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Kai Arzheimer

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Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism www.kai-arzheimer.com

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4h
I wouldn't wish this upon Derrida
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How Habermas and I went for a swim - kai arzheimer
I was always lousy with Theory™. I still am lousy, but thankfully, it does not matter so much anymore. To be fair, I'm OK with empirical theories. It's the
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Rhein-Main-Universitäten @rheinmainunis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎉 WIR HABEN ES GESCHAFFT: Die Allianz der #RheinMainUniversitäten (RMU) aus @goetheuni.bsky.social, @unimainz.bsky.social & @tuda.bsky.social wird ab 2027 im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie als #Exzellenzverbund gefördert: www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/news/rhein-m... @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 12h
'Sure, let's pop over, on the off chance that Hessian shops are open today'
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 12h
Nothing says 'German Unity™️' quite like those adolescents asking their elders whether our supposed national holiday is indeed observed in all federal states.
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Mainz University @mainzuniversity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎉 WE MADE IT – The @rheinmainunis.bsky.social alliance of #GoetheUni & #MainzUniversity & #TUDarmstadt will receive funding in the #ExcellenceStrategy of the German federal and state governments 👉 www.rhein-main-universitaeten.de/en/news/rhin... @dfg.de @wissenschaftsrat.de
RMU-EXCITE – Excellent. Collaborative. Transformative. (photo/©: Laura Trümper / RMU)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 02/10/2026
#tbp: "However, the situation is more complicated for the #AfD than it would appear at first glance." #Russia
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To Russia with love? German populist actors’ positions vis-a-vis the Kremlin - ECPS
Arzheimer, Kai. (2023). “To Russia with love? German populist actors’ positions vis-a-vis the Kremlin.” In: The Impacts of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026
early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 02/10/2026
There's a new term starting soon? How did this happen? #AcademicChatter
A classical oil painting meme featuring a man holding his hand above his eyes as if peering into the distance, with overlaid white text that reads: "Well, well, well, if it isn't the bridge I said I'd cross when I came to it."
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 01/10/2026
Periodic service announcement: if you want to know more about the extreme right and their supporters & policies, my bibliography lists more than 1,600 titles www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-righ...
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Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
A bibliography of more than 1600 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 01/10/2026
Sei ohne Sorge
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Funny Cat Pours Coffee into Smiley Cup
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 01/10/2026
The 2023 update of the bibliography on the radical right #throwbackpost
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1 year, 108 new items: the Spring 2023 update of the radical right bibliography - kai arzheimer
The Spring 2023 update of the Far-Right Bibliography features 108 fresh titles. Dive in to discover the topics explored by the authors.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 01/10/2026
You've probably already seen these charts. If not: they're quite something
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Republicans’ fascination with testosterone in three charts
From policy changes to campaign attacks, testosterone is a GOP talking point. Here's what's behind this partisan fixation.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 01/10/2026
Shiny new project syndrome, illustrated #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
Black and white illustration of hands snapping fingers, with the text "And just like that, I lost interest..."
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some of the lads from the english department heard you made a light, passing reference to intertextuality in your sociology paper and want to talk about it
a poto of gilla band, four unhappy-looking white men in early middle age, dressed in various tones of black and beige
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 29/09/2026
Same here
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
T. E. Givens. “The Radical Right Gender Gap”. In: Comparative Political Studies 37 (2004), pp. 30-54.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 29/09/2026
Same old, same old
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French far right’s Bardella denies reports he made antisemitic comments
Mediapart published several comments it alleged the MEP made as a teenager and young activist.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 29/09/2026
"Scholarly prognostic biscuits, rewind & resubmit version"
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Academic fortune cookies, R&R edition - kai arzheimer
Related posts: The Secret Life of Canada: Jewish Montreal – a culinary history Germany and the European Crisis: Confusion and Delay Interview with Diário de Notícias on the Nationalist International (or not) Video: policy brief on immigration, local decline, and anti-immigrant backlash
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Martina BWC @blackandwhiteandcolours.de · 28/09/2026
I can see the whole room! ...and there's nobody in it! #JGU #MZ
