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Kai Arzheimer

@kai-arzheimer.com

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Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/

Kai Arzheimer is a German professor of Political Science at the University of Mainz. Previously, he was a Lecturer in German and West European Politics at the Department of Government of the University of Essex. In 2017-2018, he held the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair in German and European Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. .. more

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 48m

#tbp Why do citizens vote for the #RadicalRight 🗳️ ? A overview of what we know & what we don't know, and what we could learn in the future (free preprint)

Explaining Electoral Support for the Radical Right - kai arzheimer

Why do people vote for the Radical Right? Surveying 3 decades of explanations for Radical Right voting, I summarise what we know, and what we don't know

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4h

In which David Weakliem has some characteristically interesting thoughts about last week's elections

A few thoughts in the wake of Tuesday's election: 1. The basic story: the voters who put Trump over the top in 2024 were expecting somethi...

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 7h

Made me chuckle 🤭

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 8h

In move that surprises absolutely no one, the leader of the eponymous party leaves the humdrum of actually leading behind to focus on her career in TV and social media. Meanwhile, voters are much less interested in left authoritarianism than political scientists.

What will become of Sahra Wagenknecht's party? – DW – 11/11/2025

German politician Sahra Wagenknecht will no longer play a role in leading the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a party founded in 2024 with several prominent former Left Party lawmakers.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 9h

Totally normal opposition party stuff: 'police searched the property of an unnamed #AfD politician, who is suspected of supporting a far-right group that plotted the kidnapping of Germany's health minister and other crimes'

Germany news: Police search AfD politician's property

Prosecutors in Thuringia said police searched three properties but that the unnamed politician's arrest was not being sought. Meanwhile, the governing coalition has agreed to a new conscription policy. DW has more.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 13h

We have met the enemy, and it is us #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

A screenshot of the editorialmanager system. Next to the name "Kai Arzheimer" are the words (in red) "Reviewer 2"

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

Für den "Systemfragen" #podcast des Deutschlandfunks durfte ich letzte einige der Ergebnisse der jüngsten "Mitte"-Studie einordnen. Die vollen 30 Minuten zum Nachhören gibt es hier 🎧

Politologe Arzheimer - Viele Menschen stehen fest auf dem Boden der Demokratie

AfD, Pegida, Neonazis - die Mitte-Studie macht den Machern Sorgen. Politiologe Arzheimer warnt, Einstellungen mit Politik gleichzusetzen.

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

'The narrative is typically grounded in a much more insidious manipulation of information [...] A common trope is the idea that democratic societies are chaotic and failing.'

How authoritarian states sculpt a warped alternative reality in our news feeds

Russia and China push content that depicts western states as chaotic, immoral and even just weird.

theconversation.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

'The White House tailors its content to the beliefs, language and worldview of Trump’s political base'

King, pope, Jedi, Superman: Trump’s social media images exclusively target his base and try to blur political reality

Campy, exaggerated and partisan, many White House social media posts target the president’s base. But the communications approach may pose a risk to democracy.

theconversation.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

You had to be there

a man with long hair is making a funny face and saying `` i was there gandalf i was there 3000 years ago ... ''

ALT: a man with long hair is making a funny face and saying `` i was there gandalf i was there 3000 years ago ... ''

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

An incredibly fitting career move 👇

Christian Lindner: From German finance minister to used car salesman

Ex-leader of Free Democratic Party set to join the board of Autoland AG, which calls itself Germany’s “largest auto discounter,” selling new and used cars.

www.politico.eu

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

Got it in one! The Ether used to arrive at our workplace through a bundle of thin tubes. When you bent the tube too much, the Ether stopped.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

They: How long have you been working with networked computers?
Me:

10BASE2 cable showing the BNC connector end.
Source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/10base2#/media/File:BNC_Tee_connector,_with_Ethernet_cable_connected-92166.jpg

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

How did you end up like this, #Italy?

RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 8d

Italy and the #RadicalRight G. Baldini, F. Tronconi, and D. Angelucci. “Yet Another Populist Party? Understanding the Rise of Brothers Of Italy”. In: South European Society and Politics 27.3 (2022), pp. 385-405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2022.2159625.

