Mit der Deutschen Presseagentur habe ich ausführlich über den Rücktritt von Malu Dreyer und die Nachfolgeregelung in der Landespartei gesprochen. Wer es lesen möchte: Zeit Online hat den Text übernommen und bietet ihn ohne Paywall an. https://www.zeit.de/news/2024-06/23/parteienforscher-arzheimer-sieht-spd-gut-aufgestellt
Mit Tagesschau24 habe ich über den Verfassungsschutzbericht für das Jahr 2023 und die politischen Schlussfolgerungen daraus gesprochen. Das Video dazu gibt es hier. https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-1350020.html
This week, the Internet is full of interesting stuff about the 2024 European elections, which were sort of momentous. Here are four links I liked, and one that helped me to cope.
With just two days to go, this is my last look at AfD support in the polls before the 2024 EP elections.
The old Internet was full of stuff like this: people giving a lot of thought to the earnest analysis of entirely fictional worlds. We should bring that culture back.
Nicole Chen interviewed various colleagues and me for an article about Germany’s never-again-is-now moment in “Yale’s undergraduate journal of politics and culture”. I rather like the result. https://thepolitic.org/article/never-again-is-right-now-the-rise-of-the-afd-in-germany
This is an excellent longread, which is based on actual science: the author has talked to many colleagues and me, and much of what we told him made it into the final product.
Mit dem Handelsblatt habe ich ausführlich über die Hintergründe des öffentlich ausgetragenen Streits zwischen dem Rassemblement National und der AfD (bzw. Krah) gesprochen. Der Artikel ist momentan nicht hinter einer Paywall. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/europawahl-nach-ss-eklat-afd-spitze-greift-gegen-krah-durch-01/100039144.html
I gave 20 minutes of my life to a journalist who wrote up the story of Germany’s biggest terrorism trial “for an American audience”, which is a phrase that inspires all sorts of despair. But one of my many wonderful quotes made it into the final product. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/21/prince-heinrich-reichsburger-plot-trial
As an editorial assistant or even associate editor, how do you entice me to review something for your Q2 journal? Easy, actually: On a Saturday morning, send me a generic invitation to review. Make sure that the manuscript is tangential to my own research interests/area of expertise. Extra points if I have never published in…