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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) 

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