, in dem viele Instrumente drin waren, die wir auch in allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfragen einsetzen, weil es für uns eben auch interessant war, Polizeiangehörige und Bevölkerung zu vergleichen. Denn wir wollten sicher sein, dass die Polizeiangehörigen auch ihre Meinung äuÃern können, ohne irgendwie negative Konsequenzen fürchten zu müssen. Das heiÃt, wir brauchten eine glaubwürdige Anonymitätszusage.</p> 2112 2113 2114 2115<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Da sind wir 2022 zum ersten Mal ins Feld gegangen und haben es geschafft in Zusammenarbeit mit der Polizeiführung, aber auch mit den Polizeigewerkschaften, dass tatsächlich ungefähr die Hälfte der Polizeiangehörigen sich beteiligt hat. Und das ist eine wahnsinnig hohe Zahl.</p> 2116 2117 2118 2119<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Es gab ja kurz danach die bundesweite Polizeistudie. Die waren bei unter 10 Prozent Teilnehmerquote.</p> 2120 2121 2122 2123<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="361" height="332" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/police.png" alt="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 27" class="wp-image-13284" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 33" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/police.png 361w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/police-300x275.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 361px) 100v
2123w, 361px" /></figure> 2124 2125 2126 2127<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Ich denke jetzt gleich daran, wenn das eine Selbstauskunft ist, natürlich auch die Gefahr, dass Menschen da sich nicht ganz offen äuÃern.</p> 2128 2129 2130 2131<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Haben Sie da vielleicht mit Sachen gearbeitet, die tatsächlich passiert sind, sich vielleicht Fälle angesehen, wo der Polizei vorgeworfen wird, dass sie falsch vorgegangen ist?</p> 2132 2133 2134 2135<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Das ist eine völlig berechtigte Frage. Ich würde es gerne in zwei Teilen beantworten.</p> 2136 2137 2138 2139<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also erstens, Sie haben völlig recht, es haben nicht alle teilgenommen. Man kann sich natürlich vorstellen, dass Leute, die denken, meine Ansichten sind vielleicht nicht populär oder nicht erwünscht von vornherein, sich nicht beteiligt haben. Und man kann sich auch vorstellen, dass in manchen Fällen vielleicht nicht ganz ehrlich geantwortet wurde, weil auch Polizeiangehörige natürlich wissen, es war ja zu Zeiten von George Floyd und solchen Ereignissen, die Polizei steht unter einer gewissen gesellschaftlichen Beobachtung. Das ist das eine.</p> 2140 2141 2142 2143<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das andere ist aber, dass wir anders als viele Bevölkerungsumfragen eben computergestützt befragt haben mit dieser sehr starken Anonymität Zusage. Und wir wissen schon, dass Leute ehrlicher antworten, wenn sie einfach vor einem Bildschirm sitzen, als wenn ihnen eine Interviewerin oder ein Interviewer gegenüber sitzt.</p> 2144 2145 2146 2147<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das Zweite ist. Unser Teilprojekt war also diese standardisierte, quantitative Befragung, aber wir hatten ja noch andere Teilprojekte und in diesen Teilprojekten sind die Kolleginnen und Kollegen stärker qualitativ vorgegangen und vor allen Dingen der Kollege Martin Endress und seine Mitarbeiterin aus der Allgemeinen Soziologie sind bei unglaublich vielen Einsätzen tatsächlich mitgefahren.</p> 2148 2149 2150 2151<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Natürlich ist es so, dass das erst einmal Externe sind, aber die Forschungspraxis zeigt eigentlich, dass das nach einer halben Stunde, einer dreiviertel Stunde vergessen ist, dass die beiden, die hinten mit im Streifenwagen sitzen, eigentlich keine Uniform tragen, nicht direkt zur Polizei gehören.</p> 2152 2153 2154 2155<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und die waren auch bei groÃen Einsatzlagen dabei, also bei FuÃballspielen, aber auch bei Nachtstreifen an ganz vielen verschiedenen Orten in Rheinland-Pfalz und haben versucht, die Mentalität zu verstehen, die in der Polizei vorherrscht. Und das ist, glaube ich, eine sehr gute Ergänzung zu den Daten, die wir erhoben haben. Weitergehend wollte ich jetzt noch darauf zu sprechen kommen, es gibt ja mehrere Strömungen, die demokratische Werte untergraben können.</p> 2156 2157 2158 2159<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="andere-gefahren-fur-die-demokratie-linksextremismus-islamismus-reichsburgerbewegung">Andere Gefahren für die Demokratie: Linksextremismus, Islamismus, Reichsbürgerbewegung</h2> 2160 2161 2162 2163<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Neben Ihrem Forschungsschwerpunkt, dem Rechtsextremismus und Populismus, gibt es ja auch Linksextremismus, es gibt Islamismus oder auch die Reichsbürgerbewegung. Was hebt gerade den Rechtsextremismus so stark hervor?</p> 2164 2165 2166 2167<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong>
2167 Der Rechtsextremismus oder auch Rechtsradikalismus, also ich glaube, man muss wirklich genau hinschauen.</p> 2168 2169 2170 2171<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Extremismus würde man eher sagen, ist offen antidemokratisch, möchte Demokratie ersetzen durch ein nicht-demokratisches System und gibt das auch zu. Rechtsradikalismus richtet sich gegen Teilelemente der liberalen Demokratie, also vor allen Dingen Minderheitenschutz, aber auch alles, was so unter Deliberation gefasst wird, Gerichte, Parlamente und so. Das ist schlimm genug.</p> 2172 2173 2174 2175<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Aber der Rechtsextremismus und der Rechtsradikalismus generieren einfach mehr Unterstützung als andere Formen politischen Denkens, die sich gegen die Demokratie richten in unserer Gesellschaft. Das muss man klar sagen. Es ist eher ein Massenphänomen. Es hat auch politische Repräsentanz durch entsprechende Parteien. Und das macht es so, so schwierig und auch so gefährlich, denke ich.</p> 2176 2177 2178 2179<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Weil Sie die Reichsbürger ansprechen, ist ganz interessant, die werden momentan von den Verfassungsschutzbehörden noch als eigener politischer Phänomenbereich betrachtet. Aber die Ãberschneidungen mit dem Rechtsextremismus sind natürlich enorm groÃ.Also es ist ein bisschen zisilisiert, dass man sagt, das ist jetzt eine ganz andere Weltanschauung als klassischer Rechtsextremismus. Auf der einen Seite stimmt es, wenn man sich das ganz genau anschaut, aber die Strukturen sind sehr ähnlich. Die personellen Ãberschneidungen sind sehr groÃ. Und auch die politischen Ziele sind da ganz ähnlich, sodass ich sagen würde, Reichsbürgerszene, Rechtsextremismus, Rechtsradikalismus zusammengenommen sind einfach aktuell die gröÃten Gefahren für die Demokratie in Deutschland.</p> 2180 2181 2182 2183<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="802" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backlighting-deutsches-eck-moselle-rhine-emperor-emperor-wilhelm-i-equestrian-equestrian-statue-monument-emperor-wilhelm-monument-emil-dog-giant-stockpack-pixabay-1200x802.jpg" alt="backlighting, deutsches eck, moselle, rhine, emperor, emperor wilhelm i, equestrian, equestrian statue, monument, emperor wilhelm monument, emil dog giant, deutsches eck, emperor, emperor, emperor, emperor, emperor" class="wp-image-32934" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 34" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backlighting-deutsches-eck-moselle-rhine-emperor-emperor-wilhelm-i-equestrian-equestrian-statue-monument-emperor-wilhelm-monument-emil-dog-giant-stockpack-pixabay-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backlighting-deutsches-eck-moselle-rhine-emperor-emperor-wilhelm-i-equestrian-equestrian-statue-monument-emperor-wilhelm-monument-emil-dog-giant-stockpack-pixabay-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backlighting-deutsches-eck-moselle-rhine-emperor-emperor-wilhelm-i-equestrian-equestrian-statue-monument-emperor-wilhelm-monument-emil-dog-giant-stockpack-pixabay-768x513.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backlighting-deutsches-eck-moselle-rhine-emperor-emperor-wilhelm-i-equestrian-equestrian-statue-monument-emperor-wilhelm-monument-emil-dog-giant-stockpack-pixabay.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Photo by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/Chraecker?utm_source=Stockpack&utm_medium=referral" class="stockpack-author" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chraecker</a> on <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/52402?utm_source=Stockpack&utm_medium=referral" class="stockpack-provider" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure> 2184 2185 2186 2187<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong>
2187 Gerade in der Vergangenheit war die Angst vor Islamismus ja extrem groÃ. Warum ist der dann weniger gefährlich vielleicht als Rechtsextremismus?</p> 2188 2189 2190 2191<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Also ich könnte das ganz platt sagen und könnte sagen, es sitzt keine islamistische Partei im Parlament. Es hat keine islamistische Partei in den Talkshows dieser Republik, irgendetwas zum Besten zu geben.</p> 2192 2193 2194 2195<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das heiÃt nicht, dass Islamismus irgendwie unproblematisch oder ungefährlich ist. Aber es hat nicht diese enorme Resonanz, die der Rechtsextremismus in der Gesellschaft hat. Auf der anderen Seite muss man natürlich aufpassen, dass man da keine blinden Flecken entwickelt.</p> 2196 2197 2198 2199<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und natürlich steht unter öffentlicher Beobachtung momentan vor allen Dingen der Rechtsextremismus und Rechtsradikalismus und die Reichsbürger, was nicht bedeuten kann, dass man sich eben andere Formen des Extremismus nicht genau betrachten müsste, jetzt auch aus dem journalistischen Bereich, auch aus den öffentlichen Debatten heraus.</p> 2200 2201 2202 2203<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Einer Ihrer ganz wichtigen Forschungsschwerpunkte ist ja, wie wir schon erwähnt haben, die wehrhafte Demokratie. Müssen wir uns kollektiv vielleicht bestimmte Grundsätze mehr zu Herzen nehmen, um eine wehrhafte Demokratie zu schaffen?</p> 2204 2205 2206 2207<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Ja, auf jeden Fall. Also es gibt in der Bevölkerung, aber auch in Teilen der Politik ja die Vorstellung, Demokratie heiÃt, jeder darf alles sagen, darf mit jedem Programm antreten, und solange es dafür irgendwie Mehrheiten gibt, ist das auch demokratisch. Und das ist eine sehr verkürzte Vorstellung von Demokratie.</p> 2208 2209 2210 2211<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also klar, Mehrheitsentscheidungen sind zentral für Demokratien, aber zumindest in der Vorstellung des Grundgesetzes und eigentlich aller westlichen Demokratien, sag ich mal, gehört noch mehr dazu.</p> 2212 2213 2214 2215<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das ist die Rechtsstaatlichkeit, die Menschenwürde, der Schutz von Minderheitenrechten, auch so was ganz Banales wie, dass man eben prozedural vorgeht. Also dass nicht eine Person, egal mit welcher Mehrheit die gewählt ist, einfach beschlieÃen kann, das und das wird jetzt gemacht, sondern dass es eine Gewaltenteilung gibt, dass es Parlamente gibt, dass es Gerichte gibt, die auch politische Entscheidungen überprüfen können nach dem MaÃstab der Gesetze und der Verfassung.</p> 2216 2217 2218 2219<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und diese Idee noch stärker in die Bevölkerung zu tragen, das wäre, glaube ich, schon mal das eine, was wirklich wichtig wäre. Und zum anderen kann man dann natürlich auch spezifisch mal daran erinnern, was es eben an Instrumenten der wehrhaften Demokratie im Grundgesetz gibt. Und das ist eben mehr als das Parteienverbot. Das ist ganz, ganz banal, auch die Rechtsstaatlichkeit, die mir als Bürgerin, als Bürger garantiert, dass ich nicht diskriminiert werden darf, dass es auch keine Hetzjagden auch im Internet geben darf auf Einzelpersonen, auf individuelle Bürgerinnen und Bürger, weil auch das schon undemokratisch ist, wenn Einzelne zum Opfer von solchen politischen Kampagnen werden.</p> 2220 2221 2222 2223<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Bei meiner Recherche ist mir aufgefallen, dass Sie auch ein Zitat gerne verwenden bei diesem Thema: “Der freiheitliche säkularisierte Staat lebt von Voraussetzungen, die er selbst nicht garantieren kann.”</p> 2224 2225 2226 2227<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Was bedeutet das für Sie?</p> 2228 2229 2230 2231<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="800" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/diversity-people-group-silhouettes-people-of-different-colors-collect-differences-different-lots-crowd-storiesofdiversity-stockpack-pixabay-1200x800.jpg" alt="diversity, people, group, silhouettes, people of different colors, collect, differences, different, lots, crowd, storiesofdiversity, diversity, diversity, diversity, diversity, diversity, different, crowd, crowd, crowd" class="wp-image-32935" title="Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie 35" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/diversity-people-group-silhouettes-people-of-different-colors-collect-differences-different-lots-crowd-storiesofdiversity-stockpack-pixabay-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/diversity-people-group-silhouettes-people-of-different-colors-collect-differences-different-lots-crowd-storiesofdiversity-stockpack-pixabay-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/diversity-people-group-silhouettes-people-of-different-colors-collect-differences-different-lots-crowd-storiesofdiversity-stockpack-pixabay-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/diversity-people-group-silhouettes-people-of-different-colors-collect-differences-different-lots-crowd-storiesofdiversity-stockpack-pixabay.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100v
2231w, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Photo by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/geralt?utm_source=Stockpack&utm_medium=referral" class="stockpack-author" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">geralt</a> on <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/5541062?utm_source=Stockpack&utm_medium=referral" class="stockpack-provider" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure> 2232 2233 2234 2235<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Das ist das berühmte Böckenförde-Diktum. Der frühere Verfassungsrichter hat das, ich weià gar nicht vor wie vielen Jahrzehnten, muss man inzwischen sagen, geschrieben. Er dachte dabei, glaube ich, spezifisch an die Bedeutung der Kirchen, auch im säkularen Staat, aber man kann das viel weiter fassen.</p> 2236 2237 2238 2239<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Und so verstehe ich das auch, nämlich dass Demokratie ohne Zivilgesellschaft eigentlich nicht funktionieren kann. Also klar bei Demokratie denken wir alle an demokratische Institutionen. Wir denken vielleicht auch an individuelle Bürgerinnen und Bürger.</p> 2240 2241 2242 2243<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Aber es ist auch ganz wichtig, sich daran zu erinnern, dass eben demokratische Werte, demokratische Praxis eingeübt wird, auch in Vereinen, in allen möglichen anderen Zusammenschlüssen und dass diese Zusammenschlüsse auch jenseits der Parteien, an die man vielleicht noch denkt, enorm wichtig sind in jeder pluralistischen Demokratie, weil das eigentlich das Blut der Demokratie ist, um es bisschen pathetisch auszudrücken, das da durch den politischen Körper strömt.</p> 2244 2245 2246 2247<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Würden Sie dann auch sagen, wie man das ja so kennt, diesen Ausdruck von Demokratie ist nicht einfach da, Demokratie müssen wir gemeinsam erbauen und erkämpfen.</p> 2248 2249 2250 2251<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Ja, das würde ich sofort unterschreiben, wobei ich immer sagen würde, das klingt jetzt so, wie Sie es gerade formuliert haben, so nach Sonntagsreden und vor allen Dingen auch so, als ob das was unglaublich Mühsames wäre, jetzt so eine Pflicht, die wir erfüllen müssen. Und ich glaube, wir sind in Deutschland auch immer gerne so ein bisschen sehr ernsthaft.</p> 2252 2253 2254 2255<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Es macht ja auch SpaÃ. Also auch die Zivilgesellschaft, die lebt ja davon, dass Leute da gerne hingehen. Nicht nur weil sie denken, das ist jetzt mal eine demokratische Pflicht und es gehört zum Bild der guten Bürgerin oder des guten Bürgers, dass man sich irgendwie engagiert.</p> 2256 2257 2258 2259<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Also oft hat man ja auch tatsächlich Freude dran, geht da vielleicht auch mit Freundinnen und Freunden hin und muss vielleicht auch gar nicht drüber nachdenken, dass man da jetzt was Wichtiges für die Demokratie tut.</p> 2260 2261 2262 2263<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Zum Ende interessiert mich jetzt noch Ihre eigene Einstellung zu dem Thema, denn es ist ein sehr wichtiger Lebensinhalt von Ihnen, sich mit diesen Fragen auseinanderzusetzen, immer wieder sich damit zu konfrontieren. Da interessiert mich natürlich, haben Sie selbst den Eindruck, dass Ihre Forschung einen positiven Beitrag zu den politischen Entwicklungen in unserem Land leistet?</p> 2264 2265 2266 2267<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong>
2267 Ich würde ein bisschen anders anfangen, glaube ich, als ich angefangen habe, mich mit diesen Themen zu beschäftigen in den 90er Jahren, war auch in der deutschen Politik nicht alles unkompliziert, aber diese RechtsauÃenparteien waren schon ein Randphänomen. Man hatte damals eher ein Problem mit rechter StraÃengewalt, so bewegungsförmiger Rechte, aber im Parteien-System spielte das jetzt nicht so eine groÃe Rolle und das erklärt auch so ein bisschen, dass ich angefangen habe mich für andere Länder in Europa zu interessieren. Also Italien, Frankreich zum Beispiel, wo diese Entwicklungen einfach schon weiter fortgeschritten waren.</p> 2268 2269 2270 2271<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In den letzten 20 Jahren, 15 Jahren habe ich erlebt, dass meine Forschung für mich persönlich zumindest auch in Deutschland relevanter geworden ist, das war für mich nicht unbedingt eine positive Erfahrung. Also ich hätte mich gerne eher mit Spartenphänomenen als mit Dingen beschäftigt, die jeden Tag in der Tagesschau auftauchen. Das ist so das eine.</p> 2272 2273 2274 2275<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Von daher würde ich sagen, ja, es ist relevanter geworden, aber ich habe ein ambivalentes Gefühl dabei. Und es ist auch nicht so, dass die Erkenntnisse, die wir in der Forschung produzieren, jetzt unbedingt mit offenen Armen in der Politik aufgenommen werden. Also ganz viele Menschen in dem Bereich, in dem ich arbeite, machen in der einen oder anderen Form Politikberatungen.</p> 2276 2277 2278 2279<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wir gehen zu öffentlichen Veranstaltungen, aber wir gehen auch zu Veranstaltungen, die von Parteien organisiert werden, wo man sich das alles anhört, was wir zu sagen haben. Aber trotzdem habe ich manchmal den Eindruck, in Deutschland muss jede Partei ihre eigenen Fehler machen, die lernen nicht aus dem, was im Ausland passiert ist.</p> 2280 2281 2282 2283<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Ich hatte ja vorhin schon mal kurz über Frankreich gesprochen und das Verschwinden im Grunde genommen der Mitte-Rechtsparteien, aber auch der Sozialisten, Sozialdemokraten. Das können Sie deutschen Politikern erzählen. Sie können versuchen, denen die Mechanismen dahinter zu erklären. Die lächeln Sie an und sagen, wir müssen die AfD politisch stellen.</p> 2284 2285 2286 2287<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Professor Arzheimer, vielen Dank für Ihre spannenden Antworten und dass Sie uns an Ihrer Forschung teilhaben lassen.</p> 2288 2289 2290 2291<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>KA</strong> Sehr gerne, vielen Dank für die Einladung.</p> 2292 2293 2294 2295<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>LM</strong> Das war mein Gespräch mit Professor Kai Arzheimer. Ich wollte herausfinden, was eine wehrhafte Demokratie ausmacht und wie wir hier in Deutschland diesbezüglich dastehen. Im internationalen Vergleich haben wir eine gute Position. Einerseits durch unser diverses politisches System, in dem verschiedene Haltungen abgebildet werden. Andererseits durch politische Institutionen, welche die Macht im Staat verteilen und sich selbst überprüfen.</p> 2296 2297 2298 2299<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Polizeistudie Insider, die Professor Arzheimer mitgestaltet hat, ist ein gutes Beispiel für weitere Institutionen wie der Wissenschaft und dem Journalismus, die den Staat überprüfen und ihre Ergebnisse öffentlich machen können.</p> 2300 2301 2302 2303<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Wie uns Professor Arzheimer eindrücklich erklärt hat, muss dieses System aber auch durch jeden einzelnen von uns getragen und unterstützt werden. Eine wehrhafte Demokratie kann nicht allein durch den Staat garantiert werden, sie ist das Produkt einer ganzen Gesellschaft und jedes einzelnen.</p> 2304 2305 2306 2307<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 2308<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2309<!-- YARPP List --> 2310<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2311<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 2312<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 2313<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 2314</ol> 2315</div> 2316]]></content> 2317 <link href="https://video.uni-mainz.de/Panopto/Podcast/StreamInBrowser/49ec5c0c-03b2-4b10-989c-b308009438f7.mp4?mediaTargetType=audioPodcast" rel="enclosure" length="292" type="video/mp4" /> 2318 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/podcast-wehrhafte-demokratie/#comments" thr:count="26"/> 2319 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="26"/> 2320 <thr:total>26</thr:total> 2321 </entry> 2322 <entry> 2323 <author> 2324 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2325 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2326 </author> 2327 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of “purity”: four links I liked]]></title> 2328 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/misogynistic-manifestos-wolves-not-voting-for-the-afd-meta-is-evil-and-the-hidden-costs-of-purity-four-links-i-liked/" /> 2329 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32916</id> 2330 <updated>2025-07-19T20:27:47+02:00</updated> 2331 <published>2025-07-18T20:04:59+02:00</published> 2332 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Karmvir Padda is a sociologist at the University of Waterloo. For her PhD research, she has analysed numerous manifestos written by men who perpetrated violent attacks motivated by their political or religious views. A large chunk of them rationalise violence that is explicitly directed against women. Back in 2022, two colleagues published a research paper ... <a title="Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of “purity”: four links I liked" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/misogynistic-manifestos-wolves-not-voting-for-the-afd-meta-is-evil-and-the-hidden-costs-of-purity-four-links-i-liked/" aria-label="Read more about Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of “purity”: four links I liked">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2333<!-- YARPP List --> 2334<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2335<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2336<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/" rel="bookmark" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research">Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research</a></li> 2337<li>
