Mainz to host 2013 Joint Sessions of Workshops
Believe it or not: My institution will play host to the 2013 instalment of the ECPR’s highly successful Joint Sessions of Workshops conference series.
Category: Political Science
Online Survey on Democratic Attitudes
A group of my students has programmed a short online questionnaire on democratic attitudes. Please do feel free to help them with their work by participating and sharing the link. The survey is short, fun and completely anonymous: http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/survey/index.php?sid=95262&lang=en
Party ID in Germany: Dead Men Walking …. (Almost) Tall!
Recently, I re-ran my scripts on a new data set that extends the old series all through the naughties. As you can see, party ID in Germany is not exactly alive and kicking, but the rate of decline has fallen considerably over the last decade.
Sampling from a Multinomial Distribution in Stata
Sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Which, in my case, might be a little simulation of a random process involving an unordered categorical variable. In R, sampling from a multinomial distribution is trivial. rmultinom(1,1000,c(.1,.7,.2,.1)) gives me a vector of random numbers from a multinomial distribution with outcomes 1, 2, 3, and…
New Political Science Blog
Colleagues over at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham have started yet another political science blog. Its official name is “Ballots & Bullets”, but I find its URL nottspolitics.org rather more memorable. They started out only six weeks ago, but the range of topics and the number of articles…
Netzwerke in der Politikwissenschaft (Trier)
Vortrag am Forschungscluster “Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke” über Zitationsnetzwerke und Kollaborationsnetzwerke in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft. Basiert auf [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2009]
Electoral Sociology: Who votes for the Extreme Right – and when?
This is a presentation on the electoral sociology of the Extreme Right that I gave at an excellent short conference at Strasbourg. The full PDF is here: Who votes for the Extreme Right? The presentation eventually resulted in this publication: [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2012d]
The Dynamics of Radical Right Party Support and Mainstream Parties’ Programmatic Change in France
This is a talk I gave at the legendary ECPR General Conference at the University of Potsdam. Still very much work in progress, I’m afraid. Here is the full paper: A Matter of Timing? The Dynamics of Radical Right Party Support and Mainstream Parties’ Programmatic Change in France
Old Talks
Here are some older talks (going back to 2003) that I have saved from the old website. Mainz 2009 Politikverdrossenheit: Begrifflichkeit, Entwicklung, Ursachen, Lösungsansätze London 2008 Knowledge Networks in EuropeanPolitical Science Mainz 2007 Die Wahrnehmung des deutschen Parteiensystem durch die Bürger, 1997-2005 Was lehren uns Integrationstheorien über die EU? Was können Integrationstheoretiker von der EU…