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Kai Arzheimer: CV
Work in progress
- Working Class Parties 2.0
- Europa als Wertegemeinschaft
- Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002 PDF-Version: Contextual-Factors.pdf
- Networks in British and German Political Science
- 'In the eye of the beholder'. Citizens' perceptions of the German party system 1997-2005
Principal research and teaching interests
- Voting in national and comparative perspective, with a specific interest in the voters of Right-wing Extremist parties in Western Europe
- Political attitudes and value orientations in comparative perspective, with a particular interest in political disaffection and alienation ("Politikverdrossenheit")
- Research methods in political science
- German and West European politics
Education
- 2007: Venia Legendi for political science
- 2002-2006: Habilitation project "Extreme Right voters in Western Europe, 1980-2002"
- 2001/2002: PhD in political science Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Politikverdrossenheit. Bedeutung, Verwendung und empirische Relevanz eines politikwissenschaftlichen Begriffes
- 1996: State Examination (political science, sociology, and German) Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Positions held
- Professor of Empirical Political Science, University of Mainz and Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, University of Essex
- 2006-2009 Lecturer in German and West European Politics/DAAD fellow, Department of Government, University of Essex
- 2002-2006: Senior researcher/lecturer ("C1"), Institut für Politikwissenschaft/Universität Mainz
- 1998-2001: Junior researcher/lecturer, University of Mainz
- 1997-1998: Research associate within the DFG-funded project "Conjoint Analysis as a Tool for Voting Research"
- 1996: Contract Worker for the Institut für Politikwissenschaft/Universität Mainz and for the University's IT centre
Teaching
- Wide range of modules in the fields of methods, political sociology, German and West European Politics - see separate pages for Germany and UK
Awards and Distinctions
- Grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG) for the publication of my monograph on "Politikverdrossenheit"
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität dissertation prize
- DAAD Lecturer Fellowship
Reviewer for
- Acta Politica
- American Journal of Political Science
- American Political Science Review
- Austrian Science Fund
- British Journal of Political Science
- British Academy
- Comparative Political Studies
- Electoral Studies
- European Journal of Political Research
- European Sociological Review
- European Union Politics
- German Politics
- German Politics and Society
- Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft
- Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties
- Journal of Official Statistics
- Journal of Politics
- Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Parliamentary Affairs
- Political Studies
- Politische Vierteljahresschrift
- Scandinavian Political Studies
- Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- West European Politics
Membership/Professional Activities
- Association for the Study of German Politics (ASGP)
- Extreme Right Electorates and Party Success
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung (DGfW)
- German Political Science Association (DVPW)
- Co-Founder and co-chair of the DVPW's ad-hoc group on political extremism (2003-2006)
- Co-chair of the DVPW's standing group on political attitudes and electoral behaviour (since 2005)
- ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy
- Political Studies Association