2337<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 2338</ol> 2339</div> 2340]]></summary> 2341 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/misogynistic-manifestos-wolves-not-voting-for-the-afd-meta-is-evil-and-the-hidden-costs-of-purity-four-links-i-liked/"><![CDATA[ 2342<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/contacts/karmvir-k-padda" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Karmvir Padda</a> is a sociologist at the University of Waterloo. For her PhD research, she has analysed numerous manifestos written by men who perpetrated violent attacks motivated by their political or religious views. A large chunk of them rationalise violence that is explicitly directed against women.</p> 2343 2344 2345 2346<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-conversation wp-block-embed-the-conversation"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2347<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://theconversation.com/i-analyzed-more-than-100-extremist-manifestos-misogyny-was-the-common-thread-259347#secret=68e90ef3e776e" title="I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread" data-secret="68e90ef3e776e" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2348</div></figure> 2349 2350 2351 2352<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Back in 2022, two colleagues published a <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202224119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research paper</a> that triggered a media frenzy because they claimed that there was a positive causal effect of wolf attacks on voting for the radical right <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/an-alternative-for-germany/">AfD</a> in Germany. <a href="https://erikgahner.dk/2022/wolf-attacks-predict-far-right-voting/" data-type="link" data-id="https://erikgahner.dk/2022/wolf-attacks-predict-far-right-voting/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Some people found that hard to believe</a>, many more shook their heads and moved on, but <a href="https://quantitative-methoden.soziologie.uni-mainz.de/en/dr-nico-sonntag/" data-type="link" data-id="https://quantitative-methoden.soziologie.uni-mainz.de/en/dr-nico-sonntag/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">one person</a> persisted and wrote the most beautiful refutation that I could imagine. </p> 2353 2354 2355 2356<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Incidentally, this article also does a great job explaining the promises and perils of spatial panel analysis (even if I have already forgotten most of the details).</p> 2357 2358 2359 2360<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-style-default"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379425000630" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="1024" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wolf-afd.jpg" alt="Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of "purity": four links I liked 28" class="wp-image-32918" style="aspect-ratio:16/9;object-fit:cover" title="Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of "purity": four links I liked 36" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wolf-afd.jpg 1024w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wolf-afd-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wolf-afd-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wolf-afd-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wolf-afd-120x120.jpg 120w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></figure> 2361 2362 2363 2364<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Even before Zuckerberg began courting Trump, everybody knew that you cannot trust Meta, yet billions of us (including me) keep using their software and become, as the old saying goes, their product. </p> 2365 2366 2367 2368<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This article is interesting for a number of reasons. First, the technological chicanery is quite fascinating. If I understand this correctly (not a given), they are using spyware techniques to conceal breaches of data protection rules which they claim to comply with. Second, the regulation of digital products by the EU and the enforcement of these rules have become (geo-)politicised. It will be <em>interesting</em> to see how this unfolds. In other news, my ancient Samsung phone does not allow me to remove the Facebook app. </p> 2369 2370 2371 2372<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-www-zeropartydata-es wp-block-embed-www-zeropartydata-es"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
2373<script src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/plugins/embed-extended/assets/js/embed.js?ver=1.4.0"></script>
2373<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could#secret=68e90ef42a0f1" title="âLocalhost trackingâ explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion." data-secret="68e90ef42a0f1" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2374</div></figure> 2375 2376 2377 2378<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Speaking of Meta: Evangelicals are receiving a lot of international attention at the moment for obvious reasons. Much of the coverage rightly focuses on the damage that is done to women and women’s rights, whereas this excellent but disturbing article is interested in a somewhat neglected question: how does growing up in a high-control religious affect men? </p> 2379 2380 2381 2382<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-guardian wp-block-embed-the-guardian"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2383<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/17/evangelical-sex-marriage#secret=68e90ef449944" title="These evangelical men saved sex for marriage â they werenât well prepared" data-secret="68e90ef449944" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2384</div></figure> 2385 2386 2387 2388<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But what is the link to Meta? Facebook inflicted a penalty on me when I shared the link, as the illustration violates Meta’s community standards. You couldn’t make this up. </p> 2389 2390 2391 2392<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="814" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/penalised-by-meta.jpg" alt="Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of "purity": four links I liked 29" class="wp-image-32922" title="Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of "purity": four links I liked 37" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/penalised-by-meta.jpg 1024w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/penalised-by-meta-300x238.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/penalised-by-meta-768x611.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> 2393<span class="syn-text">Also on:</span><p class="relsyn"><span><a aria-label="bluesky" class="u-syndication syn-link" href="https://bsky.app/profile/kai-arzheimer.com/post/3ludgrtja5u26"> Bluesky</a></span></p><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2394<!-- YARPP List --> 2395<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2396<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2397<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/" rel="bookmark" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research">Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research</a></li> 2398<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 2399</ol> 2400</div> 2401]]></content> 2402 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/misogynistic-manifestos-wolves-not-voting-for-the-afd-meta-is-evil-and-the-hidden-costs-of-purity-four-links-i-liked/#comments" thr:count="5"/> 2403 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="5"/> 2404 <thr:total>5</thr:total> 2405 </entry> 2406 <entry> 2407 <author> 2408 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2409 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2410 </author> 2411 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research]]></title> 2412 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/" /> 2413 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32898</id> 2414 <updated>2025-07-30T13:27:33+02:00</updated> 2415 <published>2025-07-11T10:34:25+02:00</published> 2416 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[New publication: In Western Europe, Islamophobia overlaps with far right attitudes, but is unrelated to religiosity. This is consistent with the "Christianist" strategy employed by many far right actors in the region. <div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2417<!-- YARPP List --> 2418<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2419<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2420<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 2421<li>
2421<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 2422</ol> 2423</div> 2424]]></summary> 2425 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/"><![CDATA[ 2426<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Religious prejudice in secular societies?</h2> 2427 2428 2429 2430<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Islamophobia is everywhere. In the 21st century, Muslims have become the most significant “outgroup” in Western Europe, with the far-right seemingly embracing Christianity. Unlike in the US, however, the majority of far right actors in Western Europe have secular, anti-clerical, or even neo-pagan roots, in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41148132?seq=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of the most rapidly secularising regions in the world.</a> </p> 2431 2432 2433 2434<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Consistent with this, <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/explanations-radical-right-voting/" data-type="paper" data-id="25483">most far right voters have little interest in religion</a>. Therefore, the faith of certain immigrants and their descendants <em>should</em> not be such a big issue.</p> 2435 2436 2437 2438<p class="wp-block-paragraph">One prominent explanation for this apparent paradox is that Western European far right actors have developed a rhetorical strategy (“Christianism”) which uses Christianity primarily as a <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2017.1294700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cultural marker that is largely devoid of religiosity</a> but facilitates the “othering” of Muslims. In secular Western Europe, Christianism appears to be an attractive discursive and communication strategy for far right actors. </p> 2439 2440 2441<figure class="wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LpgHKAz8cPU/hqdefault.jpg" alt="YouTube Video" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research 38"></a><br /> <a href="https://youtu.be/LpgHKAz8cPU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch this video on YouTube</a>.<br /><figcaption></figcaption></figure> 2442 2443 2444<p class="wp-block-paragraph">However, surprisingly little is known about the connection between <strong>religiosity, Islamophobia, and populist far-right ideology</strong> within Western Europe’s <strong>mass belief systems</strong>. Existing studies primarily focus on two narrow aspects:</p> 2445 2446 2447 2448<ul class="wp-block-list"> 2449<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/christian-religions-radical-right-parties/" data-type="paper" data-id="7779">Religiosity’s impact on far right electoral support</a></li> 2450 2451 2452 2453<li>The <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1007/s13644-013-0126-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">link between religion and anti-immigrant/Muslim prejudice</a>, often in isolation from broader far-right attitudes.</li> 2454</ul> 2455 2456 2457 2458<h2 class="wp-block-heading">New article in Research & Politics</h2> 2459 2460 2461 2462<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In a <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680251351895" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new article on Islamophobia and far right attitudes that has just been published in Research & Politics (open access)</a>, I analyse survey data from Britain, France, Germany (East & West), and the Netherlands that were collected <a href="https://www.score.uni-mainz.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">under the auspices of the SCoRE project</a> to address this gap. </p> 2463 2464 2465 2466<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), I uncover these key findings:</p> 2467 2468 2469 2470<ul class="wp-block-list"> 2471<li>Religiosity is mostly unrelated to Islamophobia, nativism, right-wing authoritarianism, and populism.</li> 2472 2473 2474 2475<li>Islamophobia overlaps with both nativism and authoritarianism and, to a lesser degree, with populism.</li> 2476 2477 2478 2479<li>Put differently, individuals who fear immigration/immigrants and advocate for strict laws/harsh enforcement also tend to reject Islam – <strong>but not for religious reasons</strong>.</li> 2480</ul> 2481 2482 2483 2484<figure data-wp-context="{"imageId":"6abf1ab1b5dfd"}
2484" data-wp-interactive="core/image" data-wp-key="6abf1ab1b5dfd" class="wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="193" data-wp-class--hide="state.isContentHidden" data-wp-class--show="state.isContentVisible" data-wp-init="callbacks.setButtonStyles" data-wp-on--click="actions.showLightbox" data-wp-on--load="callbacks.setButtonStyles" data-wp-on--pointerdown="actions.preloadImage" data-wp-on--pointerenter="actions.preloadImageWithDelay" data-wp-on--pointerleave="actions.cancelPreload" data-wp-on-window--resize="callbacks.setButtonStyles" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cfa-model-1200x193.png" alt="Islamophobia and related constructs (Structural Equation Model)" class="wp-image-32899" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research 39" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cfa-model-1200x193.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cfa-model-300x48.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cfa-model-768x124.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cfa-model.png 1384w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><button 2485 class="lightbox-trigger" 2486 type="button" 2487 aria-haspopup="dialog" 2488 data-wp-bind--aria-label="state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel" 2489 data-wp-init="callbacks.initTriggerButton" 2490 data-wp-on--click="actions.showLightbox" 2491 data-wp-style--right="state.thisImage.buttonRight" 2492 data-wp-style--top="state.thisImage.buttonTop" 2493 > 2494 <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="12" height="12" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 12 12"> 2495 <path fill="#fff" d="M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z" /> 2496 </svg> 2497 </button></figure> 2498 2499 2500 2501<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Data and replication</h2> 2502 2503 2504 2505<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The data come from four large online surveys that were carried out in the context of national elections at the tail end of the so-called refugee crisis. Participants were recruited from large access panels. Respondents from Germany’s eastern states were oversampled so that their data can be analysed separately to provide additional contextual variation. Sample sizes vary from 4,031 (Eastern Germany) to 14,399 (Western Germany). </p> 2506 2507 2508 2509<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands were chosen because of their <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2017/11/FULL-REPORT-FOR-WEB-POSTING.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">significant Muslim minorities (6-9% of the population)</a> and rapid secularisation, with only <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/05/Being-Christian-in-Western-Europe-FOR-WEB1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15-22% of the population attending church</a>. All four countries also feature relevant far-right actors.</p> 2510 2511 2512 2513<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At the same time, state-church relations and far right traditions vary considerably, yet the results are very similar across contexts. They should therefore generalise well to other West European countries. </p> 2514 2515 2516 2517<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1152" height="864" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/islamophobia-data.jpg" alt="abstract computer keyboard letters and numbers" class="wp-image-32904" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research 40" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/islamophobia-data.jpg 1152w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/islamophobia-data-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/islamophobia-data-768x576.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></figure> 2518 2519 2520 2521<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IZK5SF" data-type="link" data-id="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IZK5SF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Replication data and scripts</a> are available from the journal’s dataverse. Additional <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/20531680251351895/suppl_file/sj-pdf-1-rap-10.1177_20531680251351895.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">graphs and tables</a> can be found in the online appendix.</p> 2522 2523 2524 2525<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Implications</h2> 2526 2527 2528 2529<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The study’s results on mass belief systems in Western Europe are consistent with a “<strong>Christianist</strong>” strategy employed by radical right parties. Christianism is useful for “othering” Muslims. At the same time, it is devoid of genuine religiosity and any inconvenient appeals to love one’s neighbour. </p> 2530 2531 2532 2533<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The absence of a link between religiosity and Islamophobia also helps explain the absence of a genuine, electorally relevant religious far right in Western Europe.
