Kai Arzheimer: Publications, Teaching, Contact (Publikationen, Lehrangebot, Kontakt)

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Prof. Dr. Kai Arzheimer

"To err is human, to forgive divine, but to include errors into your design is statistical." (Leslie Kish)

About me

I am professor of Empirical Political Science at the University of Mainz and Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, University of Essex. My main interests are:

voting behaviour and political attitudes
political alienation ("Politikverdrossenheit")
Right-Wing Extremism
Research Methods in Political Science
German Politics
Western Europe and Political Integration in the European Union

Über mich

Ich bin Professor für Methoden der Empirische Politikforschung an der Universität Mainz und Visiting Fellow am Department of Government/University of Essex. Meine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind:

Wahlforschung und Einstellungsforschung
Politikverdrossenheit
Rechtsextremismus
Methoden der Politikwissenschaft
Politisches System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Westeuropa/Europäische Union

News (click here for more)

Which of my students are most likely to gang up against me?

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: I’m teaching a lecture course on Political Sociology at the moment, and because everyone is so excited about social capital and social network analysis these days, I decided to run a little online experiment with and on my students. The audience is large (at the beginning of this term, about [...]

posted on 19 May 2010

Update on the Peer-Review Survey

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Sixteen months ago, we started the Political Science Peer-Review Survey. This week, the input form was shut down. That is about three quarters of a year later than expected, but then again, I underestimated the fallout of my move back to Germany. Moreover, until a few weeks ago there was [...]

posted on 23 March 2010

Extreme Right Bibliography Online

Over the last two decades I have accumulated thousands of references that have travelled with me all the way from bibtex-mode through Endnote, Citavi and some more obscure packages until we finally came full circle and ended up in bibtex-mode again. To my mild surprise, my use of (some) keywords has been fairly consistent so [...]

posted on 3 March 2010

All singing, all dancing 3d function plots with beamer, pgfplots and animate.sty

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: [/caption] I use emacs/for all my textprocessing needs, and for the last four or five years, I have created all my slides with Till Tantaus excellent “beamer” class. At the moment, I’m teaching a 2nd year stats course (imagine doing this with PowerPoint – the horror! the horror!), so I [...]

posted on 23 January 2010