Reposted by Kai Arzheimer, Michael Gentile

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 2d

The co-leader of the far-right AfD, Germany's largest opposition party, has suggested that Poland is as much of a threat to his country as Russia is.

Leader of far-right AfD suggests Poland as great a threat to Germany as Russia

Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support.

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PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · 2d

Forschungswerkstatt mit Christian Breunig: gleich geht's los!

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

Shock, surprise: the #farright #AfD is torn between Trump and Putin.
It's a good thing for them that these choices are not mutually exclusive

Trump adviser to Germany’s far-right AfD: ‘We are in this together’

MAGA social media guru Alex Bruesewitz visited Berlin to make common cause with the far-right Alternative for Germany at a time when the party is seeking allies in the U.S.

www.politico.eu

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

Really useful: the newsmap package for #rstats helps the RadicalRightResearchRobot to identify topics in texts #farright #tbp

Identifying topics in research papers with the newsmap package for R (or: how the Radical Right Research Robot became slightly less dumb) - kai arzheimer

The Radical Right Research Robot is a fun side project whose life began exactly one year ago. The Robot exists to promote the very large body of knowledge on

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

¹ Yes, I'm perfectly aware that this is literally a collection of tired clichés, life there is quite different, my chances of learning even one of the alphabets are slim etc. But still.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

I'd rather be elsewhere, but you'd never guess where.¹

A collection of Japan-themed Lego sets

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

This is a neat unexpected event during survey design, but it looks like none of the pre/post differences is significant. But the massive decline 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 the meeting and the emerging partisan polarisation are quite remarkable #Germany 👇

How the Trump-Zelensykyy Oval Office meeting shifted German views of the US

Few moments captured the volatility of transatlantic relations better than the explosive Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 28 February 2025. Sebastian Jäckle, Ronald Schleehauf, Judith Reinbold and Marius Fröhle studied its impact on German public opinion using a natural experiment based on an online survey

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

Say what?

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump regime is ruining America’s most valuable alliances and international partnerships.

The level of trust needed to do high level intelligence sharing is rare, and Five Eyes cooperation has been a major asset.

The US chose to throw it away, harming its own power and security. And for what?

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics

The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump regime is ruining America’s most valuable alliances and international partnerships.

The level of trust needed to do high level intelligence sharing is rare, and Five Eyes cooperation has been a major asset.

The US chose to throw it away, harming its own power and security. And for what?

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics

The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

This RP text (in German) gets the headline right, but also fails to include the words 'right-wing' and 'extremism'. Sigh.

rp-online.de/politik/deut...

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

German police arrest a man, but most German media fail to provide adequate context and headlines: the arrest is on terrorism charges, the accused has a #farright background (mentioned at the very end of this DW article' and seems to be a 'sovereign citizen'.

Germany: Man arrested for darknet site targeting politicians – DW – 11/11/2025

Federal prosecutors have arrested a man suspected of encouraging attacks on politicians on the darknet, including by using cryptocurrency as a "reward." The man is also said to have compiled a list of potential targets.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

That's a remarkably tangential reading of Wagner's paper, dear bot

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

Quirky 404 pages are a dying breed. Kudos to CUP for trying to keep the tradition alive. Mind you, I still haven't found the information I'm looking for, but at least they made me smile #AcademicChatter

A 404 page from Cambridge University Press. It shows a black-and-white photo of historic Cambridge buildings with a vintage car on a rooftop, under the text “You’re lost in Cambridge.”

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

Our friend @rrresrobot.bsky.social has finally broken the chains that tied it to evil Elon #farright #radicalright #research

The Radical Right Research Robot breaks free from Twitter - kai arzheimer

My Radical Right Research Bot is no longer dependent on Twitter. Yay!

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

Fragmentation in the #Netherlands is (literally) off the charts

Netherlands 2025

The general election in the Netherlands on 29 October produced a really stunning level of fragmentation. Two parties tied for the largest in seats, with 26 seats apiece. That’s 17.3%! The par…

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PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · 4d

Wir begrüßen Christian Breunig (Universität Konstanz) am Mittwoch um 16:00 Uhr in unserer #Forschungswerkstatt (P5). Er spricht zum Thema "Politicians, citizens and their perceptions of power and deservingness"
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