2533</p> 2534 2535 2536 2537<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now read the <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680251351895" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full, free, short, and sweet article at Research & Politics.</a></p> 2538 2539 2540<p><ul class="papercite_bibliography"> <li> Arzheimer, Kai. “Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but highly correlated with far right attitudes.” <span style="font-weight: bold">Research & Politics</span> 12.3 (2025): online first. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20531680251351895" class="papercite_doi" title="View on publisher site" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doi:10.1177/20531680251351895</a> <br/> <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="papercite_1" class="papercite_toggle">[BibTeX]</a> <a href="javascript:void(0)" id="papercite_abstract_1" class="papercite_toggle">[Abstract]</a> <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/reader/10.1177/20531680251351895" title="Download PDF" class="papercite_pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[Download PDF]</a> <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680251351895" title="view HTML" class="papercite_pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[HTML] </a> <blockquote class="papercite_bibtex" id="papercite_abstract_1_block">The far right’s relationship with religion has become a major focus of current research. Even in Western Europe, one of the most rapidly secularising areas of the world, far right actors claim to defend Christian values against the alleged threat of Islam and Muslim immigrants, a rhetorical strategy known as ‘Christianism’. Yet, little is known about how religiosity, Islamophobia, and populist far-right ideology are connected at the level of mass belief systems in Western Europe. Most of the literature is focused either on religiosity’s effect on voting or on the connection between religiosity and ethnic prejudice, without considering religiosity’s relationships with the wider spectrum of far-right ideology. The present article fills this gap by analysing survey data from Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. It uses SEM to uncover the relationships between Christian religiosity on the one hand and Islamophobia and far-right attitudes on the other. The results are broadly similar across different contexts: religiosity is mostly unrelated to Islamophobia, nativism, right-wing authoritarianism, and populism. Conversely, Islamophobia overlaps considerably with both nativism and authoritarianism: people who perceive immigration as a threat and favour strict laws and harsh enforcement also tend to reject Islam, but not for religious reasons. This pattern is compatible with the strategy of Christianism, which is largely devoid of religiosity, yet facilitates the “othering” of Muslims as a cultural out-group. It also helps to explain why there is no genuine, electorally relevant religious far right in Western Europe.</blockquote> <div class="papercite_bibtex" id="papercite_1_block"> <pre><code class="tex bibtex">@Article{arzheimer-2025b, 2541author = {Kai Arzheimer}, 2542title = {Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but 2543highly correlated with far right attitudes}, 2544journal = {Research \& Politics}, 2545year = 2025, 2546volume = 12, 2547number = 3, 2548pages = {online first}, 2549html = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680251351895}, 2550abstract = {The far right's relationship with religion has become a major focus 2551of current research. Even in Western Europe, one of the most 2552rapidly secularising areas of the world, far right actors claim to 2553defend Christian values against the alleged threat of Islam and 2554Muslim immigrants, a rhetorical strategy known as 'Christianism'. 2555Yet, little is known about how religiosity, Islamophobia, and 2556populist far-right ideology are connected at the level of mass 2557belief systems in Western Europe. Most of the literature is focused 2558either on religiosity's effect on voting or on the connection 2559between religiosity and ethnic prejudice, without considering 2560religiosity's relationships with the wider spectrum of far-right
2561ideology. The present article fills this gap by analysing survey 2562data from Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. It uses 2563SEM to uncover the relationships between Christian religiosity on 2564the one hand and Islamophobia and far-right attitudes on the other. 2565The results are broadly similar across different contexts: 2566religiosity is mostly unrelated to Islamophobia, nativism, 2567right-wing authoritarianism, and populism. Conversely, Islamophobia 2568overlaps considerably with both nativism and authoritarianism: 2569people who perceive immigration as a threat and favour strict laws 2570and harsh enforcement also tend to reject Islam, but not for 2571religious reasons. This pattern is compatible with the strategy of 2572Christianism, which is largely devoid of religiosity, yet 2573facilitates the "othering" of Muslims as a cultural out-group. It 2574also helps to explain why there is no genuine, electorally relevant 2575religious far right in Western Europe.}, 2576url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/reader/10.1177/20531680251351895}, 2577doi = {10.1177/20531680251351895} 2578}</code></pre> </div> </li> </ul></p> 2579 2580 2581<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 2582<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2583<!-- YARPP List --> 2584<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2585<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2586<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 2587<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 2588</ol> 2589</div> 2590]]></content> 2591 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 2592 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 2593 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 2594 </entry> 2595 <entry> 2596 <author> 2597 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2598 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2599 </author> 2600 <title type="html"><![CDATA[The machine is still stupid, most of the time]]></title> 2601 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-machine-is-still-stupid-most-of-the-time/" /> 2602 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32890</id> 2603 <updated>2025-07-12T10:01:17+02:00</updated> 2604 <published>2025-07-07T11:01:23+02:00</published> 2605 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Data and Methods" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="academic writing" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="fun" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Choose one: a) This is reassuring, because our algorithmic overlords are still mostly quite stupid, or b) they are lulling us into a false sense of security until it is too late? I lean towards b), because this was shown to me on RG, a site that makes it its actual business to know exactly ... <a title="The machine is still stupid, most of the time" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-machine-is-still-stupid-most-of-the-time/" aria-label="Read more about The machine is still stupid, most of the time">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2606<!-- YARPP List --> 2607<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2608<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/party-identification-germany-journey/" rel="bookmark" title="Party Identification in Germany: A Journey">Party Identification in Germany: A Journey</a></li> 2609<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2610<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/" rel="bookmark" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research">Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research</a></li> 2611</ol> 2612</div> 2613]]></summary> 2614 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-machine-is-still-stupid-most-of-the-time/"><![CDATA[ 2615<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Choose one: </p> 2616 2617 2618 2619<p class="wp-block-paragraph">a) This is reassuring, because our algorithmic overlords are still mostly quite stupid, or b) they are lulling us into a fal
2619se sense of security until it is too late?</p> 2620 2621 2622 2623<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I lean towards b), because this was shown to me on RG, a site that makes it its actual business to know exactly what I write about and in which outlets I publish.</p> 2624<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2625<!-- YARPP List --> 2626<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2627<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/party-identification-germany-journey/" rel="bookmark" title="Party Identification in Germany: A Journey">Party Identification in Germany: A Journey</a></li> 2628<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2629<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/islamophobia-far-right-religion/" rel="bookmark" title="Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research">Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research</a></li> 2630</ol> 2631</div> 2632]]></content> 2633 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-machine-is-still-stupid-most-of-the-time/#comments" thr:count="11"/> 2634 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="11"/> 2635 <thr:total>11</thr:total> 2636 </entry> 2637 <entry> 2638 <author> 2639 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2640 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2641 </author> 2642 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Interview with Kathimerini on Merkel’s legacy]]></title> 2643 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-with-kathimerini-on-merkels-legacy/" /> 2644 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32867</id> 2645 <updated>2025-07-02T11:54:23+02:00</updated> 2646 <published>2025-07-02T11:53:03+02:00</published> 2647 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="cdu" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="merkel" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Believe it or not, today, Angela Merkel is travelling to Athens again, and this time, she will be discussing …. her autobiography, which has been translated into Greek. Over at Kathimerini (organising the event), Xenia Kounalaki kindly asked for my opinion on various matters connected in one way or another to Merkel’s tenure. We had ... <a title="Interview with Kathimerini on Merkel’s legacy" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-with-kathimerini-on-merkels-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Interview with Kathimerini on Merkel’s legacy">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2648<!-- YARPP List --> 2649<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2650<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" rel="bookmark" title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked</a></li> 2651<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 2652<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 2653</ol> 2654</div> 2655]]></summary> 2656 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-with-kathimerini-on-merkels-legacy/"><![CDATA[ 2657<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Believe it or not, today, Angela Merkel is travelling to Athens again, and this time, she will be discussing …. her autobiography, which has been translated into Greek. Over at Kathimerini (organising the event), <a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/author/xenia-koun
2657alaki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xenia Kounalaki</a> kindly asked for my opinion on various matters connected in one way or another to Merkel’s tenure. We had a very long chat, and most of it made it into this article.</p> 2658 2659 2660 2661<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-www-ekathimerini-com wp-block-embed-www-ekathimerini-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2662<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1273887/what-16-years-of-merkel-left-us-with/#secret=68e90ef4b85d4" title="What 16 years of Merkel left us with | eKathimerini.com" data-secret="68e90ef4b85d4" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2663</div></figure> 2664<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2665<!-- YARPP List --> 2666<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2667<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" rel="bookmark" title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked</a></li> 2668<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 2669<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 2670</ol> 2671</div> 2672]]></content> 2673 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-with-kathimerini-on-merkels-legacy/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 2674 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 2675 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 2676 </entry> 2677 <entry> 2678 <author> 2679 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2680 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2681 </author> 2682 <title type="html"><![CDATA[nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata]]></title> 2683 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/delta-method-nlcom" /> 2684 <id>http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=12477</id> 2685 <updated>2025-06-28T18:11:51+02:00</updated> 2686 <published>2025-06-28T17:24:30+02:00</published> 2687 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Data and Methods" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="stata" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The delta method approximates the expectation of some function of a random variable by relying on a (truncated) Taylor series expansion. In plain words, that means that one can use the delta method to calculate confidence intervals and perform hypothesis tests on just about every linear or nonlinear transformation of a vector of parameter estimates. Stata's procedure nlcom is a particularly versatile and powerful implementation of the delta method. If you can write down the formula of the transformation, nlcom will spit out the result. And that means that you can abuse Stata's built in procedures to implement your own estimators.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2688<!-- YARPP List --> 2689<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2690<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 2691<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" rel="bookmark" title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked</a></li> 2692<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/sports-cars-sleaze-gamma-rays-rhineland-palatinate-elects-firstred-green-government/" rel="bookmark" title="Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government">Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government</a></li> 2693</ol> 2694</div> 2695]]></summary> 2696 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/delta-method-nlcom"><![CDATA[<h2>What is the Delta Method?</h2> 2697<p>I have used the delta method occasionally for years without really understanding what is going on under the hood. An encounter with an inquisitive reviewer has changed that. As it turned out, the delta method is even more useful than sliced bread, and much healthier.</p> 2698<p>The delta method, whose foundations were laid in the 1940s by Cramér (Oehlert 1992), approximates the expectation (or higher moments) of some function <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=g%28%5Ccdot%29&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="g(\
2698cdot)" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 41"> of a random variable <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=x&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="x" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 42"> by relying on a (truncated) Taylor series expansion. More specifically, Agresti (2002: 578) shows that (under weak conditions) for some parameter <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Ctheta&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="\theta" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 43"> that has an approximately normal sampling distribution with variance <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Csigma%5E%7B2%7D%2Fn&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="\sigma^{2}/n" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 44">, the sampling distribution of <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=g%28%5Ctheta%29&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="g(\theta)" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 45"> is also approximately normal with variance <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Bg%27%28%5Ctheta%29%5D%5E%7B2%7D%5Csigma%5E2%2Fn&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="[g'(\theta)]^{2}\sigma^2/n" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 46">, since <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=g%28%5Ccdot%29&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="g(\cdot)" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 41"> is approximately linear in the neighbourhood of <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=%5Ctheta&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="\theta" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 43">. The delta method can be generalised to the case of a multivariate normal random vector (Agresti 2002: 579) such as the joint sampling distribution of some set of parameter estimates.</p> 2699<p>In plain words, that means that one can use the delta method to calculate confidence intervals and perform hypothesis tests on just about every linear or nonlinear transformation of a <em>vector</em> of parameter estimates. If you are interested in the ratio of two coefficients and need a confidence interval, use the delta method. If, for some reason, you need to know if <img decoding="async" src="https://s0.wp.com/latex.php?latex=e%5E%7B%5Cbeta%7D+%3Ec&bg=ffffff&fg=000&s=0&c=20201002" alt="e^{\beta} >c" class="latex" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 49"> with some probability, the delta method is your friend. Have I already mentioned sliced bread?</p> 2700<h2>The Delta Method in Stata: nlcom</h2> 2701<p>Stata’s procedure <tt>nlcom</tt> is a particularly versatile and powerful implementation of the delta method. As a post-estimation command, <tt>nlcom</tt> accepts symbolic references to model parameters and computes sampling variances for their linear and non-linear combinations and transformations. If you can write down the formula of the transformation, <tt>nlcom</tt> will spit out the result, standard error and confidence interval, and will even store the full variance-covariance matrix of the estimates. That, in turn, means that, amongst other things, you can abuse Stata’s built-in procedures to implement your own estimators.</p> 2702<p>What’s not to like? Well, for one thing, Stata gives no indication of how well the approximation works. It’s always worth checking that the results look reasonable, and in particularly complex circumstances, one should use simulation/bootstrapping for double-checking. And that’s about the only complaint. Basically, n<tt>lcom</tt> is great fun.</p> 2703<h1>References</h1> 2704<p>Agresti, Alan. 2002. Categorical Data Analysis. 2 ed. Hoboken: John Wiley.</p> 2705<p>Oehlert, Gary W. 1992.<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2684406?seq=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> âA Note on the Delta Method</a>.â The American Statistician<br />46(1):27â29.</p> 2706 2707 2708<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="800" height="519" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/delta-method.png" alt="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 30" class="wp-image-32838" title="nlcom and the Delta Method in Stata 50" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/delta-method.png 800w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/delta-method-300x195.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/delta-method-768x498.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100v
