Very happy to report that my recent research on Political Secularism has been published in the European Journal of Political Research (open access). Read the very short summary below, or just watch the video.
Hey look, I made another silly video abstract: https://youtu.be/z_s-ab2YCMY Video abstract: Arzheimer, K. (2022). A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism. Politics and Religion, 15(4), 827-840. doi:10.1017/S1755048322000104 (open access) .
Santa came early and brought me a volume, an issue & even some page numbers. In other word, my Politics & Religion article on the ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐บ is out in print (how very old school!). [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2022] But hey, it is still ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ and digitally yours at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048322000104.
In all likelihood, Germany’s next government will be more secular than most of its predecessors. Here is why.
I love what 60 years of economics envy have done to the social sciences.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – Bar Joke
In Germany, only 40 per cent of the population trust the Protestant Church, and trust in the Catholic Church is down to 20 per cent. Politicians will continue to fail to see the implications.
West European Politics has finally published our paper on ‘Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties’.ย Hooray! And here is the link to the authors’ version.
Does Christian religiosity reduce or increase the likelihood of a radical/extreme right vote in a West European context?This is the question Liz and I are trying to address in our latest paper