Marvin Stein
@marvinstein.bsky.social
Political scientist (Uni Bremen): political sociology, political psychology and empirical attitudinal research in the field of populism, conspiracy ideology and right-wing extremism
Pinned
📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
My dataset covering the Querdenken movement is now available @dprex.bsky.social for scientific use, providing comprehensive insights into one of Germany‘s largest protest movements in recent years.
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Auffälligkeit in den Daten der neuen #Mitte-Studie: Unter den jungen Befragten sind Fremdenfeindlichkeit und ein rechtsextremes Weltbild deutlich stärker verbreitet als bei den älteren Menschen.
(Komplette Studie der @fesonline.bsky.social: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...)
(Komplette Studie der @fesonline.bsky.social: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...)
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Auffälligkeit in den Daten der neuen #Mitte-Studie: Unter den jungen Befragten sind Fremdenfeindlichkeit und ein rechtsextremes Weltbild deutlich stärker verbreitet als bei den älteren Menschen.
(Komplette Studie der @fesonline.bsky.social: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...)
(Komplette Studie der @fesonline.bsky.social: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...)
Im folgenden Thread einige Einblicke in meine Querdenken-Daten im Vergleich zur dt. Bevölkerung. Wenig überraschend hielt kaum jemand aus der Szene die Corona-Maßnahmen für „genau richtig“. Interessant: Innerhalb der Szene herrschte teils Uneinigkeit darüber, ob sie zu streng oder locker waren
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Im folgenden Thread einige Einblicke in meine Querdenken-Daten im Vergleich zur dt. Bevölkerung. Wenig überraschend hielt kaum jemand aus der Szene die Corona-Maßnahmen für „genau richtig“. Interessant: Innerhalb der Szene herrschte teils Uneinigkeit darüber, ob sie zu streng oder locker waren
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My dataset covering the Querdenken movement is now available @dprex.bsky.social for scientific use, providing comprehensive insights into one of Germany‘s largest protest movements in recent years.
📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
November 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My dataset covering the Querdenken movement is now available @dprex.bsky.social for scientific use, providing comprehensive insights into one of Germany‘s largest protest movements in recent years.
My dataset covering the Querdenken movement is now available @dprex.bsky.social for scientific use, providing comprehensive insights into one of Germany‘s largest protest movements in recent years.
📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
November 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My dataset covering the Querdenken movement is now available @dprex.bsky.social for scientific use, providing comprehensive insights into one of Germany‘s largest protest movements in recent years.
Stoked to see a beloved side project finally come to completion. Today, I submitted my #Querdenken dataset (N= 4748). Available soon via @dprex.bsky.social for scientific reuse. Big thanks to @marlenehilgenstock.bsky.social for the great support. Looking foward seeing the findings it might generate.
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Stoked to see a beloved side project finally come to completion. Today, I submitted my #Querdenken dataset (N= 4748). Available soon via @dprex.bsky.social for scientific reuse. Big thanks to @marlenehilgenstock.bsky.social for the great support. Looking foward seeing the findings it might generate.
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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
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Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself).
Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Rejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself).
Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
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Mein Aufsatz "Verschwörungsnarrative im türkischen Nationalismus: Akteur:innen der türkisch-islamischen Ideologie in Deutschland und ihre Rolle für den antiarmenischen Rassismus und Antisemitismus" ist ab heute frei verfügbar - im Open Access-Sammelband "Projektiver Antizionismus":
Projektiver Antizionismus
www.nomos-shop.de
October 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Mein Aufsatz "Verschwörungsnarrative im türkischen Nationalismus: Akteur:innen der türkisch-islamischen Ideologie in Deutschland und ihre Rolle für den antiarmenischen Rassismus und Antisemitismus" ist ab heute frei verfügbar - im Open Access-Sammelband "Projektiver Antizionismus":
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Is it okay to engage with extremists? Join our webinar with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London, on Oct. 16, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online. Moderated, as always, by the one and only @audreygagnon.bsky.social! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Is it ok to talk to extremists? Navigating gender and avoiding legitimisation in ethnography with the far right
- C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Elizabeth Pearson, Royal Holloway, University of London
www.sv.uio.no
October 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Is it okay to engage with extremists? Join our webinar with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London, on Oct. 16, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online. Moderated, as always, by the one and only @audreygagnon.bsky.social! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
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Finally out: Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP (DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2402218, www.researchgate.net/publication/...): How far can we replicate manual discourse annotation with NLP tools?