2708w, 800px" /></figure> 2709<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2710<!-- YARPP List --> 2711<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2712<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 2713<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" rel="bookmark" title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked</a></li> 2714<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/sports-cars-sleaze-gamma-rays-rhineland-palatinate-elects-firstred-green-government/" rel="bookmark" title="Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government">Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government</a></li> 2715</ol> 2716</div> 2717]]></content> 2718 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/delta-method-nlcom#comments" thr:count="0"/> 2719 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 2720 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 2721 </entry> 2722 <entry> 2723 <author> 2724 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2725 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2726 </author> 2727 <title type="html"><![CDATA[ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata]]></title> 2728 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-margins-average-marginal-effects-marginal-effects-at-the-mean-and-statas-margins-command/" /> 2729 <id>http://www.kai-arzheimer.com/blog/?p=793</id> 2730 <updated>2025-06-28T22:58:27+02:00</updated> 2731 <published>2025-06-28T16:37:38+02:00</published> 2732 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Data and Methods" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="stata" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Stata’s margins command can be a bit confusing Stata’s margins is a postestimation command which does all sorts of amazing things. Margins is incredibly powerful, and the accompanying marginsplot command nearly always does just the right thing. Margins and marginsplot have almost singlehandedly changed the way people interpret the way model estimates (particularly estimates from ... <a title="ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-margins-average-marginal-effects-marginal-effects-at-the-mean-and-statas-margins-command/" aria-label="Read more about ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2733<!-- YARPP List --> 2734<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2735<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" rel="bookmark" title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked</a></li> 2736<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 2737<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/ecpr-joint-sessions-2013-facebook-fanpage/" rel="bookmark" title="ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage">ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage</a></li> 2738</ol> 2739</div> 2740]]></summary> 2741 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-margins-average-marginal-effects-marginal-effects-at-the-mean-and-statas-margins-command/"><![CDATA[<h2>Stata’s margins command can be a bit confusing</h2> 2742<p>Stata’s <code>margins</code> is a postestimation command which does all sorts of amazing things. <code>Margins</code> is incredibly powerful, and the accompanying <code>marginsplot</code> command nearly always does just the right thing.</p> 2743<p><code>Margins</code> and <code>marginsplot</code> have almost singlehandedly changed the way people interpret the way model estimates (particularly estimates from nonlinear and/or interactive models) for the better. “Almost”, because before <code>margins</code> there were similar commands (most notably Long & Freese’s original SPost), but <code>margins</code> is way better.</p> 2744<p>And yet, it seems that my students and I are not the only ones who are occasionally baffled by margins.</p> 2745<p>Stata Corp. provides excellent documentation for <code>margins</code> and <code>marginsplot</code>
2745, but at a little over 60 pages (not counting the remarks on <code>margins</code> post-estimation), the<a href="https://www.stata.com/manuals/rmargins.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> manual entry on </a><a href="https://www.stata.com/manuals/rmargins.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>margins</code></a><a href="https://www.stata.com/manuals/rmargins.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> alone</a> is a little overwhelming. And there are just too many options, which contributes to the general bafflement. More specifically, there are two separate issues that seem to confuse a lot of people (<a href="http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg01588.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">see this discussion on statalist on the then-new </a><a href="http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg01588.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>margins</code></a><a href="http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg01588.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> command</a>).</p> 2746<p><figure id="attachment_32847" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32847" style="width: 1003px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-32847" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stata-margins-in-action.jpg" alt="A plot showing how localism and place resentment jointly affect radical right attitudes" width="1013" height="677" title="ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata 53" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stata-margins-in-action.jpg 1013w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stata-margins-in-action-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/stata-margins-in-action-768x513.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32847" class="wp-caption-text">Stata’s margins and marginsplot command are perfectly suited for understanding interactions (Source: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-political-science-review/article/place-does-matter-for-populist-radical-right-sentiment-but-how-evidence-from-germany/7C639AAC5F6B1BC2F6324F7D57136827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arzheimer/Bernemann 2024</a>)<br /></figcaption></figure></p> 2747<h2>Marginal Effects at the Mean vs Average Marginal Effects</h2> 2748<p>The first is that in the (ever more distant) past, when studying the implications from nonlinear (e.g. logit) models, many people including me used to analyse “<em>marginal effects at the mean</em>“. In short, this boils down to holding most independent variables constant at their grand means/modes while plugging a range of hopefully relevant values for one or two focal variables into the equation. This approach, which was pioneered by J. Scott Long, is easier to understand than to explain and greatly aids the interpretation of non-linear models.</p> 2749<p><code>Margins</code> <em>can</em> (amongst many other things) estimate marginal effects at the mean. But unfortunately, this often results in very unrealistic scenarios if your independent variables are highly correlated (think of holding age constant at its mean whilst simultaneously varying pensioner/non-pensioner status).</p> 2750<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-31313" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stata-margins-average-marginal-effects.jpg" alt="ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata 33" width="500" height="756" title="ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata 54" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stata-margins-average-marginal-effects.jpg 500w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/stata-margins-average-marginal-effects-198x300.jpg 198w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100v
2750w, 500px" /></p> 2751<p>Therefore, looking at “<em>average marginal effects”</em> often makes more sense. These are calculated by varying the focal variable while holding everything else<em> at the observed values</em>. This is what the <code>margins</code> command does by default. Michael Norman Mitchell has a post (since removed, but thankfully preserved by the internet archive) that clearly illustrates the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150219231347/http://www.michaelnormanmitchell.com/stow/marginal-effect-at-mean-vs-average-marginal-effect.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">differences between the two approaches to the estimation of </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150219231347/http://www.michaelnormanmitchell.com/stow/marginal-effect-at-mean-vs-average-marginal-effect.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>margins</code></a>. If you are ready for a somewhat deeper dive, Richard Williams’ 2012 article on <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536867X1201200209" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Using the </a><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536867X1201200209" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>margins</code></a><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536867X1201200209" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> command to estimate and interpret adjusted predictions and marginal effects</a> is a modern classic and a masterclass in didactics, free for you to read at this URL. Moreover, there is an <a href="http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0086" target="_blank" rel="noopener">older article by Tamás Bartus on his (now obsolete) margeff command</a> that is also quite instructive.</p> 2752<p>Another problem with understanding what margins (the thing) and <code>margins</code> (the command) are about is that the terminology varies wildly within and across disciplines. In this respect, I find Williams’ definitions and explanations particularly helpful.</p> 2753<h2>Dubious Confidence Intervals</h2> 2754<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32852" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/margins-dubious-confidence-intervals.jpg" alt="ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata 34" width="1152" height="896" title="ME at the Margins: Average Marginal Effects, Marginal Effects at the Mean, and margins in Stata 55" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/margins-dubious-confidence-intervals.jpg 1152w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/margins-dubious-confidence-intervals-300x233.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/margins-dubious-confidence-intervals-768x597.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px" /></p> 2755<p>But one problem remains: <code>margins</code> uses a normal approximation for calculating confidence intervals. As a result, after estimating a model for categorical dependent variables, you might end up with a CI for your margins that includes zero, which obviously does not make much sense. <a href="http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-04/msg01741.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roger Newson seems to know how to get around this issue</a>. So far, I haven’t used his approach, but it looks plausible enough.</p> 2756<h2>Summary</h2> 2757<p><code>Margins</code> and the <code>marginsplot</code> command are incredibly powerful tools. My students have been conditioned (geddit? geddit?) to resort to <code>margins</code> whenever we encounter interactions and nonlinearities. If you want to get an idea what <code>margins</code> can do for you, there are a lot of tutorials on the internet to work through. The <a href="https://blog.stata.com/tag/margins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stata blog</a> has a lot of interesting material, but the posts are probably not the best point to start. Instead, one could try this <a href="https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats/Margins01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation by Richard Williams,</a> which is based on the article mentioned above, or the even shorter <a href="https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/dae/using-margins-for-predicted-probabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intro to </a><a href="https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/dae/using-margins-for-predicted-probabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>margins</code></a><a href="https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/dae/using-margins-for-predicted-probabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> and </a><a href="https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/dae/using-margins-for-predicted-probabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>marginsplot</code></a><a href="https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/dae/using-margins-for-predicted-probabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> at UCLA’s always useful resource page.</a> And Nari Yoo has <a href="https://nariyoo.com/stata-calculating-predicted-probabilities-margins-marginsplot-and-mchange-commands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another short intro to </a><a href="https://nariyoo.com/stata-calculating-predicted-probabilities-margins-marginsplot-and-mchange-commands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><code>margins</code></a><a href="https://nariyoo.com/stata-calculating-predicted-probabilities-margins-marginsplot-and-mchange-commands/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">,</a> with additional links.</p> 2758<p>And if you would rather use R than Stata, <code>margins</code> and <code>marginsplot</code> have been <del>partially</del> ported to R, <del>but I do not know if these packages are as good as the origina</del>l. See Will’s extensive comment below – again, this looks very interesting.</p> 2759<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2760<!-- YARPP List --> 2761<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2762<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" rel="bookmark" title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked</a></li> 2763<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 2764<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/ecpr-joint-sessions-2013-facebook-fanpage/" rel="bookmark" title="ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage">ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 have a Facebook Fanpage</a></li> 2765</ol> 2766</div> 2767]]></content> 2768 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/me-at-the-margins-average-marginal-effects-marginal-effects-at-the-mean-and-statas-margins-command/#comments" thr:count="56"/> 2769 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="56"/> 2770 <thr:total>56</thr:total> 2771 </entry> 2772 <entry> 2773 <author> 2774 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2775 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2776 </author> 2777 <title type="html"><![CDATA[More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked]]></title> 2778 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" /> 2779 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32816</id> 2780 <updated>2025-06-22T19:54:05+02:00</updated> 2781 <published>2025-06-24T19:30:57+02:00</published> 2782 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I read this the way it was intended: with gory fascination. It’s almost as if capitalism was part of the problem. Interesting that there is now a book about this. Even more interesting that this should be the only book. Blaming America’s religious beginnings for America ‘s weirdness has been a reasonably popular folk theory ... <a title="More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/" aria-label="Read more about More from the manosphere, Christian weirdos, more biopolitics, and why Middle England should care about the climate crisis: four links I liked">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2783<!-- YARPP List --> 2784<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2785<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2786<li>
2786<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 2787<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-2025-election-and-its-aftermath/" rel="bookmark" title="Germany’s 2025 election and its aftermath">Germany’s 2025 election and its aftermath</a></li> 2788</ol> 2789</div> 2790]]></summary> 2791 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/"><![CDATA[ 2792<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>I read this the way it was intended: with gory fascination. It’s almost as if capitalism was part of the problem.</em></p> 2793 2794 2795 2796<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-guardian wp-block-embed-the-guardian"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2797<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/25/nick-wanted-to-drop-bodyfat-and-build-his-own-micro-harem-of-women-how-my-friend-fell-for-the-red-pill-hucksters-of-the-manosphere#secret=68e90ef5186f3" title="Nick wanted to drop bodyfat and build his own micro-harem of women: how my friend fell for the red-pill hucksters of the manosphere" data-secret="68e90ef5186f3" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2798</div></figure> 2799 2800 2801 2802<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 2803 2804 2805 2806<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Interesting that there is now a book about this. Even more interesting that this should be the only book. Blaming America’s religious beginnings for America ‘s weirdness has been a reasonably popular folk theory in Europe for ages.</em></p> 2807 2808 2809 2810<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-salon wp-block-embed-salon"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2811<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.salon.com/2025/05/26/how-america-got-so-weird-the-pilgrims-made-us-do-it/#secret=68e90ef54bb28" title="How America got so weird: The Pilgrims made us do it - Salon.com" data-secret="68e90ef54bb28" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2812</div></figure> 2813 2814 2815 2816<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 2817 2818 2819 2820<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Biopolitics (or rather the obsession with biopolitics) is endlessly fascinating. But “Trump baby bump” is really a very unfortunate turn of phrase. I don’t need this image in my head, at all.</em></p> 2821 2822 2823 2824<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-economist wp-block-embed-the-economist"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2825<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/05/23/trumps-first-term-coincided-with-a-maga-baby-boom-will-his-second#secret=68e90ef564c1d" title="Just a moment..." data-secret="68e90ef564c1d" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2826</div></figure> 2827 2828 2829 2830<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 2831 2832 2833 2834<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>Ladies and Gentlemen: the exact framing needed to get the British right to support Net Zero.</em></p> 2835 2836 2837 2838<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-independent wp-block-embed-the-independent"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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2839<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gin-and-tonic-climate-change-b2772944.html#secret=68e90ef57fee1" title="How climate change could alter the flavour of your gin and tonic forever" data-secret="68e90ef57fee1" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 2840</div></figure> 2841<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2842<!