Farbfoto. Nachtaufnahme. Der Vordergrund zeigt eine Straßenkreuzung mit Ampeln, Leuchten, Stoppschild, an der Kreuzung haltende Autos. Rechts Gebüsch, hinter der Kreuzung Gebüsch und Bäume. Dahinter mittig ein dunkles Gebäude mit einem leuchtenden Schriftzug auf dem Dach über zwei Seiten. Linke, von der Betrachterin abgewandte Seite: "I can see the whole room!" Rechte, der Betrachterin zugewandte Seite: "...and there's nobody in it!" Darüber dunkler Nachthimmel.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kai Arzheimer, die letzte Hürde vor dem Einstieg ins Programm. "Die Soziologie ist sowas wie die ältere Schwester der Politikwissenschaft... und hat meistens leider recht." #dgs2026
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Follow me. I'm powered by the The Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right…
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Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
A bibliography of more than 1600 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 28/09/2026
Working on research into far-right mobilisation and what it means for democracy? This call may be for you. We’re especially keen to see innovative theoretical and empirical work that critically examines the radical–extreme distinction. 📣
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Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformation
This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 28/09/2026
#tbp "While secularism as a political and philosophical concept has existed for centuries and while there is a plethora of measures for individual religiosity, there is no established instrument for measuring political secularism at the micro-level"
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A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism | Politics and Religion | Cambridge Core
A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism - Volume 15 Issue 4
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 27/09/2026
This is a very generally useful list 👇
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Nine Things You Can Actually Do About the Far Right in Britain
Take back control. It was a good slogan, which is an annoying thing to admit, and it worked because it offered people something to do at a moment when most of them felt they could do nothing. Three words, a verb at the front and the promise that the doing would be simple. Ten years on, the people who used it have deliv
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you interested in the #RadicalRight in France? → P. Vasilopoulos, G. E. Marcus, N. A. Valentino, et al. “Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks”. In: Political Psychology 40.4 (2019), pp. 679-704.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 27/09/2026
In which @michaelhansenphd.bsky.social gives a very nuanced overview of the #farright mess in #GermanPolitics
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The AfD, Saxony-Anhalt and the fragility of Germany’s “firewall”
The AfD has become too large to ban without a serious backlash, yet its electoral success threatens the foundations of the democratic order it seeks to enter.
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Zukünfte der Gesellschaft @dgskongress2026.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Presseeinladung zum 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) auf dem Campus der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz:
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Zukünfte der Gesellschaft – 43. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 26/09/2026
Double-check your spelling #AcademicChattter
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Unfortunate hyphenation or a new conflict in Uro-Pean politics? - kai arzheimer
Related posts: Don’t feed the troll A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes Who is going to succeed Kurt Beck? German Constitutional Court Kills Electoral Threshold For European Elections
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 19/09/2026
The marshy county of Essex will always have a special place in my ❤️, so I find this audio long read about how it was turned into a literal dumping ground for London both fascinating and depressing 🎧
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The Audio Long Read - The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Listen to The Audio Long Read - The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us by The Guardian on Podcast Addict. We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2023: Landfill sites have swallowed many a beauty spot along the Thames estuary in the past 50 years. Now, as those dumps start to disgorge tonnes of mouldering detritus into the river, it truly feels like the Age of Consequences By Tim Burrows. Read by Sam Swainsbury. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardian.com/longreadpod</a>
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Jan Üblacker @januebl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nächste Woche ist es so weit: Der 43. Kongress der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @dgskongress2026.bsky.social findet an der JGU Mainz statt. Die Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie ist mit zwei Panels vertreten ⬇️
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I study the apocalypse and this is the surest sign I've seen
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/09/2026
Wie wichtig ist die Wahlforschung für die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft? Sehr. Wer es genauer wissen möchte, liest dieses Buchkapitel (freier Preprint)
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Wahlforschung in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft (zweite Auflage 2025) - kai arzheimer
Die Wahlforschung ist eines der wichtigsten Teilgebiete der Politischen Soziologie. Sie operiert damit an der Schnittstelle zwischen Politikwissenschaft und
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 20/09/2026
All this just goes to show that the time wasn't ripe yet for a male Bundeskanzlerin #Germany