(PDF) Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP
PDF | Die Annotation politischer Diskurse ist traditionell zeit- und personalintensiv. Die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Bereich NLP versprechen allerdings... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
October 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Finally out: Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP (DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2402218, www.researchgate.net/publication/...): How far can we replicate manual discourse annotation with NLP tools?
Happy to share first insights from our project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ at this year’s @protestinstitut.bsky.social conference in Bremen. We processed 30+ datasets with @gesis.org , covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Releasing soon via GESIS.
October 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Happy to share first insights from our project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ at this year’s @protestinstitut.bsky.social conference in Bremen. We processed 30+ datasets with @gesis.org , covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Releasing soon via GESIS.
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DP-REX | @dprex.bsky.social is now also on BlueSky! The data portal for data on right-wing #extremism, #racism, #antisemitism, and all forms of group-focused hostility and #radicalization.
🔗 datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de
If you do research in these areas, it is worth checking out!
🔗 datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de
If you do research in these areas, it is worth checking out!
DP-REX – Das Datenportal für Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung
Das Datenportal für Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung
datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de
September 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
DP-REX | @dprex.bsky.social is now also on BlueSky! The data portal for data on right-wing #extremism, #racism, #antisemitism, and all forms of group-focused hostility and #radicalization.
🔗 datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de
If you do research in these areas, it is worth checking out!
🔗 datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de
If you do research in these areas, it is worth checking out!
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Most work out there argues that it doesn't pay off for center-right parties to move closer to the far-right.
Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.
Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.
Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.
Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Most work out there argues that it doesn't pay off for center-right parties to move closer to the far-right.
Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.
Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.
Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.
Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.
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1/4. We're excited to announce the publication of: "How populist are ethnic minorities? Populist attitudes and voting for populist parties in the Netherlands", by Niels Spierings & Kristof Jacobs.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
1/4. We're excited to announce the publication of: "How populist are ethnic minorities? Populist attitudes and voting for populist parties in the Netherlands", by Niels Spierings & Kristof Jacobs.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
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In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.
Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.
1/3
Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.
1/3
NEW -
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD
"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"
- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.
Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.
1/3
Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.
1/3
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Do party alliances shift voter views? 🤝
A study in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧 finds that when mainstream voters see their party cooperating with radical right parties, they’re more likely to adopt nativist views. Alliances may normalize exclusionary ideas.
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A study in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧 finds that when mainstream voters see their party cooperating with radical right parties, they’re more likely to adopt nativist views. Alliances may normalize exclusionary ideas.
🔗
From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non-radical right supporters
LIE PHILIP SANTOSO
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Do party alliances shift voter views? 🤝
A study in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧 finds that when mainstream voters see their party cooperating with radical right parties, they’re more likely to adopt nativist views. Alliances may normalize exclusionary ideas.
🔗
A study in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧 finds that when mainstream voters see their party cooperating with radical right parties, they’re more likely to adopt nativist views. Alliances may normalize exclusionary ideas.
🔗
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I gave a lecture on “The Far Right in the Trump Era” at @renner-institut.at in Vienna this Summer. You can watch it here. 👇
Cas Mudde: The Far Right in the Trump Era
YouTube video by Karl-Renner-Institut
www.youtube.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I gave a lecture on “The Far Right in the Trump Era” at @renner-institut.at in Vienna this Summer. You can watch it here. 👇
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Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.
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Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.
August 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.