-- YARPP List --> 2843<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2844<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2845<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 2846<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-2025-election-and-its-aftermath/" rel="bookmark" title="Germany’s 2025 election and its aftermath">Germany’s 2025 election and its aftermath</a></li> 2847</ol> 2848</div> 2849]]></content> 2850 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/manosphere-religion-biopolitics-g-and-t/#comments" thr:count="2"/> 2851 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="2"/> 2852 <thr:total>2</thr:total> 2853 </entry> 2854 <entry> 2855 <author> 2856 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2857 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2858 </author> 2859 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Germany’s 2025 election and its aftermath]]></title> 2860 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-2025-election-and-its-aftermath/" /> 2861 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32802</id> 2862 <updated>2025-06-19T16:59:50+02:00</updated> 2863 <published>2025-06-19T16:59:44+02:00</published> 2864 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="talks" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="elections" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Germany's 2025 early election was a political earthquake. How did we end up in this mess, and what does it mean for Germany and Europe? Here is my attempt at an answer. <div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2865<!-- YARPP List --> 2866<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2867<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/" rel="bookmark" title="May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography">May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography</a></li> 2868<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 2869<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/demokratische-einstellungen-in-der-tuerkei/" rel="bookmark" title="Ein Märchen aus tausend und einer Nacht? Kommentar zu dem Artikel von Frederike Wuermelings “PaÃt die Türkei zur EU und die EU zu Europa?”">Ein Märchen aus tausend und einer Nacht? Kommentar zu dem Artikel von Frederike Wuermelings “PaÃt die Türkei zur EU und die EU zu Europa?”</a></li> 2870</ol> 2871</div> 2872]]></summary> 2873 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-2025-election-and-its-aftermath/"><![CDATA[ 2874<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The collapse of Germany’s progressive ‘traffic light coalition’ in November 2024 triggered a snap election on February 23rd, 2025. Its outcome was a shock, but no surprise. The far-right <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/alternative-for-germany-voters/">Alternative for Germany</a> (<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/an-alternative-for-germany/">AfD</a>) doubled its vote share to 21%, and the far-left Linke party also experienced a surge in support. Conversely, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), Germany’s (former) mainstream parties, achieved their worst and second-worst post-war results respectively, creating considerable challenges for forming a stable government.</p> 2875 2876 2877 2878<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="811" height="609" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-1.jpg" alt="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 35" class="wp-image-32806" title="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 56" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-1.jpg 811w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-1-
2878768x577.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Talking about German Politics in Athens </figcaption></figure> 2879 2880 2881 2882<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Given the ongoing economic and geopolitical pressures facing Europe, Germany’s traditional role as a pillar of stability has been called into question by the election. Understandably, this worries folks across the continent. And so the good people at <a href="https://polhist.panteion.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=662:vassiliki-georgiadou&catid=147:eaching-research-staff&lang=en&Itemid=687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Panteion</a> and National universities in Athens, the <a href="https://athens.fes.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s office in Greece</a> and the <a href="https://www.hpsa.gr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hellenic Political Science Association</a> decided to organise an event focusing on the mess in Germany <em>and</em> were kind enough to invite me as a speaker.</p> 2883 2884 2885 2886<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="832" height="832" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-3.jpg" alt="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 36" class="wp-image-32807" title="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 57" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-3.jpg 832w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-3-120x120.jpg 120w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://www.7os.gr/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evdomos</a> is a fantastic space above the roofs of Athens. Even if the topic was hardly uplifting, discussing democracy and demagogues right under the Acropolis is unforgettable.</figcaption></figure> 2887 2888 2889 2890<p class="wp-block-paragraph">What did I tell them? You can see for yourself. Here are my slides (PDF):</p> 2891 2892 2893 2894<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/german-election-2025-afd.pdf" target="_blank" rel=" noreferrer noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="945" height="531" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/german-election-2025-afd-0.jpg" alt="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 37" class="wp-image-32803" title="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 58" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/german-election-2025-afd-0.jpg 945w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/german-election-2025-afd-0-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/german-election-2025-afd-0-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Slides for my talk about the 2025 election in Germany. Opens in a new tab.</figcaption></figure> 2895 2896 2897 2898<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the end, it was a slightly exhausting (think Athens in summer) but wonderful evening.</p> 2899 2900 2901 2902<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="828" height="1234" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-4-fes.jpg" alt="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 38" class="wp-image-32808" title="Germany's 2025 election and its aftermath 59" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-4-fes.jpg 828w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-4-fes-201x300.jpg 201w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-german-election-talk-4-fes-768x1145.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Last and by no means least, a huge thank you to the <a href="https://athens.fes.de/ueber-uns/team-und-kontakt/page-1.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://athens.fes.de/ueber-uns/team-und-kontakt/page-1.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wonderful team of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s office in Athens</a> and their director Regine Schubert. </figcaption></figure> 2903<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2904<!-- YARPP List --> 2905<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2906<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/" rel="bookmark" title="May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography">May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography</a></li> 2907<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 2908<li>
2908<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/demokratische-einstellungen-in-der-tuerkei/" rel="bookmark" title="Ein Märchen aus tausend und einer Nacht? Kommentar zu dem Artikel von Frederike Wuermelings “PaÃt die Türkei zur EU und die EU zu Europa?”">Ein Märchen aus tausend und einer Nacht? Kommentar zu dem Artikel von Frederike Wuermelings “PaÃt die Türkei zur EU und die EU zu Europa?”</a></li> 2909</ol> 2910</div> 2911]]></content> 2912 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-2025-election-and-its-aftermath/#comments" thr:count="9"/> 2913 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="9"/> 2914 <thr:total>9</thr:total> 2915 </entry> 2916 <entry> 2917 <author> 2918 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 2919 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 2920 </author> 2921 <title type="html"><![CDATA[May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography]]></title> 2922 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/" /> 2923 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32778</id> 2924 <updated>2025-05-30T10:12:59+02:00</updated> 2925 <published>2025-05-15T21:10:00+02:00</published> 2926 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="bibliography" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="video" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Life is full of unforeseen, yet entirely predictable obstacles: over-committing, over-optimism, and yes, occasionally, over-indulgence. As a result, this year’s spring edition of the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right (in (Western) Europe)⢠is late, but here it comes. With 180 new titles, this is the second-biggest update ever, which just goes to show ... <a title="May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/" aria-label="Read more about May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 2927<!-- YARPP List --> 2928<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 2929<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 2930<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 2931<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 2932</ol> 2933</div> 2934]]></summary> 2935 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/"><![CDATA[<p>Life is full of unforeseen, yet entirely predictable obstacles: over-committing, over-optimism, and yes, occasionally, over-indulgence. As a result, this year’s spring edition of the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/">Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right</a> (in (Western) Europe)<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="â¢" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> is late, but here it comes. With 180 new titles, this is the second-biggest update ever, which just goes to show that the field, like its subject, keeps growing.</p> 2936<p>Click on <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/">this link to browse</a> or <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography.bib">download the latest full version of the bibliography</a> in a format (BibTeX) that most reference managers will import. For long-time user of the bibliography, there is also an <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/xr-update-may-2025.bib">incremental update</a>
2936 that contains just the titles that have been added since April 2024.</p> 2937<div id="outline-container-org944d939" class="outline-2"> 2938<h2 id="org944d939">When and where was this new research on the radical right published?</h2> 2939<div id="text-org944d939" class="outline-text-2"> 2940<p>Roughly half of the new stuff was published in 2024, while about a quarter of it was only published in 2025, i.e. during the last four months. This is in line with what we saw last year and, like last year, a second clear departure from the long-term trend. The field is expanding rapidly, and this is reflected in the data.</p> 2941<p><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/"><img decoding="async" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/emImYgegVbo/hqdefault.jpg" alt="YouTube Video" title="May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography 63"></a><br /> <a href="https://youtu.be/emImYgegVbo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch this video on YouTube</a>.</p> 2942<p>The final quarter is made up by publications that I have missed in previous years â most of them still fairly current, but also two from 2010 (!): Chryssogelos’ article on the Radical Right’s cosy relationship with Russia and Peter Davies excellent review of the Front National/Rassemblement National’s Catholic roots.</p> 2943<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 2944<colgroup> 2945<col class="org-right" /> 2946<col class="org-right" /> </colgroup> 2947<thead> 2948<tr> 2949<th class="org-right" scope="col">Publication year</th> 2950<th class="org-right" scope="col">n</th> 2951</tr> 2952</thead> 2953<tbody> 2954<tr> 2955<td class="org-right">2024</td> 2956<td class="org-right">88</td> 2957</tr> 2958<tr> 2959<td class="org-right">2025</td> 2960<td class="org-right">42</td> 2961</tr> 2962<tr> 2963<td class="org-right">2023</td> 2964<td class="org-right">18</td> 2965</tr> 2966<tr> 2967<td class="org-right">2021</td> 2968<td class="org-right">11</td> 2969</tr> 2970<tr> 2971<td class="org-right">2020</td> 2972<td class="org-right">4</td> 2973</tr> 2974<tr> 2975<td class="org-right">2018</td> 2976<td class="org-right">4</td> 2977</tr> 2978<tr> 2979<td class="org-right">2022</td> 2980<td class="org-right">3</td> 2981</tr> 2982<tr> 2983<td class="org-right">2019</td> 2984<td class="org-right">2</td> 2985</tr> 2986<tr> 2987<td class="org-right">2010</td> 2988<td class="org-right">2</td> 2989</tr> 2990<tr> 2991<td class="org-right">2017</td> 2992<td class="org-right">1</td> 2993</tr> 2994</tbody> 2995</table> 2996<p> </p> 2997<p>166 of the 180 new entries are journal articles. Government and Opposition has lost its top spot to long-run champions West European Politics, Party Politics and European Journal of Political Research. European Political Science Review, which had two excellent years near the top, has dropped ten places. Go figure.</p> 2998<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 2999<colgroup> 3000<col class="org-left" /> 3001<col class="org-right" /> </colgroup> 3002<thead> 3003<tr> 3004<th class="org-left" scope="col">Journal</th> 3005<th class="org-right" scope="col">n</th> 3006</tr> 3007</thead> 3008<tbody> 3009<tr> 3010<td class="org-left">West European Politics</td> 3011<td class="org-right">12</td> 3012</tr> 3013<tr> 3014<td class="org-left">Party Politics</td> 3015<td class="org-right">10</td> 3016</tr> 3017<tr> 3018<td class="org-left">European Journal of Political Research</td> 3019<td class="org-right">8</td> 3020</tr> 3021<tr> 3022<td class="org-left">British Journal of Political Science</td> 3023<td class="org-right">7</td> 3024</tr> 3025<tr> 3026<td class="org-left">Government and Opposition</td> 3027<td class="org-right">6</td> 3028</tr> 3029<tr> 3030<td class="org-left">Political Studies</td> 3031<td class="org-right">6</td> 3032</tr> 3033<tr> 3034<td class="org-left">Comparative Political Studies</td> 3035<td class="org-right">5</td> 3036</tr> 3037<tr> 3038<td class="org-left">Electoral Studies</td> 3039<td class="org-right">5</td> 3040</tr> 3041<tr> 3042<td class="org-left">German Politics</td> 3043<td class="org-right">5</td> 3044</tr> 3045<tr> 3046<td class="org-left">Journal of European Public Policy</td> 3047<td class="org-right">5</td> 3048</tr> 3049<tr> 3050<td class="org-left">American Political Science Review</td> 3051<td class="org-right">4</td> 3052</tr> 3053<tr> 3054<td class="org-left">European Politics and Society</td> 3055<td class="org-right">4</td> 3056</tr> 3057<tr> 3058<td class="org-left">
3058Political Behavior</td> 3059<td class="org-right">4</td> 3060</tr> 3061<tr> 3062<td class="org-left">Comparative European Politics</td> 3063<td class="org-right">3</td> 3064</tr> 3065<tr> 3066<td class="org-left">European Political Science Review</td> 3067<td class="org-right">3</td> 3068</tr> 3069<tr> 3070<td class="org-left">International Sociology</td> 3071<td class="org-right">3</td> 3072</tr> 3073<tr> 3074<td class="org-left">Journal of Contemporary European Studies</td> 3075<td class="org-right">3</td> 3076</tr> 3077<tr> 3078<td class="org-left">Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties</td> 3079<td class="org-right">3</td> 3080</tr> 3081<tr> 3082<td class="org-left">Perspectives on Politics</td> 3083<td class="org-right">3</td> 3084</tr> 3085<tr> 3086<td class="org-left">Political Science Research and Methods</td> 3087<td class="org-right">3</td> 3088</tr> 3089<tr> 3090<td class="org-left">Scandinavian Political Studies</td> 3091<td class="org-right">3</td> 3092</tr> 3093<tr> 3094<td class="org-left">South European Society and Politics</td> 3095<td class="org-right">3</td> 3096</tr> 3097<tr> 3098<td class="org-left">Acta Politica</td> 3099<td class="org-right">2</td> 3100</tr> 3101</tbody> 3102</table> 3103<p> </p> 3104<p>Perhaps the most interesting development is that the British Journal of Political Science, one of the discipline’s top general journals, sits in fourth place with seven articles in this edition of the bibliography. This is a third of the <i>total</i> number of BJPS articles in the bibliography (20). Make of that what you want.</p> 3105</div> 3106</div> 3107<div id="outline-container-org8c1fe23" class="outline-2"> 3108<h2 id="org8c1fe23">What are the new topics in radical right research?</h2> 3109<div id="text-org8c1fe23" class="outline-text-2"> 3110<p>Like in past years, I have made word cloud (yes, I know) from the titles and abstracts. “party” is just as dominant as in previous years. So are “Europe/European”. “Support” is even more prominent than last year, and so is “Germany”. Sigh. Conversely, “Covid” and the pandemic have disappeared now.</p> 3111<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-32782 size-full" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cloud-may-2025-trimmed.png" alt="A wordcloud based on the 2025 update of the radical right bibliography. "Party" is the most important word." width="591" height="404" title="May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography 64" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cloud-may-2025-trimmed.png 591w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/cloud-may-2025-trimmed-300x205.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px" /></p> 3112<p>Because everyone is now using LLMs (aka the plagiarism machine) to analyse text, I gave it a shot, uploaded the update to perplexity, and asked it to identify the most important themes. The list it came up with is entirely plausible:</p> 3113<p><b>1) Economic Insecurity and Radical Right Support</b></p> 3114<p>Multiple studies link economic anxieties â such as rising rents, labour market changes, and regional economic decline â to support for radical right parties. For instance Abou-Chadi, Cohen, and Kurer (2024) show that rental market volatility in Germany correlates with increased radical right voting among lower-income urban residents. Three articles discuss the role of <i>emigration</i>, which seems to be linked to democratic erosion and rising nativism.</p> 3115<p><b>2) Cultural Backlash and Identity Politics</b></p> 3116<p>This never gets old, no?</p> 3117<p><b>3) Leadership and Party Strategy</b></p> 3118<p>Older folks may remember the 1990s obsession with allegedly charismatic leaders. Thankfully, this is over, but there seems to be a renewed interest in how supply-side factors including the perceived traits of radical right may influence voter preferences. Other studies examine how parties use rhetoric to appeal to specific demographics.</p> 3119<p><b>4) Subnational Variation</b></p> 3120<p>I have a long-standing interest in subnational factors linked to radical right success, so I’m happy to see that this mini-trend is still going strong.</p> 3121</div> 3122</div> 3123<div id="outline-container-org6211063" class="outline-2"> 3124<h2 id="org6211063">Who wrote this stuff?</h2> 3125<div id="text-org6211063" class="outline-text-2"> 3126<p>
