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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 · 1h

Hard agree #farright #Germany

A quote from Rensmann (2018: "Arzheimer’s earlier analysis, according to which the AfD has no
nativist objectives and is thus not right-wing populist, is by now obsolete."

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 6h

Morning, y'all

A woman in a pink bonnet and white gloves holds a teacup, with overlaid text humorously claiming she needs coffee to remember basic tasks, referencing Mary Cassatt’s 1870 painting “The Cup of Tea.”

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 7h

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Are the members of populist radical right parties more likely to value ‘dark triad’ leaders? A UK case study.

European Consortium for Political Research

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 16h

The bullshit machine is also the plagiarism machine. I find it quite amusing how aggressively corporations pushed the notion of intellectual property during the internet's early days, only to throw it out of the window two decades later

AI’s Memorization Crisis

Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

www.theatlantic.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 18h

Interesting data (as always), but who are 'the people'?

Power to the people?

In 1946, a short-lived survey organization called the Psychological Corporation (which seems to have been connected to the Gallup Poll) ask...

justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 18h

In the app , it's under settings -> moderation -> muted words and tags. Works like a charm

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 21h

We like Switzerland.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

Thanks: you're obviously right, and that's a very succinct clarification

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

'Remigration' is on its way to become a #farright master frame, but what does it actually mean? In Germany (somewhat unsurprisingly), that's 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 a legal-constitutional question, with implications for the #AfD. Excellent reporting by Correctiv - in German, but worth a click on 'translate'

Zwei Jahre nach der Potsdam-Recherche: Von angeblichen „Deportationslügen“ bis zum möglichen AfD-Verbotsverfahren

Erfahren Sie, wie sich die Debatte um Remigration und AfD-Verbot zwei Jahre später entwickelt hat und welche politischen Spannungen bestehen.

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 1d

The communication looked like the genuine article, then suddenly challenged my grip on reality #tbp #AcademicChatter

Academic Déjà vu, or Academic Dementia? - kai arzheimer

I get a lot of academic spam However, the missive that arrived yesterday looked like the real deal, then made me question my sanity.

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

Why does Hollywood love to destroy NYC? It's a perfectly valid, interesting question. For the rest of the world, the more puzzling question, however, is this: why does all that mayhem always start in the US of A? #podcast

podcastaddict.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

Due to libraries with e-books, I'm nowhere near these numbers, but there in spirit

The Pleasures of Tsundoku, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles

Recently, while moving several piles of books (31 titles) from the floor to another place on the floor to make space for my office chair, I experienced a moment of clarity during which I felt like …

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

Remarkable. Not in a good way. As an aside, trust in just about every partner is down. Sign of the times and all that.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 2d

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Just 15% of Germans consider the US a trusted partner — the lowest percentage in this ARD survey's history. At least that's higher than the 9% of Germans who trust Russia?

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

What do political scientists actually mean when they use the phrase "radical right"? New-ish chapter 📚, and like the rest of this excellent volume, it's #openaccess

'Radical Right' published in 'IPSA Companion to Political Science'

link.springer.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

😱😱😱

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 2d

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Just 15% of Germans consider the US a trusted partner — the lowest percentage in this ARD survey's history. At least that's higher than the 9% of Germans who trust Russia?

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 2d

The Shadow

It's the fifth anniversary of the assault on the Capitol that heralded the transformation of Donald ...

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PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · 3d

Wir laden herzlich zur 1. Forschungswerkstatt im Neuen Jahr 2026 ein!

Am Mittwoch, 14. Januar um 16 Uhr (Raum P5), spricht Matthias Mader (Universität Witten/Herdecke) zum Thema „Seeing oneself as 'The people': Populism increases opinion projection on foreign policy issues“.

Alle sind willkommen!

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

"Painfully accurate"

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

In a matter of a few months, I've turned into a master of the urinary universe. #AcademicChatter

I'm a urologist now - kai arzheimer

Fake editors > Nigerian princes+Russian beauties

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d

Fascinating, BUT: views of empire are probably rather peripheral for most voters most of the time, and highly correlated with more general values and ideology 🇬🇧🗳️

Study shows views of British empire shape voting behaviour – but in subtle ways

Imperial nostalgia correlates strongly with support beyond the main parties: positively with Reform and negatively with the Greens.

theconversation.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

We're all asking the same question: 'What is the point of annexing Greenland other than Donald Trump's 1970s real estate mindset?'

Stephen Miller Is Too Much of a Schmuck to be a Lousy Realist: Greenland edition

Stephen Miller is the most powerful and malevolent actor in the Trump Administration other than Trump himself. His personal history is choc...

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

Your friendly neighbourhood bot @rrresrobot.bsky.social is finally leaving the cesspit. Please consider following it here.

A screenshot from X announcing the planned departure of RRResRobot (which exists also on Bluesky and Mastodon)

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

Words to live by

Commander Riker looking askance, text overlay: "Intend your puns, you coward."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder that everything went to hell at precisely the moment that we lost the Starman z”l. Happy birthday, Ziggy.

(Photos: Berlin Schöneberg, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2018)

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

Pity. I mean, 'one of my journals'? I was suitably impressed 😉

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

'Hey ChatGPT, ask a rhetorical question, please'

How worried should we be that political leaders keep making oblique Nazi references?

The dog whistle was brought out fairly frequently in 2025 as rightwing political figures tested our limits.

theconversation.com

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 4d

Top Paris judge warns US against meddling ahead of Le Pen appeal trial

American sanctions on French judiciary “would constitute unacceptable and intolerable interference,” says court president.

www.politico.eu

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 5d

Make German Politics Boring Again. Pretty please.

German state’s ruling coalition collapses over infighting within populist left party

The center-left state premier will remain in office as the leader of a minority government for the time being.

www.politico.eu

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 5d

If you're curious about survey methodology, have a look at this old-ish article about how to assess bias in surveys. www.kai-arzheimer.com/assessing-bi.... #Research #France

Analysing Bias in French Pre-Election Surveys with surveybias for Stata (example 1/3) - kai arzheimer

In a recent publication (Arzheimer & Evans 2014), we propose a new multinomial measure B for bias in opinion surveys. We also supply a suite of ado files for Stata, surveybias, which plugs into Stata's framework for estimation programs and provides estimates for this and other measures along with their standard errors. This is the first instalment in a mini series of posts that show how our commands can be used with real-world data. Here, we analyse the quality of a single French pre-election poll.

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