Kai Arzheimer
@kai-arzheimer.com
Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/
Incidentally, reading for work 𝘤𝘢𝘯 simultaneously be reading for pleasure. Yet, more often than not, it's reading for pain.
Kai Arzheimer@kai-arzheimer.com · 2d agoIf you're not reading for pleasure, you should be reading for work 👇
Things we don't tell you until after you enroll: 'According to one tale, the Peronist politician told Isabel to lie beside the body of Eva Perón so that the Evita political magic would rub off on to her.'
'He was tasked with making the body disappear': The macabre kidnapping of Eva Perón's corpse
Argentina's iconic first lady died in July 1952. Sixty years on, the BBC looked back at her cadaver's bizarre disappearance – and its 16-year journey around the globe.
bbc.co.uk
"The false reports have been cleverly designed so that they appear to come from major German media outlets, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Stern TV, ARD and Spiegel TV. But the videos are as false as the allegations they make"
Fact check: Russian disinformation targets German elections
Ahead of four elections in Germany this fall, dozens of fake posts are circulating online aimed at discrediting candidates and portraying Germany as divided. Analysts warn that Russia is now targeting local candidates.
dw.com
populism: M. J. Burger and S. Eiselt. “Subjective Well-Being and Populist Voting in the Netherlands”. In: Journal of Happiness Studies 24.7 (Oct. 2023), pp. 2331-2352. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-023-00685-9.
Are you looking for a good home for your research on the dynamics of #farright mobilisation and its implications for democracy? Look no further than this call 📣 We're particularly interested in innovative theoretical and empirical studies that critically engage with the radical–extreme distinction
Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformation
This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...
nature.com
Dear colleagues, I just emailed about 50 of you and received 19 (in words: nineteen) autoreplies within literal seconds. You are doing this whole summer break thing right. #AcademicChatter
new-ish paper: no country for country bumpkins
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Are you interested in the #AfD? A. Heinze and T. Scheuer. “Growing Up Far Right? Youth Support for the AfD in Eastern Germany”. In: German Politics 0.0 (Nov. 2025), pp. 1-31. dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2025.2587919.
I miss the days when all we had to worry about was a bunch of harmless weirdos doing some "yogic flying".
'That the death sentence for electoral processes was pronounced precisely on the day that commemorates the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution completed the bitterest irony'
Daniel Ortega establishes Latin America’s last dictatorship in Nicaragua
The authoritarian leader’s announcement of eradicating electoral processes seals the autocratic drift in the Central American country and paves the way for a new family dynasty
english.elpais.com
Old school neo-fascism in #Germany: 3rd Way Check it out here: www.kai-arzheimer.com/germany-old-....
It’s worth repeating on a regular basis: the Trump administration’s corruption is truly unprecedented. I get why Trump is seeking bribes. What I’m less sure about is how the bribers think this will end. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-corrup...
The Corruption Is the Point
An awful lot of folks are okay with bribing Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. What will the reckoning look like -- or will it happen at all?
danieldrezner.substack.com
You may have missed it b/c of all the talk about the inexorable rise of the right in Germany, but the #AfD's national leadership and the party's largest state branch have reached the stage where they are communicating via their respective lawyers.
AfD: NRW-Landesführung der AfD geht mit Anwalt gegen den Bundesvorstand vor
Eine Kommission der Bundespartei soll in Protokolle und Karteien des AfD-Landesvorstands in NRW schauen. Der wehrt sich. Dafür gebe es keine Rechtsgrundlage.
zeit.de
Give me logits or give me death - or, even better, predicted probabilities & friends
Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd
When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes,[1]For example, hit vs. miss, correct vs...
the100.ci
F. Hafez. “Shifting Borders: Islamophobia as Common Ground for Building Pan-European Right-Wing Unity”. In: Patterns of Prejudice 48.5 (2014), pp. 479-499. dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2014.965877.
Burying the lede: Farage is almost as unpopular as Starmer
Why the questions about Reform UK and its wealthy donors won’t go away
There have been more claims about Reform UK and its finances. In fact, it has become so complicated ...
theconversation.com
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Will not change one thing, but I'm happy to report that they are in the you'll-hear-from-our-lawyers phase
Out in the open: AfD infighting
We're back in "Putsch in the AFD!!!" territory. Will it matter? No. Is it faintly amusing? Also no. Is it important? Perhaps. Related posts: Four far-right links I liked 4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany Six More Links I Liked
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Are you looking for a good home for your research on the dynamics of #farright mobilisation and its implications for democracy? Look no further than this call 📣 We're particularly interested in innovative theoretical and empirical studies that critically engage with the radical–extreme distinction
Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformation
This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...
nature.com
Dear colleagues, I just emailed about 50 of you and received 19 (in words: nineteen) autoreplies within literal seconds. You are doing this whole summer break thing right. #AcademicChatter