Book chapter (draft, in German) on the distribution of values/value orientations in Europe (East and West). For Eastern Europeans, security is the most important value. East Germans are stuck in the middle between Eastern and Western Europe.
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Fails/Pierce 2010 article in Political Research Quarterly 2010 is easily the most interesting paper I have read during the last Academic Year (btw, here are my lecture notes). Ever since the 1950s, mainstream political science has claimed that mass attitudes on democracy matter for the stability of democracy,…
Believe it or not: My institution will play host to the 2013 instalment of the ECPR’s highly successful Joint Sessions of Workshops conference series.
A group of my students has programmed a short online questionnaire on democratic attitudes. Please do feel free to help them with their work by participating and sharing the link. The survey is short, fun and completely anonymous: http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/survey/index.php?sid=95262&lang=en
Recently, I re-ran my scripts on a new data set that extends the old series all through the naughties. As you can see, party ID in Germany is not exactly alive and kicking, but the rate of decline has fallen considerably over the last decade.
Sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Which, in my case, might be a little simulation of a random process involving an unordered categorical variable. In R, sampling from a multinomial distribution is trivial. rmultinom(1,1000,c(.1,.7,.2,.1)) gives me a vector of random numbers from a multinomial distribution with outcomes 1, 2, 3, and…
Colleagues over at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham have started yet another political science blog. Its official name is “Ballots & Bullets”, but I find its URL nottspolitics.org rather more memorable. They started out only six weeks ago, but the range of topics and the number of articles…
Vortrag am Forschungscluster “Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeiten und soziale Netzwerke” über Zitationsnetzwerke und Kollaborationsnetzwerke in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft. Basiert auf [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2009]
This is a presentation on the electoral sociology of the Extreme Right that I gave at an excellent short conference at Strasbourg. The full PDF is here: Who votes for the Extreme Right? The presentation eventually resulted in this publication: [bibtex file=ka.bib key=arzheimer-2012d]
This is a talk I gave at the legendary ECPR General Conference at the University of Potsdam. Still very much work in progress, I’m afraid. Here is the full paper: A Matter of Timing? The Dynamics of Radical Right Party Support and Mainstream Parties’ Programmatic Change in France