3126While most authors have contributed just one or two works to the new release, a dirty dozen (many of them household names) stand out for their notably higher level of activity.</p> 3127<table border="2" frame="hsides" rules="groups" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> 3128<colgroup> 3129<col class="org-left" /> 3130<col class="org-right" /> </colgroup> 3131<thead> 3132<tr> 3133<th class="org-left" scope="col">Author</th> 3134<th class="org-right" scope="col">Titles</th> 3135</tr> 3136</thead> 3137<tbody> 3138<tr> 3139<td class="org-left">Duncan McDonnell</td> 3140<td class="org-right">7</td> 3141</tr> 3142<tr> 3143<td class="org-left">Annika Werner</td> 3144<td class="org-right">4</td> 3145</tr> 3146<tr> 3147<td class="org-left">Mattia Zulianello</td> 3148<td class="org-right">4</td> 3149</tr> 3150<tr> 3151<td class="org-left">Andrea L. P. Pirro</td> 3152<td class="org-right">3</td> 3153</tr> 3154<tr> 3155<td class="org-left">Gilles Ivaldi</td> 3156<td class="org-right">3</td> 3157</tr> 3158<tr> 3159<td class="org-left">Kai Arzheimer</td> 3160<td class="org-right">3</td> 3161</tr> 3162<tr> 3163<td class="org-left">Luca Carrieri</td> 3164<td class="org-right">3</td> 3165</tr> 3166<tr> 3167<td class="org-left">Manès Weisskircher</td> 3168<td class="org-right">3</td> 3169</tr> 3170<tr> 3171<td class="org-left">Natasza StyczyÅska</td> 3172<td class="org-right">3</td> 3173</tr> 3174<tr> 3175<td class="org-left">Philip Rathgeb</td> 3176<td class="org-right">3</td> 3177</tr> 3178<tr> 3179<td class="org-left">Reinhard Heinisch</td> 3180<td class="org-right">3</td> 3181</tr> 3182<tr> 3183<td class="org-left">Sara B. Hobolt</td> 3184<td class="org-right">3</td> 3185</tr> 3186</tbody> 3187</table> 3188<p> </p> 3189<p>However, these numbers fluctuate quite a bit from year to year, not least because I sometimes come across an edited volume or a collection of articles a year or two after which it was published. Which brings me to a more general point: If you are aware of research that would be a valuable addition to this bibliography, I would be very interested to hear from you. Please feel free to suggest your own work as well-self-nominations are most welcome.</p> 3190</div> 3191</div> 3192<div id="outline-container-org6f6d50c" class="outline-2"> 3193<h2 id="org6f6d50c">(Assumed) gender of radical right researchers</h2> 3194<div id="text-org6f6d50c" class="outline-text-2"> 3195<p>Because people do sometimes not use initials consistently (and because I am a lousy programmer) the figure may not be completely accurate, but there seem to be 291 unique authors in this update. Like in previous years, I have tried to algorithmically infer their gender, which is a notoriously messy business, particularly for non-European names.</p> 3196<p>201 names are classified as male, and 90 as female, which amounts to a ratio that is even worse than in the two previous years (34 and 37 per cent). This does not account for the number of publications someone is involved in, but either way, the overall picture is not good. But at least the perennial Michael seems to be gone.</p> 3197<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32783" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/radical-right-names-2025.png" alt="A visualisation of author names, colour-coded by assumed gender" width="1920" height="949" title="May is the new April: the Spring 2025 update of the radical right bibliography 65" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/radical-right-names-2025.png 1920w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/radical-right-names-2025-300x148.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/radical-right-names-2025-1200x593.png 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/radical-right-names-2025-768x380.png 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/radical-right-names-2025-1536x759.png 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100v
3197w, 1920px" /></p> 3198<div id="orgbf90f9b" class="figure"> 3199<p> </p> 3200</div> 3201</div> 3202</div> 3203<div id="outline-container-org16901b4" class="outline-2"> 3204<h2 id="org16901b4">Show us the latest titles in radical right research</h2> 3205<div id="text-org16901b4" class="outline-text-2"></div> 3206<p>Here is a full list of all that is new in the bibliography. Click here to <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/xr-update-may-2025.bib">download/import these new titles</a> into your reference management software. 3207</div> 3208<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3209<!-- YARPP List --> 3210<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3211<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/rise-illiberal-democracy-1997/" rel="bookmark" title="The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997">The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997</a></li> 3212<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/protest-neo-liberalism-anti-immigrant-sentiment-extreme-right/" rel="bookmark" title="Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?">Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?</a></li> 3213<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 3214</ol> 3215</div> 3216]]></content> 3217 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/may-is-the-new-april-the-spring-2025-update-of-the-radical-right-bibliography/#comments" thr:count="50"/> 3218 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="50"/> 3219 <thr:total>50</thr:total> 3220 </entry> 3221 <entry> 3222 <author> 3223 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3224 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3225 </author> 3226 <title type="html"><![CDATA[I Can’t Believe It’s Not B̶u̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ Academic Spam]]></title> 3227 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/i-cant-believe-its-not-b%cc%b6u%cc%b6t%cc%b6t%cc%b6e%cc%b6r%cc%b6-academic-spam/" /> 3228 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32765</id> 3229 <updated>2025-05-12T09:59:07+02:00</updated> 3230 <published>2025-05-12T09:56:58+02:00</published> 3231 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="fun" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I get a lot of Academic Spam. Is this the next level?<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3232<!-- YARPP List --> 3233<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3234<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/seymour-martin-lipset-wrote-about-the-radical-right-in-1955/" rel="bookmark" title="Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955">Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955</a></li> 3235<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 3236<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/italy-the-uk-sweden-and-russia-paying-for-afd-flights-four-european-crisis-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked">Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked</a></li> 3237</ol> 3238</div> 3239]]></summary> 3240 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/i-cant-believe-its-not-b%cc%b6u%cc%b6t%cc%b6t%cc%b6e%cc%b6r%cc%b6-academic-spam/"><![CDATA[ 3241<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I get a lot of Academic Spam. I mean, <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/tag/fun/">like a lot</a>. Dodgy conference invites, pay-to-publish in fields far removed from any expertise I may or may not have: you name it. But this missive is confusing, because of mixed signals. </p> 3242 3243 3244 3245<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So a) it’s a journal that I have never heard of, b) with a title that I would not associate with political science/social science content. Also, c) it is indexed in Food Science and Technology Abstracts and d) ‘highest-quality publication’ is a surefire low-quality indicator.</p> 3246 3247 3248 3249<p class="wp-block-paragraph">But e) the topic of the manuscript is not entirely removed from the realm of stuff that I <em>could</em> reasonably review. And f) (and it pains me to admit that this is the strongest signal of them all), it is published by Springer, and the email came from a genuine Springer address, which is literally the only thing that stopped me / my mail filters from deleting it right away. Obviously, I clicked on the ‘decline’ link instead.</p> 3250 3251 3252 3253<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="919" height="665" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/carbon.png" alt="Invitation to review "Estimating carbon footprint of paper, Internet and machine voting" 3254 3255Dear Dr Arzheimer, 3256 3257We have received a manuscript for Discover Applied Sciences that we think falls within your area of expertise. Our reviewers are integral to ensuring we have the highest-quality publication. 3258 3259We would greatly appreciate it if you could let us know if you are available to review by accepting or declining the invitation link below. 3260 3261Title: Estimating carbon footprint of paper, Internet and machine voting 3262 3263Abstract: This paper compares the carbon footprint of paper voting in polling stations with the emissions of remote vote casting via Internet and emissions of machine voting. We identify the process steps with the most significant emissions in terms of CO2 equivalent, design a methodology to quantify these emissions and give a comparative analysis based on the example of the Estonian and Bulgarian parliamentary elections of 2023. We have only taken into account the processes relevant to specific voting methods, and left general processes (like candidate registration, informing the voters about elections, final tallying, etc.) out of the scope of this research. Our results show that paper voting-specific processes have about 200 times higher carbon footprint compared to those of Internet voting, owing largely to the need to transport the voters to the polling stations and back. In case of machine voting, the same voter transportation need dominates the total emission, followed by the ecological footprint of producing the machines and the emissions of rans
3263porting the machines within Bulgaria." class="wp-image-32766" title="I Can't Believe It's Not B̶u̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ Academic Spam 66" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/carbon.png 919w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/carbon-300x217.png 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/carbon-768x556.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">From the desk of … </figcaption></figure> 3264 3265 3266 3267<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 3268<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3269<!-- YARPP List --> 3270<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3271<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/seymour-martin-lipset-wrote-about-the-radical-right-in-1955/" rel="bookmark" title="Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955">Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955</a></li> 3272<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 3273<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/italy-the-uk-sweden-and-russia-paying-for-afd-flights-four-european-crisis-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked">Italy, the UK, Sweden, and Russia paying for AfD flights: four European crisis links I liked</a></li> 3274</ol> 3275</div> 3276]]></content> 3277 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/i-cant-believe-its-not-b%cc%b6u%cc%b6t%cc%b6t%cc%b6e%cc%b6r%cc%b6-academic-spam/#comments" thr:count="19"/> 3278 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="19"/> 3279 <thr:total>19</thr:total> 3280 </entry> 3281 <entry> 3282 <author> 3283 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3284 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3285 </author> 3286 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955]]></title> 3287 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/seymour-martin-lipset-wrote-about-the-radical-right-in-1955/" /> 3288 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32759</id> 3289 <updated>2025-05-08T16:53:47+02:00</updated> 3290 <published>2025-05-10T13:41:00+02:00</published> 3291 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[In this house, every day is S.M. Lipset Appreciation Day. Most of what we do and think today is not much more than an elaboration of the old stuff, plus some new data and fancy methods. And still, I took some sort of mental double take when I stumbled across this article. Somewhat depressingly, he ... <a title="Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/seymour-martin-lipset-wrote-about-the-radical-right-in-1955/" aria-label="Read more about Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right – in 1955">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3292<!-- YARPP List --> 3293<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3294<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 3295<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-deutschlandfunk-kultur-zur-kanzlerwahl-von-friedrich-merz/" rel="bookmark" title="Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zur Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz">Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zur Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz</a></li> 3296<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 3297</ol> 3298</div> 3299]]></summary> 3300 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/seymour-martin-lipset-wrote-about-the-radical-right-in-1955/"><![CDATA[ 3301<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In this house, every day is S.M. Lipset Appreciation Day. Most of what we do and think today is not much more than an elaboration of the old stuff, plus some new data and fancy methods.</p> 3302 3303 3304 3305<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And still, I took some sort of mental double take when I stumbled across this article. Somewhat depressingly, he wrote (or at least published) these words almost exactly 70 years ago, in June 1955. </p> 3306 3307 3308 3309<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="827" height="1017" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lipset-radical-right.png" alt="This essay deals with the emergence and activities of an important 3310| American political phenomenon, the radical right. [I] This group, which 3311v is characterized as radical because it desires to make far-reaching 3312changes in American institutions, is basically concerned with eliminating from 3313American political life those persons and institutions which threaten either 3314its sense of traditional American values, or economic interests. In general, it 3315is opposed to the social and economic reforms that have been enacted in the 3316last twenty years, and to the internationalist pro-British foreign policy pursued 3317in that period. 3318The activities of the radical right would be of little interest, except to 3319students or practitioners of politics, if it sought to achieve its ends through 3320the traditional democratic procedures of pressure-group tactics, lobbying, and 3321action at the ballot box. In fact, however, while most individuals and 3322organizations which should be considered part of the radical right do limit 3323their activities to these means, some use undemocratic methods as well. It 3324is a fact that radical right agitation has facilitated the growth of practices 3325which threaten to undermine the social fabric of democratic politics; this 3326movement, therefore, must be seriously considered by all those who would 3327preserve democratic constitutional procedures in this country. The threats 3328to democratic procedure which are, in part, an outgrowth of radical right 3329agitation have been documented in great detail by many observers, and it is 3330not necessary to repeat them here. In brief, they involve attempts to destroy 3331the right of assembly, the right of petition, the freedom of association, the 3332freedom to travel, and the freedom to teach or conduct scholarly research 3333without conforming to political tests.[2]" class="wp-image-32761" title="Seymour Martin Lipset wrote about the Radical Right - in 1955 67" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lipset-radical-right.png 827w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lipset-radical-right-244x300.png 244w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/lipset-radical-right-768x944.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 827px) 100v
3333w, 827px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">British Journal of Sociology, June 1955, page 176</figcaption></figure> 3334<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3335<!-- YARPP List --> 3336<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3337<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/brexit-what-i-learned-from-watching-bbc-news-for-48-hours-straight/" rel="bookmark" title="Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight">Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight</a></li> 3338<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-deutschlandfunk-kultur-zur-kanzlerwahl-von-friedrich-merz/" rel="bookmark" title="Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zur Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz">Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zur Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz</a></li> 3339<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-bibliography-updated-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Extreme Right Bibliography Updated">Extreme Right Bibliography Updated</a></li> 3340</ol> 3341</div> 3342]]></content> 3343 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/seymour-martin-lipset-wrote-about-the-radical-right-in-1955/#comments" thr:count="40"/> 3344 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="40"/> 3345 <thr:total>40</thr:total> 3346 </entry> 3347 <entry> 3348 <author> 3349 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3350 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3351 </author> 3352 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zur Kanzlerwahl von Friedrich Merz]]></title> 3353 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-deutschlandfunk-kultur-zur-kanzlerwahl-von-friedrich-merz/" /> 3354 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32754</id> 3355 <updated>2025-07-03T16:02:40+02:00</updated> 3356 <published>2025-05-06T23:18:40+02:00</published> 3357 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Die Ereignisse im Bundestag heute waren spannend, aber was sagen sie über die Erfolgsaussichten der neuen Regierung aus? Ich glaube: nicht allzu viel ð»ðð¼<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3358<!-- YARPP List --> 3359<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3360<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3361<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 3362<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 3363</ol> 3364</div> 3365]]></summary> 3366 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-deutschlandfunk-kultur-zur-kanzlerwahl-von-friedrich-merz/"><![CDATA[ 3367<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Die Ereignisse im Bundestag heute waren spannend, aber was sagen sie über die Erfolgsaussichten der neuen Regierung aus? Ich glaube: nicht allzu viel <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f4fb.png" alt="ð»" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f447-1f3fc.png" alt="ðð¼" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p> 3368 3369 3370 3371<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-deutschlandfunk-kultur wp-block-embed-deutschlandfunk-kultur"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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3372<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/affront-gegen-merz-im-ersten-wahlgang-nur-ein-daempfer-fuer-schwarz-rot-100.html#secret=68e90ef6813de" title="Affront gegen Merz im ersten Wahlgang: Nur ein Dämpfer für Schwarz-Rot?" data-secret="68e90ef6813de" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3373</div></figure> 3374 3375 3376<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3377<!-- YARPP List --> 3378<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3379<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3380<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 3381<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 3382</ol> 3383</div> 3384]]></content> 3385 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/interview-mit-deutschlandfunk-kultur-zur-kanzlerwahl-von-friedrich-merz/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 3386 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 3387 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 3388 </entry> 3389 <entry> 3390 <author> 3391 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3392 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3393 </author> 3394 <title type="html"><![CDATA[What should we expect from Germany’s incoming not-so-grand coalition?]]