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Druckt das aus, hängt das auf, in Büros, Kantinen, U-Bahn-Schächten, Hauseingängen, Redaktionen, Lehrer*innenzimmern, Konzertsälen, Geschäften, Bushaltestellen, lasst es in Uni-Treppenhäusern und im Bundestag von den obersten Bereichen flattern!
www.pressenza.com/de/2017/10/1...
www.pressenza.com/de/2017/10/1...
14 Merkmale des Ur-Faschismus nach Umberto Eco
Woran erkennt man ein faschistisches System? Heutzutage werden viele diktatorische Regime und politische Parteien als faschistisch bezeichnet. "Faschismus
www.pressenza.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Druckt das aus, hängt das auf, in Büros, Kantinen, U-Bahn-Schächten, Hauseingängen, Redaktionen, Lehrer*innenzimmern, Konzertsälen, Geschäften, Bushaltestellen, lasst es in Uni-Treppenhäusern und im Bundestag von den obersten Bereichen flattern!
www.pressenza.com/de/2017/10/1...
www.pressenza.com/de/2017/10/1...
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Apropos Einsatz der Nationalgarde um vermeintliche criminals zu „crushen“: „Cops must be unleashed and allowed to administer instand punishment“ ist die 4. Übergangsforderung aus Murray Rothbards „Right Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement“. (1992)
Und damit hat die Trump Administration in der Tat alle acht Planken der Programmplattform aus Murray Rothbards "Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement" (1992) abgedeckt.
Übergangsforderung Nr. 5 aus Murray Rothbards "Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement" (1992).
August 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Apropos Einsatz der Nationalgarde um vermeintliche criminals zu „crushen“: „Cops must be unleashed and allowed to administer instand punishment“ ist die 4. Übergangsforderung aus Murray Rothbards „Right Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement“. (1992)
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Great article by @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social on Orbán's successful efforts to bring far right and "mainstream right" elites together.
What is important about these recent event though, is that the "mainstream right" and far right now meet on far-right events and, thus, on their terms.
What is important about these recent event though, is that the "mainstream right" and far right now meet on far-right events and, thus, on their terms.
MCC Feszt – Normalising the Normalisation of the Far Right
MCC’s annual festival is merely a propaganda tool for the far right that the mainstream willingly participates in - writes Gabriela Greilinger
hungarianobserver.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Great article by @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social on Orbán's successful efforts to bring far right and "mainstream right" elites together.
What is important about these recent event though, is that the "mainstream right" and far right now meet on far-right events and, thus, on their terms.
What is important about these recent event though, is that the "mainstream right" and far right now meet on far-right events and, thus, on their terms.
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Research supports “rabbit hole” model of conspiratorial thinking www.psypost.org/new-research... @psypost.bsky.social
"...believing in one conspiracy theory can slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others..."
"...people may develop interconnected systems of conspiratorial thinking..."
"...believing in one conspiracy theory can slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others..."
"...people may develop interconnected systems of conspiratorial thinking..."
New research supports the "rabbit hole" model of conspiratorial thinking
A new study suggests that believing in one conspiracy theory may slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others. The research offers rare causal evidence in support of the long-debated “rabbi...
www.psypost.org
August 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Research supports “rabbit hole” model of conspiratorial thinking www.psypost.org/new-research... @psypost.bsky.social
"...believing in one conspiracy theory can slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others..."
"...people may develop interconnected systems of conspiratorial thinking..."
"...believing in one conspiracy theory can slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others..."
"...people may develop interconnected systems of conspiratorial thinking..."
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In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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I'd like every current PhD student in political science to chew on this, please.
Starry-eyed fascination with numbers doesn't get you very far if you haven't tried to understand what the things you are measuring mean to actual people.
Starry-eyed fascination with numbers doesn't get you very far if you haven't tried to understand what the things you are measuring mean to actual people.
Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:
August 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'd like every current PhD student in political science to chew on this, please.
Starry-eyed fascination with numbers doesn't get you very far if you haven't tried to understand what the things you are measuring mean to actual people.
Starry-eyed fascination with numbers doesn't get you very far if you haven't tried to understand what the things you are measuring mean to actual people.