Manès Weisskircher
@manesweisskircher.bsky.social
Head of the Research Group REXKLIMA at TU Dresden & Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University | Researching far-right politics, social movements, political parties, climate politics & democracy
📣 @manesweisskircher.bsky.social: Wie mobilisiert man gegen #Regierungspolitik, ohne mit der größten #Oppositionspartei zu kooperieren oder von ihr vereinnahmt zu werden? Das hat schon manche soziale Bewegung vor Probleme gestellt. @fr-zeitung.bsky.social:
Wo bleiben die Proteste gegen den Sozialabbau?
Die Regierung zerlegt den Sozialstaat – doch massiver Widerstand regt sich kaum. Warum? Protestforscher Manès Weisskircher zählt dafür gleich mehrere Gründe auf.
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Ein paar Einschätzungen von mir zu den momentanen Kabinettsumbildungsprozessen in @zdfheute.de.web.brid.gy 👇 www.zdfheute.de/video/zdfheu...
"Kabinettsumbildungen sind eine heikle Sache"
Politologe Debus sieht Merz trotz des Personalchaos "gefestigt". Es komme nun darauf an, wie schnell man aus Fehlern lerne, sagt er bei ZDFheute live.
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🧵 Neu & Open Access: Mein Kapitel in der Neuauflage des Handbuchs Vergleichende PoWi zur Entwicklung der Wahlforschung – von US-zentriert zu global & vergleichend 📚👇
Wahlforschung in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft
In den 1970er-Jahren hat sich die bis dahin US-amerikanisch geprägte Wahlforschung internationalisiert. Seit den 1990er-Jahren ist der Mainstream der Wahlforschung vergleichend ausgerichtet, da sich die Wirkung institutioneller und anderer kontextueller...
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Which city/district councils have live streams of their meeting and can they serve as a data source for political scientists? Do politicians behave differently when they are on a live stream? Find out in the open access research note by Paul Reimers (in German) doi.org/10.1007/s11615-026-00672-8
Bridging the Gap? Liveübertragungen in Kreistagen und Stadträten als Datengrundlage für die politikwissenschaftliche Forschung - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The scarcity of meeting minutes makes it difficult to analyze the working methods of local political bodies and the behavior of the actors involved. The increasing availability of livestreams and video recordings of district and city council meetings is helping to remedy this situation. Combined with technical innovations for extracting and processing large (multimodal) datasets, this availability enables new perspectives for local political research. However, for this wealth of data to be widely used, it must be generalizable to the broader population of local government bodies. Accordingly, questions arise regarding whether districts and cities that offer livestreams and recordings differ systematically from those that do not and whether these broadcasts induce shifts in local political debates.To this end, based on systematic research and a survey of district council members, this study describes the legal, political, and financial framework for introducing such recordings and examines the resulting influence on speakers’ behavior. Meeting recordings are available, particularly in large cities, but have so far been scarce in districts with low population density; furthermore, significant differences exist among the federal states. The survey indicates that adjustments to expanded public visibility of meetings are also occurring at the local level. Thus, the external validity of meeting recordings as a data source is not yet established, which should be taken into account during research design and case selection.
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Die politische Linke “schafft es derzeit nicht, alternative wirtschafts- und sozialpolitische Modelle so zu entwerfen, dass sie starken Widerhall in der öffentlichen Debatte finden.” Sehr starkes Interview mit @manesweisskircher.bsky.social
Wo bleiben die Proteste gegen den Sozialabbau?
Die Regierung zerlegt den Sozialstaat – doch massiver Widerstand regt sich kaum. Warum? Protestforscher Manès Weisskircher zählt dafür gleich mehrere Gründe auf.
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Sehr gutes Interview mit @manesweisskircher.bsky.social zur Frage, warum es angesichts des Sozialabbaus so still bleibt: "Die Linke ist wirtschafts- und sozialpolitisch ins Hintertreffen geraten. Die Krise der Demokratie ist auch eine Krise der Sozialdemokratie." www.fr.de/politik/wo-b...
Wo bleiben die Proteste gegen den Sozialabbau?
Die Regierung zerlegt den Sozialstaat – doch massiver Widerstand regt sich kaum. Warum? Protestforscher Manès Weisskircher zählt dafür gleich mehrere Gründe auf.
fr.de
Remember the collapse of Germany's "traffic light" coalition in November 2024? Ever wondered how this affects citizens' attitudes? Look no further: @cyrillotteni.bsky.social and I got you covered in our new article, out now in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 🧵 📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Gesetzesbeschlüsse im @parlament.gv.at werden idR von Regierungsmehrheiten getragen. Aber Oppositionsparteien stimmen oft mit. Selbst die FPÖ hat 2026 bisher bei rund 40% aller Gesetzesbeschlüsse zugestimmt.
