Why is partisan dealignment slowing down in Germany? One part of the puzzle is the spread and changing role of formal education. In recent years, dealignment has mostly been confined to the lower-education strata.
The International German Politics Association has a blog Levels of Academic Evidence. Very low numbers for ND & PASOK among young voters. #ekloges2015 This is what has happened to Pasok’s vote in Greece. An absolute collapse
PHD Comics: Average time spent writing one e-mail Replication redux and Facebook data, by Neal Beck | OUPblog RT @GermanEmbassy: #Germany remains key destination for migrants: Net #migration at 20-year high
Update: 542 in favour, 32 voting against, 13 abstentions. Nays & abstentions all from CDU, CSU, Left, apparently. See you in June. In about an hour, Germany’s parliament will have a debate on the extension of the bailout program for Greece that is scheduled to take all of a cool 90 minutes. It will be…
Update [su_box title="Publication"]This post has turned into a proper journal article (follow the link for an ungated pre-print) [bibtex file=ka.bib sort=year order=desc key=arzheimer-2017b][/su_box] Original 2015 post Almost a decade ago, I published an article with a cutesy title on the decline of party identification in Germany, of which I am inordinately proud. The main message…
Philip Converse obit – The Washington Post http://t.co/NlDQS8yahl @gilaschauer: Articles in the Guardian today reminded me to be grateful that there is no #REF in Germany yet. http://t.co/G302QiQ4GX Executive summary: How to vote in Greece. H/T @A_Katsanidou http://t.co/qzo8HIq7um Crossing the line: #Farage attacks pupils’ #Ukip parody app featuring Nicholas Fromage | Politics | The Guardian…
This is old news now: “In German City Rich With History and Tragedy, Tide Rises Against Immigration” – http://t.co/AyxbdmcKoQ #Pegida Mind the comma: RT @AcademicsSay: cc @CelebrityOxford http://t.co/DBZTJBZZgr Germany Reopens Case of Oktoberfest Bombing – http://t.co/MTMqAzaMNJ Nigel #Farage asked former Conservative MP Enoch #Powell to endorse #Ukip | Politics | The Guardian http://t.co/BqHsEywGwn Tweeting Ferguson:…
So the old @Uni_of_Essex radicalism is back, in unlikely places: For radical #Greek politicians, #TOWIE – Telegraph http://t.co/QCCbBbAslH @alexandreafonso: Marx on immigration, 1870. Could have been written today http://t.co/2wtPjsmyyz http://t.co/0bHq3ZukLF Engaging/provocative/mad as ever: Hey, who you calling a ‘Crusader’?! http://t.co/zTsMW9VK51 (@asecondmouse)
… but then again, they don’t really care about the issue anyway. See my contribution on the LSE’s EUROPP blog for details, implications, T&C. Photo by dullhunk
The utterly erratic and ridiculously eclectic bibliography on far-right parties and their voters has been online for nearly five years now and contains just under 500 references. Obviously, it’s time for some semi-serious statistical analysis. To kick things off, I’m looking at the distribution of articles across journals, which is dominated by (surprise!) European and…