></title> 3395 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-should-we-expect-from-germanys-incoming-not-so-grand-coalition/" /> 3396 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32725</id> 3397 <updated>2025-04-22T20:20:11+02:00</updated> 3398 <published>2025-04-22T10:29:45+02:00</published> 3399 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="btw25" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Not too much, probably. Still, I talked at length with Linda Mannheim about the fallout from the latest German election. Here is the result. In other news, I love it when journalists ask me to keep in mind that they are writing for an American audience. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/germany-grand-coalition-government<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3400<!-- YARPP List --> 3401<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3402<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/three-bluesky-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Three Bluesky links I liked">Three Bluesky links I liked</a></li> 3403<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 3404<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/behold-a-1970s-social-networking-site/" rel="bookmark" title="Behold a 1970s social networking site">Behold a 1970s social networking site</a></li> 3405</ol> 3406</div> 3407]]></summary> 3408 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-should-we-expect-from-germanys-incoming-not-so-grand-coalition/"><![CDATA[ 3409<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Not too much, probably. Still, I talked at length with Linda Mannheim about the fallout from the latest German election. Here is the result. In other news, I love it when journalists ask me to keep in mind that they are writing for an American audience.</p> 3410 3411 3412 3413<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/germany-grand-coalition-government" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.thenation.com/article/world/germany-grand-coalition-government</a></p> 3414<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3415<!-- YARPP List --> 3416<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3417<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/three-bluesky-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Three Bluesky links I liked">Three Bluesky links I liked</a></li> 3418<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 3419<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/behold-a-1970s-social-networking-site/" rel="bookmark" title="Behold a 1970s social networking site">Behold a 1970s social networking site</a></li> 3420</ol> 3421</div> 3422]]></content> 3423 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-should-we-expect-from-germanys-incoming-not-so-grand-coalition/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 3424 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 3425 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 3426 </entry> 3427 <entry> 3428 <author> 3429 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3430 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3431 </author> 3432 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Behold a 1970s social networking site]]></title> 3433 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/behold-a-1970s-social-networking-site/" /> 3434 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32715</id> 3435 <updated>2025-04-20T19:34:30+02:00</updated> 3436 <published>2025-04-20T19:34:25+02:00</published> 3437 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Links" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="social media" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This, my young friends, is a (West German) coin-operated payphone. Like cigarette and bubble gum vending machines, they were ubiquitous during my youth. Now, this is literally a museum piece, which I spotted in Frankfurt a couple of days ago. Very rarely, people forgot to collect the coins that remained when they ended their call. ... <a title="Behold a 1970s social networking site" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/behold-a-1970s-social-networking-site/" aria-label="Read more about Behold a 1970s social networking site">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3438<!-- YARPP List --> 3439<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3440<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gastkommentar-im-handelsblatt-was-deutsc
3440hland-von-anderen-landern-lernen-konnte/" rel="bookmark" title="Gastkommentar im Handelsblatt: Was Deutschland in Sachen AfD von anderen Ländern lernen könnte">Gastkommentar im Handelsblatt: Was Deutschland in Sachen AfD von anderen Ländern lernen könnte</a></li> 3441<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3442<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/nine-new-polls-say-merkel-will-still-chancellor-october/" rel="bookmark" title="Nine New Polls Say Merkel Will Still Be Chancellor in October">Nine New Polls Say Merkel Will Still Be Chancellor in October</a></li> 3443</ol> 3444</div> 3445]]></summary> 3446 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/behold-a-1970s-social-networking-site/"><![CDATA[ 3447<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This, my young friends, is a (West German) coin-operated payphone. Like cigarette and bubble gum vending machines, they were ubiquitous during my youth. Now, this is literally a museum piece, which I spotted in Frankfurt a couple of days ago.</p> 3448 3449 3450 3451<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="750" height="1000" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/muenzfernsprecher.jpg" alt="The image shows a vintage public payphone mounted on a yellow wall. The payphone is black with a textured surface and features a rotary dial with numbers 0 to 9, a handset on the left, and a coin slot at the top. The coin slot has labels for "10 Pf," "50 Pf," and "1 DM." A label on the front reads "Inlandsgeräde" and includes instructions for making calls, with a note to press "118" for the police. Below the dial, there is a slot for inserting coins and a button labeled "Rest" with "Pl" next to it. A small rectangular button is located at the bottom. To the right of the payphone, there is a sign with a telephone icon and the text "Hörer abheben und Ansage anhören!" (Pick up the receiver and listen to the announcement!). The background includes a window with a grid pattern, allowing some light to enter." class="wp-image-32714" title="Behold a 1970s social networking site 68" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/muenzfernsprecher.jpg 750w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/muenzfernsprecher-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" /></figure> 3452 3453 3454 3455<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Very rarely, people forgot to collect the coins that remained when they ended their call. Out of a decade-old habit, I had to check the solid metal flap. There was nothing behind it, of course, but I was rewarded with a very familiar and satisfying clunk when I let it go.</p> 3456 3457 3458 3459<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Payphones were typically installed in bright yellow boxes that stood at street corners. I can still remember the old-paper smell the phone books gave off during the summer months. Occasionally, there would be worse smells.</p> 3460 3461 3462 3463<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 3464<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3465<!-- YARPP List --> 3466<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3467<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gastkommentar-im-handelsblatt-was-deutschland-von-anderen-landern-lernen-konnte/" rel="bookmark" title="Gastkommentar im Handelsblatt: Was Deutschland in Sachen AfD von anderen Ländern lernen könnte">Gastkommentar im Handelsblatt: Was Deutschland in Sachen AfD von anderen Ländern lernen könnte</a></li> 3468<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3469<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/nine-new-polls-say-merkel-will-still-chancellor-october/" rel="bookmark" title="Nine New Polls Say Merkel Will Still Be Chancellor in October">Nine New Polls Say Merkel Will Still Be Chancellor in October</a></li> 3470</ol> 3471</div> 3472]]></content> 3473 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/behold-a-1970s-social-networking-site/#comments" thr:count="7"/> 3474 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="7"/> 3475 <thr:total>7</thr:total> 3476 </entry> 3477 <entry> 3478 <author> 3479 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3480 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3481 </author> 3482 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Gastkommentar im Handelsblatt: Was Deutschland in Sachen AfD von anderen Ländern lernen könnte]]></title> 3483 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gastkommentar-im-handelsblatt-was-deutsc
3483hland-von-anderen-landern-lernen-konnte/" /> 3484 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32698</id> 3485 <updated>2025-03-06T12:22:34+01:00</updated> 3486 <published>2025-03-06T12:21:40+01:00</published> 3487 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="extreme right" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Was bedeutet der AfD-Erfolg, und wie sollte man damit (nicht) umgehen?<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3488<!-- YARPP List --> 3489<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3490<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3491<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 3492<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 3493</ol> 3494</div> 3495]]></summary> 3496 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gastkommentar-im-handelsblatt-was-deutschland-von-anderen-landern-lernen-konnte/"><![CDATA[ 3497<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Was bedeutet der AfD-Erfolg, und wie sollte man damit (nicht) umgehen? Für das Handelsblatt habe ich ein paar Ideen dazu aufgeschrieben. Der Artikel ist manchmal hinter der Paywall, manchmal auch nicht. Alternativ dazu gibt es immer <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-germany-can-learn-from-others-in-dealing-with-the-afd/" data-type="post" data-id="32688">ohne Paywall hier die nicht sehr elegante maschinelle Ãbersetzung einer früheren Version</a>. </p> 3498 3499 3500 3501<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-www-handelsblatt-com wp-block-embed-www-handelsblatt-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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Its success stems from mobilizing non-voters, attracting disaffected voters from other parties, and exploiting migration fears. Despite this, its extremist stance remains polarizing. Germany's democratic parties still have a chance to stem the tide, but they must act now.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3528<!-- YARPP List --> 3529<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3530<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/29481-2/" rel="bookmark" title="29481"></a></li> 3531<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 3532<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 3533</ol> 3534</div> 3535]]></summary> 3536 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-germany-can-learn-from-others-in-dealing-with-the-afd/"><![CDATA[ 3537<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the federal election on 23 February, the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/an-alternative-for-germany/">AfD</a> was able to double its share of second votes with a significant increase in voter turnout. The results in the east are particularly spectacular. The party achieved more than 30 per cent of the second votes in all eastern German states. In Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the respective state average was between 37 and almost 39 per cent and in the absolute strongholds even between 43 and 47 per cent of voters voted for the AfD.</p> 3538 3539 3540 3541<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Nevertheless, the electoral maps, on which the former GDR appears in blue and the old Federal Republic including Berlin essentially in black and red, are misleading in several respects. Firstly, although the five eastern German states are large, they are sparsely populated and their populations are shrinking. Only one sixth of the electorate currently lives there. This does not change the fact that the AfD has achieved a hegemonic position in large parts of the former GDR, but it does mean that only roughly a quarter of AfD votes come from there.</p> 3542 3543 3544 3545<p class="has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph">Secondly, the east’s share of the AfD result has actually shrunk (from a third in the 2021 election) because the party has made proportionally greater gains in the old west, coming from a much lower starting level. In all western German federal states, the AfD was able to double its 2021 result <em>at least</em>; in 15 western German constituencies, it now achieves results of more than 24.6%, the best eastern German state result (Saxony) of 2021. And thirdly, the shares are in some cases even significantly higher, especially in smaller western German municipalities. The AfD’s success in 2025 is therefore by no means a purely eastern German phenomenon.</p> 3546 3547 3548 3549<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>This is a machine translation of an op-ed I wrote </em><em>about the election</em> <em>for a German newspaper (Handelsblatt). The original article is here (but often paywalled):</em></p> 3550 3551 3552 3553<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-www-handelsblatt-com wp-block-embed-www-handelsblatt-com"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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3554<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/gastbeitraege/gastkommentar-was-deutschland-im-umgang-mit-der-afd-von-anderen-lernen-kann/100111025.html?utm_medium=sh&utm_campaign=teilen&utm_source=email&utm_term=web#secret=68e90ef6f3756" title="Handelsblatt" data-secret="68e90ef6f3756" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3555</div></figure> 3556 3557 3558 3559<p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to initial analyses, it was also possible because the party was able to mobilise former non-voters on a large scale and also win numerous votes from the CDU/CSU, FDP and SPD across Germany. The gains among young and first-time voters, a group in which the AfD has performed rather poorly in the past, are also noteworthy. It is now achieving at least average results there. It is striking that the party is particularly popular among young men, while it is clearly rejected by young women. However, this is largely in line with the picture in the population as a whole: as in the past, there are roughly two AfD voters for every female AfD voter. The election result therefore not only shows an east-west divide, but also one between the genders and one between those who are satisfied and those who feel left behind.</p> 3560 3561 3562 3563<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is because nothing has changed in the other socio-structural profile (more middle to low education, more members of the working or lower middle class) and the world view of AfD voters (migration as a threat, major concerns about the future). The strong gains can therefore be explained above all by the fact that, unlike in 2021, the issue of migration is once again relatively high on the agenda and was framed exclusively as a problem of internal security in the election campaign, right up to the left of the political spectrum. The CDU/CSU and FDP in particular have also helped to further normalise the AfD by adopting AfD demands and formulations and, most recently, by voting together in the Bundestag, thus making it more electable for more people.</p> 3564 3565 3566 3567<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="800" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/berlin-reichstag-flag-bundestag-germany-government-building-architecture-capital-policy-city-dome-german-bundestagswahl-stockpack-pixabay-1200x800.jpg" alt="berlin, reichstag, flag, bundestag, germany, government, building, architecture, capital, policy, city, dome, german, bundestagswahl, bundestag, bundestag, bundestag, bundestag, bundestag, bundestagswahl" class="wp-image-32694" title="What Germany can learn from others in dealing with the AfD 69" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/berlin-reichstag-flag-bundestag-germany-government-building-architecture-capital-policy-city-dome-german-bundestagswahl-stockpack-pixabay-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/berlin-reichstag-flag-bundestag-germany-government-building-architecture-capital-policy-city-dome-german-bundestagswahl-stockpack-pixabay-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/berlin-reichstag-flag-bundestag-germany-government-building-architecture-capital-policy-city-dome-german-bundestagswahl-stockpack-pixabay-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/berlin-reichstag-flag-bundestag-germany-government-building-architecture-capital-policy-city-dome-german-bundestagswahl-stockpack-pixabay.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100v
3567w, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Photo by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/simonschmid614?utm_source=Stockpack&utm_medium=referral" class="stockpack-author" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">simonschmid614</a> on <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/5778942?utm_source=Stockpack&utm_medium=referral" class="stockpack-provider" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pixabay</a></figcaption></figure> 3568 3569 3570 3571<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So, is Germany simply catching up with a development that began decades ago in our neighbouring countries (including Austria and the Netherlands)? Right-wing <em>radical</em> parties that oppose everything âforeignâ, but also liberal institutions such as the protection of minorities, the pluralistic media system or independent courts, have been able to celebrate success there since the 1990s. Unlike openly <em>extremist</em> right-wing actors, they are not calling for the complete abolition of democracy. Their long-term goal is not a classic dictatorship, but Victor Orbán’s âilliberal democracyâ: a system in which they have undermined democratic institutions to such an extent that they can rule permanently.</p> 3572 3573 3574 3575<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This is problematic enough in itself, but the AfD differs significantly from its sister parties abroad. The latter are increasingly endeavouring to adopt a more moderate stance in order to be electable for broader sections of the population and, for the same reason, shy away from overly obvious points of contact with right-wing extremism.</p> 3576 3577 3578 3579<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The AfD, on the other hand, is moving in the opposite direction. The völkisch-nationalist faction led by Björn Höcke has dominated the party since 2017 at the latest. It is considered to be definitely right-wing extremist, and the party as a whole is a right-wing extremist âsuspected caseâ – an assessment that has been confirmed by the courts several times. The AfD has even become too extreme for other far-right parties in the European Parliament. When plans for the âremigrationâ of insufficiently âassimilatedâ citizens became known a year ago and the lead candidate trivialised the Waffen SS at the end of the election campaign, they excluded the AfD from their parliamentary group. Such ideas are unacceptable even for Marine Le Pen and the other members of the âPatriotsâ group in the EP.</p> 3580 3581 3582 3583<p class="wp-block-paragraph">So how should the democratic parties in Germany react to the AfD’s electoral success? In neighbouring countries, the strategy of moving closer to the right-wing extremists in terms of words and content has made them the strongest force, and the bourgeois right has withered away. We can learn from these mistakes. Around three quarters of eligible voters still see the AfD as an extreme right-wing party that is unelectable for them. Germany’s democratic parties still have the opportunity to put their own issues – economic, social and environmental policy – back on the agenda instead of letting themselves be driven by the AfD into a competition for the most shrill slogans that they cannot win. The opportunity is there, but it must be seized <em>now</em>.</p> 3584<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3585<!-- YARPP List --> 3586<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3587<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/29481-2/" rel="bookmark" title="29481"></a></li> 3588<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 3589<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/" rel="bookmark" title="4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany">4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany</a></li> 3590</ol> 3591</div> 3592]]></content> 3593 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-germany-can-learn-from-others-in-dealing-with-the-afd/#comments" thr:count="76"/> 3594 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="76"/> 3595 <thr:total>76</thr:total> 3596 </entry> 3597 <entry> 3598 <author> 3599 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3600 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3601 </author> 3602 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Friday Fun]]></title> 3603 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/friday-fun/" /> 3604 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32677</id> 3605 <updated>2025-02-28T21:31:55+01:00</updated> 3606 <published>2025-02-28T21:03:35+01:00</published> 3607 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="Political Science" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="academia" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="academic writing" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have the rare privilege of a job with very flexible working conditions, and I always loved working from home. Pre-pandemic and post-nursery, I wouldn’t normally come in on more than three, maybe four days per week. However, the pandemic had a lasting effect on my working habits. I developed a strange longing for my ... <a title="Friday Fun" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/friday-fun/" aria-label="Read more about Friday Fun">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3608<!-- YARPP List --> 3609<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3610<li>