In this oa contribution to Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Jale Tosun, Nils Schütz, Elisabeth Maikranz and I show that the programmatic gap between churches and Christian Democratic parties in Germany on the issue of migration has widened over the years. rdcu.be/ft6wy /1
"Five years after Höhne (2021) and Heinze/Weisskircher (2021), the AfD’s internal democracy is still alive and, yes, allegedly kicking." Read this post on the AfD's latest infighting - or explore my study with @manesweisskircher.bsky.social: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg... 📖🔓
Kai Arzheimer@kai-arzheimer.com · 3w agoAfter a prolonged period of unusual unity, it's heartwarming to see that the #farright #AfD is back at it. Does not change the bigger picture of parallel radicalisation and normalisation, but criminally underreported nonetheless. So I wrote a very short post about it 👇
After a prolonged period of unusual unity, it's heartwarming to see that the #farright #AfD is back at it. Does not change the bigger picture of parallel radicalisation and normalisation, but criminally underreported nonetheless. So I wrote a very short post about it 👇
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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Participants: @leaelsaesser.bsky.social, @davidmeiering.bsky.social, @tillhilmar.bsky.social @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @gefjonoff.bsky.social, @pauluswagner.bsky.social, @manesweisskircher.bsky.social, @nilskumkar.bsky.social, Elgen Sauerborn, Aletta Diefenbach, Julia Leser, Felix Butzlaff
Last week, we had a lovely launch of the DFG Research Network "Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion" that I coordinate with Lena Röllicke & Anna Berg. Over the next three years, we want to add to the current revival of qualitative political research. More here: linuswestheuser.com/dfg-network-...
7.) @manesweisskircher.bsky.social, Matthias Diermeier, @leosig.bsky.social, Zadekia Krondorfer & Elisabeth Oertel: Explaining Attitudes towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany: AfD vs. the Greens, the East vs. the West, Wind vs. Solar Energy
This article analyses the drivers of individual-level support for – and opposition to – renewable energy in general, as well as wind and solar power specifically. We focus on the crucial case of Ge...
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Thanks to all the contributors & to my co-editors for the collaboration! 💐🤝 @manesweisskircher.bsky.social, @gertpickel.bsky.social & Steffen Kailitz (@hait-tud.bsky.social)
🥳 New – and final – article of our #SpecialIssue on the #AfD in eastern Germany out now in #GermanPolitics! 🎉 If you're interested in the #FarRight in #Germany, you might want to have a look at our intro, which brings together the key findings of 10 exciting contributions: doi.org/10.1080/0964... 🔓👇
📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social
1/ I'm delighted to share my latest article: The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion: Three analytical pathways, now published in Irish Political Studies www.flyn.to/LopOj99 @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social
The mainstreaming of the far right and democratic erosion. Three analytical pathways
This lecture, delivered in memory of Peter Mair, discusses how political scientists can account for the far right's evolving relationship with democracy as far-right actors become increasingly inte...
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New paper w/ @lukaslehner.bsky.social in Journal of European Social Policy showing that contributory social insurance systems can be a viable tool to reconcile the deservingness conceptions of the political right with the solidaristic outcomes favoured by the political left: doi.org/10.1177/0958...
🚀 New publication! Super happy that my study on local responses to the #FarRight is now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social! 😍 Focusing on mayors in Germany, I show why their role perceptions are crucial for maintaining the #Brandmauer (cordon sanitaire). 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474... #OpenAccess
I might be biased – aber nächste Woche erscheint ein ziemlich interessant klingender Band über den Parlamentarischen Rat. Schaut mal rein, wenn Ihr mögt: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536049...
Das improvisierte Parlament
Ein zentraler Gründungsmoment der Bundesrepublik im prekären Kontext der Nachkriegsgesellschaft. Der Parlamentarische Rat ist ein zentraler Ort der westdeutschen Staatsgründung, und doch ist er als I...
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🎉 Publication Day! 🥳 And this one feels special: after many years of wondering about, studying, and learning from #PartyYouthWings, my comparative study on German PYWs is now out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecpr.bsky.social
Take a look at Ramona Coman @nathaliebrack.bsky.social & @miscoiu.bsky.social special issue "Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament" With @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social & more link.springer.com/collections/...
Liberal Democracy under Debate: Dissensus and Competing Conceptions in the European Parliament
This Special Issue examines how democracy is being redefined and contested across the European Union. Moving beyond narratives of democratic backsliding, it ...
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🚨 🚨 🚨 new publication (with @antonialang.bsky.social) klaxon!!! Over the past decade, scholars have increasingly turned to “place” as a key factor in political behaviour — particularly on the far right, in Europe & the US. Urban-rural divides are especially intriguing. But are they true cleavages? 🤔
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@manesweisskircher.bsky.social et al. dissect the drivers of opposition to renewable energy along different political (party preference) and spatial (urban/rural, east/west) differences and types of renewable energy (wind/solar): doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Heute im Kreisky Forum, 19 Uhr: Marcel Lewandowsky hat mit „Was Populisten wollen“ eines der substanziellsten Bücher zum Thema geschrieben. Jüngst… 1/2
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
It's way past time, so here comes the spring/summer 2026 update of the #FarRight bibliography. It's the third-largest ever and brings you 130 shiny new references, most of them published in the last 12 months. Buckle up for a 🧵 (or click the link for the article. Or do both?)
