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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. 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. Meine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind:- Wahlforschung und Einstellungsforschung
- Politikverdrossenheit
- Rechtsextremismus
- Methoden der Politikwissenschaft
- Politisches System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- Westeuropa/Europäische Union
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The Radical Right in Perspective: Program (ECPR conference 2009)
Here is the (almost) finalised program for the our section on the Radical Right in Perspective, organised under the auspices of the ECPR's 5th General Conference (Potsdam, September 10-12), boasting about 50 papers.
posted on 26 April 2009
There and Back Again
I have left Britain’s Best Politics Department (™) for my alma mater, which (oddly enough) wants me back. Share: Technorati Tags: essex mainz politics Related posts No related posts.
posted on 10 April 2009
AJPS article on the Extreme Right published
My article on Contextual Factors (unemployment, immigration, other parties) and the Extreme Right vote in Western Europe between 1980 and 2002 was yesterday published in the American Journal of Political Science (online). Obviously, I’m absolutely chuffed. The DOI (doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2009.00369.x) does not work yet, but the link to Wiley Interscience does. Here is the full bibliographic [...]
posted on 28 March 2009
New Blog on the German 2009 Elections
Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Colleagues Andrea Römmele and Thorsten Faas have set up a new blog that will cover the many German elections of 2009 (seats in the federal parliament, several state parliaments, local councils as well as the presidency are all up for grabs) and asked me to contribute. How could I resist [...]
posted on 19 March 2009
"All models are wrong but some are useful." (G. E. P. Box)
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