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/09/2026
"This is a transparent and despicable attempt to drive Nazi victims in Heidenau out of the city once again and dispose of them where, according to the AfD, their memory has belonged a long time ago — at the cemetery"
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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau
Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the eastern town of Heidenau.
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Want to know more about the #SD? J. Rydgren and S. van der Meiden. “The Radical Right and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism”. In: European Political Science (2018). dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41304-018-0159-6.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/09/2026
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Pikachu in Hospital: Pokémon Scene
Alt: Pikachu in Hospital: Pokémon Scenea
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/09/2026
Ja, Espresso intravenös ☕💉
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 24/09/2026
Beyond the pale: Even back in 2019 #AfD leader Weidel gave the keynote presentation at well known right-wing extremist seminar
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Another AfD leader speaks at a far-right "institute" - kai arzheimer
The 'Institut für Staatspolitik' is a well-known far-right 'think tank'. Their self-stated meta-political mission is to educate the future nationalist. The
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Bigs @goatemperor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pretty common, funny misconception a lot of people have about autism is that having a "social norm hyperfixation" would make you act normal, instead of what it actually does, which is make you a sociologist.
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you know graduates looking for a PhD position? The interdisciplinary IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” studies political and social change around the Baltic Sea—escalating crises, shifting expectations, and competing narratives. Please share shorturl.at/7nIrZ
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Research Assistants - International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes” 26/ES20
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Deutsche Philologie
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 22/09/2026
Foxes possibly in charge of one of the 17 henhouses (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 22/09/2026
PDF presenter and it's cousins show the next slide and possibly notes with Beamer-generated PDFs
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 22/09/2026
The November 2019 iteration of the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. Click to see what was new then #farright
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The Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Europe: Winter 2019 update - kai arzheimer
Here comes the winter 2019 edition of the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. This is what you will want to know ?
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Kira Ayyadi @kiraayyadi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vornamen von Erstklässlern ins Netz stellen und "Remigration" fordern, so macht ein FPÖ-Politiker Sechsjährige zum Feindbild. Wer Schulkinder nach Namen sortiert, fantasiert von Deportation nichts anderes meint "Remigration". Die FPÖ dient der AfD als Blaupause www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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FPÖ-Politiker Walch postet Liste mit Vornamen von Schulkindern und fordert "Remigration"
"Zur Minderheit in unserer eigenen Stadt" zu werden, sei "Realität, wenn wir nicht endlich mit der Remigration beginnen", schrieb der Abgeordnete. Grüne und SPÖ kritisieren "Rassismus in Reinform" sow...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21/09/2026
🆓 Wie funktionieren Extremismus- und Radikalismusforschung? Dieses Kapitel erklärt es. Freie Vorabversion 🆓
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Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung - kai arzheimer
Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung setzt zunächst voraus, dass weitgehende Einigkeit über die zugrundeliegenden Konzepte und die damit zu
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 20/09/2026
All this just goes to show that the time wasn't ripe yet for a male Bundeskanzlerin #Germany
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not suprising that the Linke got the most votes among younger voters in Berlin. Yet, the size of their vote share among under-35 year-olds is stunning.
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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Early days, but looks like we may be heading for red-red-green governments in both M-V and Berlin - albeit with different parties on top. That's going to be difficult for the CDU to swallow. Merz due to speak shortly.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 23/12/2024
Helmut Kohl and his happy family, enjoying a very German holiday
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 14/09/2026
Colmar. Our Tour de France is coming to a close
A narrow street at dusk with a glowing ornate lantern mounted on a tall, shutter-windowed building, silhouetted figures walking in the distance under a pale sky.

A picturesque canal lined with half-timbered houses, outdoor café terraces with diners, and vibrant pink flowers in the foreground at twilight.

.A tranquil canal flanked by colourful half-timbered houses and a grand stone building, with a small bridge, a docked boat, and wildflowers in the foreground at dusk.

A Gothic stone church tower with a green spire rises above traditional half-timbered rooftops under a bright blue, cloud-streaked sky.

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