3610<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 3611<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/sports-cars-sleaze-gamma-rays-rhineland-palatinate-elects-firstred-green-government/" rel="bookmark" title="Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government">Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government</a></li> 3612<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/twenty-years-after-sozial-und-wirtschaftspolitische-einstellungen-von-ost-und-westdeutschen-im-vergleich/" rel="bookmark" title="Twenty Years After: Sozial- und wirtschaftspolitische Einstellungen von Ost- und Westdeutschen im Vergleich">Twenty Years After: Sozial- und wirtschaftspolitische Einstellungen von Ost- und Westdeutschen im Vergleich</a></li> 3613</ol> 3614</div> 3615]]></summary> 3616 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/friday-fun/"><![CDATA[ 3617<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I have the rare privilege of a job with very flexible working conditions, and I always loved working from home. Pre-pandemic and post-nursery, I wouldn’t normally come in on more than three, maybe four days per week.</p> 3618 3619 3620 3621<p class="wp-block-paragraph">However, the pandemic had a lasting effect on my working habits. I developed a strange longing for my office on campus. This isn’t (just) about seeing more of my colleagues; rather, my ability to work from home somehow suffered. There are just too many distractions, which was never a problem in the almost 30 years before. </p> 3622 3623 3624 3625<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And so, I developed the strange habit of coming in on Fridays, when nearly everyone else is working from home, particularly during the break. Having the whole department to myself on a Friday afternoon is an eerie luxury. It is very calming. Also, it reminds me of my PhD student days. As in playing Doom, naturally. </p> 3626 3627 3628 3629<figure class="wp-block-jetpack-image-compare"><div class="juxtapose" data-mode="horizontal"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" id="32678" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/931feb8a31136e61.jpg?ssl=1" alt="Friday Fun 39" width="1536" height="2048" class="image-compare__image-before" title="Friday Fun 70"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" id="32679" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/5ba5fe6fd9c765a0.jpg" alt="Friday Fun 40" width="1536" height="2048" class="image-compare__image-after" title="Friday Fun 71"></div><figcaption>It gets a little scary after dark</figcaption></figure> 3630 3631 3632 3633<p class="wp-block-paragraph">When I posted this on Mastodon, <a href="https://fediscience.org/@[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Drye</a> sent me back this image. Made me chuckle, but I also locked my door. </p> 3634 3635 3636 3637<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1200" height="1600" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/doom-1200x1600.jpg" alt="Friday Fun 41" class="wp-image-32680" title="Friday Fun 72" srcset="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/doom.jpg 1200w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/doom-225x300.jpg 225w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/doom-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,slow-connection-quality=30,onerror=redirect/https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/doom-1152x1536.jpg 1152w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">That’s enough, actually.</figcaption></figure> 3638 3639 3640 3641<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 3642<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3643<!-- YARPP List --> 3644<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3645<li>
3645<a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/deutsche-welle-on-the-afds-role-in-the-bundestag/" rel="bookmark" title="Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag">Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag</a></li> 3646<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/sports-cars-sleaze-gamma-rays-rhineland-palatinate-elects-firstred-green-government/" rel="bookmark" title="Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government">Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Green Government</a></li> 3647<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/twenty-years-after-sozial-und-wirtschaftspolitische-einstellungen-von-ost-und-westdeutschen-im-vergleich/" rel="bookmark" title="Twenty Years After: Sozial- und wirtschaftspolitische Einstellungen von Ost- und Westdeutschen im Vergleich">Twenty Years After: Sozial- und wirtschaftspolitische Einstellungen von Ost- und Westdeutschen im Vergleich</a></li> 3648</ol> 3649</div> 3650]]></content> 3651 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/friday-fun/#comments" thr:count="18"/> 3652 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="18"/> 3653 <thr:total>18</thr:total> 3654 </entry> 3655 <entry> 3656 <author> 3657 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3658 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3659 </author> 3660 <title type="html"><![CDATA[Was ist los in Kaiserslautern?]]></title> 3661 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/was-ist-los-in-kaiserslautern/" /> 3662 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32663</id> 3663 <updated>2025-02-26T23:44:31+01:00</updated> 3664 <published>2025-02-26T23:44:26+01:00</published> 3665 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="afd" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="elections" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Zunächst mit dem SWR und dann mit dem Deutschlandfunk habe ich über das relativ gute Abschneiden der AfD im Wahlkreis Kaiserslautern gesprochen. Der Artikel beim SWR hat mir die bislang originellste Beleidigung meiner Karriere eingebacht: meine Uni sei so schlecht, dass sie demnächst komplett aus dem Ranking fallen werde. Womit ich das verdient habe, kann ... <a title="Was ist los in Kaiserslautern?" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/was-ist-los-in-kaiserslautern/" aria-label="Read more about Was ist los in Kaiserslautern?">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3666<!-- YARPP List --> 3667<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3668<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 3669<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3670<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 3671</ol> 3672</div> 3673]]></summary> 3674 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/was-ist-los-in-kaiserslautern/"><![CDATA[ 3675<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Zunächst mit dem SWR und dann mit dem Deutschlandfunk habe ich über das relativ gute Abschneiden der <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/an-alternative-for-germany/">AfD</a> im Wahlkreis Kaiserslautern gesprochen. </p> 3676 3677 3678 3679<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Der Artikel beim SWR hat mir die bislang originellste Beleidigung meiner Karriere eingebacht: meine Uni sei so schlecht, dass sie demnächst komplett aus dem Ranking fallen werde. Womit ich das verdient habe, kann man hier nachlesen:</p> 3680 3681 3682 3683<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
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3683<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/bundestagswahl/bundestagswahl-afd-hochburg-in-kaiserslautern-gelsenkirchen-analyse-100.html#secret=68e90efc2f232" title="AfD räumt in Kaiserslautern und Gelsenkirchen ab - eine Analyse" data-secret="68e90efc2f232" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> </p> 3684 3685 3686 3687<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Das Gespräch mit dem Deutschlandfunk lässt sich hier nachhören:</p> 3688 3689 3690 3691<p class="wp-block-paragraph">
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3691<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/afd-hochburg-kaiserslautern-auch-der-westen-waehlt-blau-100.html#secret=68e90efc68f00" title="" data-secret="68e90efc68f00" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> </p> 3692 3693 3694 3695<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 3696<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3697<!-- YARPP List --> 3698<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3699<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/educated-trolls/" rel="bookmark" title="Educated trolls">Educated trolls</a></li> 3700<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/50-jahre-wahlen-in-rheinland-pfalz/" rel="bookmark" title="50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz">50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfalz</a></li> 3701<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/populismus-mit-allen-mitteln-gegen-das-establishment-zeit-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)">Populismus: Mit allen Mitteln gegen das Establishment (ZEIT ONLINE)</a></li> 3702</ol> 3703</div> 3704]]></content> 3705 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/was-ist-los-in-kaiserslautern/#comments" thr:count="0"/> 3706 <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="" thr:count="0"/> 3707 <thr:total>0</thr:total> 3708 </entry> 3709 <entry> 3710 <author> 3711 <name>Kai Arzheimer</name> 3712 <uri>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/</uri> 3713 </author> 3714 <title type="html"><![CDATA[I’m still going on about the bloody election (pero esta vez en español)]]></title> 3715 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-bloody-election-
3715pero-esta-vez-en-espanol/" /> 3716 <id>https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/?p=32642</id> 3717 <updated>2025-02-27T07:51:09+01:00</updated> 3718 <published>2025-02-26T17:31:40+01:00</published> 3719 <category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="media" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="elections" /><category scheme="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com" term="germany" /> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The internet is a strange place that can bring together people who never meet in real lifeâ¢. Case in point: me & Iberian journalists who want to talk about the election and (you guessed that right) the AfD. This time around, it was Marta Rey from Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, who wrote not one, not ... <a title="I’m still going on about the bloody election (pero esta vez en español)" class="read-more" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-bloody-election-pero-esta-vez-en-espanol/" aria-label="Read more about I’m still going on about the bloody election (pero esta vez en español)">Read more</a><div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3720<!-- YARPP List --> 3721<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3722<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gesprach-mit-dem-ndr-zur-lage-der-parteien-nach-der-bundestagswahl-2025/" rel="bookmark" title="Gespräch mit dem NDR zur Lage der Parteien nach der Bundestagswahl 2025">Gespräch mit dem NDR zur Lage der Parteien nach der Bundestagswahl 2025</a></li> 3723<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 3724<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 3725</ol> 3726</div> 3727]]></summary> 3728 <content type="html" xml:base="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-bloody-election-
3728pero-esta-vez-en-espanol/"><![CDATA[ 3729<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The internet is a strange place that can bring together people who never meet in real life<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="â¢" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />. Case in point: me & Iberian journalists who want to talk about the election and (you guessed that right) the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/research/an-alternative-for-germany/">AfD</a>. This time around, it was Marta Rey from Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, who wrote not one, not two, no: three articles at the day of and after the election, all quite good (thank you, Google Translate).</p> 3730 3731 3732 3733<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A portrait of <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/merz-women-problem/" data-type="post" data-id="32321">Friedrich Merz</a>:</p> 3734 3735 3736 3737<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rtve-es wp-block-embed-rtve-es"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
3738<script src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-content/plugins/embed-extended/assets/js/embed.js?ver=1.4.0"></script>
3738<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20250223/friedrich-merz-persistente-rival-sombra-merkel-encamina-gobernar-alemania/16447629.shtml#secret=68e90efcb7e6d" title="Friedrich Merz, el "persistente" rival a la sombra de Merkel que gobernará Alemania" data-secret="68e90efcb7e6d" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3739</div></figure> 3740 3741 3742 3743<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A review of the campaign and the result:</p> 3744 3745 3746 3747<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rtve-es wp-block-embed-rtve-es"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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3748<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20250223/fin-gobierno-scholz-migracion-ascenso-afd-claves-elecciones-alemania/16444277.shtml#secret=68e90efda41a5" title="El fin de la "coalición semáforo", la cuestión migratoria y el ascenso de la AfD: claves de las elecciones en Alemania" data-secret="68e90efda41a5" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3749</div></figure> 3750 3751 3752 3753<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The morning after the night before:</p> 3754 3755 3756 3757<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rtve-es wp-block-embed-rtve-es"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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3758<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20250224/negociar-gran-coalicion-gran-reto-merz-tras-comicios/16461440.shtml#secret=68e90efe63e9b" title="Negociar una gran coalición, el gran reto de Merz tras los comicios: "Formar Gobierno en dos meses serÃa todo un logro"" data-secret="68e90efe63e9b" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3759</div></figure> 3760 3761 3762 3763<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A few days earlier, I had spoken with Adrián Romero (also at RTVE) about Scholz, Merz, Ukraine, and the <a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/afd-russia/" data-type="post" data-id="31041">AfD’s and BSW’s</a> love for Russia. Here is his article:</p> 3764 3765 3766 3767<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rtve-es wp-block-embed-rtve-es"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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3768<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20250219/elecciones-alemania-promesas-incumplidas-scholz-ucrania/16426377.shtml#secret=68e90eff51fd8" title="Las promesas incumplidas de Scholz a Ucrania: el "giro" militar que nunca llegó" data-secret="68e90eff51fd8" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3769</div></figure> 3770 3771 3772 3773<p class="wp-block-paragraph">And because that is not nearly enough Spanish for three days, I also talked to IcÃar Gutierrez, who wrote a long story for El Diario about her encounters in AfD land. Somewhat surprisingly, a lot of what Paulina Fröhlich (of <a href="https://www.progressives-zentrum.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Das Progressive Zentrum</a> fame) and I told her made it into the final piece, which is again, quite good in my book.</p> 3774 3775 3776 3777<figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-eldiario-es wp-block-embed-eldiario-es"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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3778<iframe loading="lazy" class="ee-iframe" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/16022604/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=embed_extended_iframe&url=https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/votantes-propulsan-ultraderecha-alemania-mierda_1_12075029.html#secret=68e90eff93f75" title="Los votantes que propulsan a la ultraderecha en Alemania: âTodo es una mierda"" data-secret="68e90eff93f75" width="600" height="338" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" data-class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe> 3779</div></figure> 3780 3781 3782 3783<p class="wp-block-paragraph"></p> 3784<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'> 3785<!-- YARPP List --> 3786<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol> 3787<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gesprach-mit-dem-ndr-zur-lage-der-parteien-nach-der-bundestagswahl-2025/" rel="bookmark" title="Gespräch mit dem NDR zur Lage der Parteien nach der Bundestagswahl 2025">Gespräch mit dem NDR zur Lage der Parteien nach der Bundestagswahl 2025</a></li> 3788<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/four-far-right-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Four far-right links I liked">Four far-right links I liked</a></li> 3789<li><a href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/six-more-links-i-liked/" rel="bookmark" title="Six More Links I Liked">Six More Links I Liked</a></li> 3790</ol> 3791</div> 3792]]></content> 3793 <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/im-still-going-on-about-the-bloody-election-
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