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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)
Kai Arzheimer

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) 

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! [...]

posted on 23 January 2010

How to get from Stata to Pajek

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: I’m teaching an introductory SNA class this year. Following a time-honoured tradition, I conducted a small network survey at the beginning of the class using Limesurvey. Getting the data from Limesurvey to Stata via CSV was easy enough. Here is the data set. But how does one get the data [...]

posted on 10 January 2010

Strasbourg Conference Presentation on the Extreme Right

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Image by Claude-Olivier Marti via Flickr Here is a short presentation on the electorates of the Western European Extreme Right I gave last Thursday at the Collège Doctoral Européen de Strasbourg. And here is the [...]

posted on 15 November 2009

Data on Knowledge Networks in Political Science Published

Replication data for our recent article on knowledge networks in Political Science are available from my dataverse Share: Technorati Tags: bibliometrics, knowledge networks, PVS, sna Related posts Article on Networks in Political Science Published (1) Software for Social Network Analysis: Pajek and Friends (0) Presentation: Knowledge Networks in European Political Science (0) Statistics and Data links roundup for November 23rd through December [...]

posted on 9 November 2009

"All models are wrong but some are useful." (G. E. P. Box)

Contact/Kontakt

  • Mail: K. Arzheimer, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
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  • Twitter: kai_arzheimer
  • Networks: methodspace, xing, linkedin, academia.edu
  • Sprechstunde/Office Hours (Doodle)

Institut 

Sven Stadtmüller publiziert Artikel zu “erwünschten und unerwünschten Effekten monetärer Anreize” in Befragungen

Work in progress

Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002 PDF-Version: Contextual-Factors.pdf

Lakatos Reloaded. A reply to Lister. PDF-Version: Lakatos-reloaded.pdf

Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties
PDF-version

How (not) to operationalise Subnational Political Opportunity Structures in France

Networks in British and German Political Science

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something true? A comment on Lister’s ‘Institutions, Inequality and Social Norms: Explaining Variations in Participation’ (HTML) (PDF-Version) (Replication data)

'In the eye of the beholder'. Citizens' perceptions of the German party system 1997-2005