The far right is not the driving force behind the farmers' protests, but their style is indicative of an erosion of democratic norms in Germany RELATED POSTS: Political beliefs & multi-partyi...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/is-the-far-right-behind-the-large-scale-farmers-protests-in-germany/
Mit Dietmar Neuerer habe ich ausführlich über den Leidensweg des Heizungsgesetzes und die Dauerkrise der Koalition gesprochen. Das Interview ist zum größeren Teil hinter einer Paywall, aber g...
Was hat die Wärmepumpe zum politischen Symbol gemacht? Was hat die Heizung mit dem Veggie-Day zu tun? Und nützt das alles am Ende nur der AfD? RELATED POSTS: 50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pfa...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/kulturkampf-im-heizungskeller-video-mit-br24/
And apparently I said this: « Les théories du complot fascinent beaucoup plus de monde que l’on ne croit et participent à un processus classique de radicalisation », constate Kai Arzheimer,...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/i-talked-to-la-croix-about-the-reichsburger-movement/
Some traditional right-wing extremist groups will march on May Day. It's an empty, mock-left-authoritarian ritual that does not even mobilise their own constituency. RELATED POSTS: Populismus...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/labour-day-the-extreme-right-in-germany/
How much influence does Russia have on Germany's AfD? And how important is the AfD for Russia? Here are some of my findings from a longer report on Russia and the populist right in Europe RELATE...
Thanks to the slightly bizarre plot to overthrow the government of Germany, I got an outing on The National, Canada’s main nightly news show. Of course, most of the 20 minutes or so that we tal...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/i-talked-to-the-cbc-about-the-failed-reichsburger-plot/
Here is a new working paper about the disproportionate success of the AfD and the Left in Germany's eastern states RELATED POSTS: Six More Links I Liked Political Interest Props Up Partisans...
I talked to a journalist from Portugal about the ongoing conflict between the FDP and the Greens over nuclear energy, and Scholz’s attempt to resolve it by referring to his constitutional prero...
Dealing with regionalised German government data is and remains a right pain, but at least past me has not been his usual idiotic self RELATED POSTS: Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/local-government-data-loving-past-me/
In 2016, Germany’s “Office for the Protection of the Constitution”, a.k.a. the spooks, put the German branch of the Identitarian Movement under surveillance. They are also listed in the Off...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germany-the-identitarian-movement-remains-under-surveillance/
One morning at the train station, I saw this spoof campaign poster featuring Christian Lindner as he channels Marie Antoinette RELATED POSTS: “Why did Greece leave the Euro?” Campaign Comm...
There, nailed it for you. No related posts.
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-zeitenwende-illustrated/
For better (seriously?) or worse (you betcha!), politics and religion are intimately intertwined. While everyone and their grandfather (and especially their grandfather) gets worked up about immi...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/how-do-you-measure-political-secularism-at-the-individual-level/
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action RELATED POSTS: 4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany The unborn and the undead S...
Why is the #AfD so strong in Germany's eastern states, and what role do they play for the party? RELATED POSTS: Sports Cars, Sleaze and Gamma Rays: Rhineland-Palatinate Elects Its FirstRed-Gr...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-afd-and-the-east-west-divide-in-german-politics/
The good folks at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin have invited me for a talk about our ORA project on subnational contexts and the Radical Right in general, and some findings on the German case in pa...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/score-geography-radical-right-resentment-germany/
My piece on the role that Germany’s eastern states – the territory of the former GDR – have played for the breakthrough and rise of the radical right Alternative for Germany has been “for...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-afd-2013-2021-much-much-stronger-in-the-eastern-states/
Cas Mudde and I discuss the 2021 German federal elections RELATED POSTS: 4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany Six More Links I Liked Brexit : What I learned...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/cas-mudde-and-i-talk-about-the-2021-german-federal-elections/
In all likelihood, Germany's next government will be more secular than most of its predecessors. Here is why. RELATED POSTS: Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/germanys-next-government-could-be-the-most-secular-in-decades/
Over at The Atlantic, Yasmeen Serhan has an interesting article about far-right politics in Germany and its implications for the wider world, with some choice quotes from Constanze Stelzenmüller...
Everyone who cares about German elections is very excited by now, because it’s just over a week until election day. And I realise that I have not blogged about this election at all. One reason ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/mldp-the-internationalist-boys-are-back-in-town/
Just for the fun of it, I have turned my recent article on Germans’ support for pre-implantation genetic diagnostics (PGD) into a short video. If you want to know why Germans would rather have ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/secularism-and-genetic-testing-in-germany-new-research-video/
Neat summary of where we stand by Isabelle Hertner RELATED POSTS: Brexit : What I learned from watching BBC News for 48 hours straight Six More Links I Liked Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-...
This is excellent No related posts.
Is there a political gender gap amongst young Germans? Gender gaps are everywhere, but there are some places where they are less likely. According to the authors, young Germans represent a least ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/what-we-were-reading-the-gender-gap-in-youth-political-participation/
Large parts of the GOP are nominally opposed to big government. But they have done nothing to stop the growth of ever more armed police forces – on the contrary. This long read about law enforc...
What? I’m currently working on a paper that looks into the role that Germany’s eastern states (aka “the new Länder”, the ex-GDR …) played for the breakthrough and the consolidation of ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/how-important-are-germanys-eastern-states-for-the-afd/
Die Umfragewerte der AfD sind vergleichsweise schlecht, in der Corona-Krise ist die Partei kein relevanter Akteur. Die Gründe dafür sind nicht ganz neu. Mit dem Kurier aus Wien habe ich über d...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/gesprach-mit-dem-kurier-uber-den-zustand-der-afd/
Das Handelsblatt hat mit Politikern und Politikwissenschaftlern über den Ausschluss von Andreas Kalbitz aus der AfD gesprochen. RELATED POSTS: Educated trolls 50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-Pf...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/afd-schliest-kalbitz-aus-gesprach-mit-dem-handelsblatt/
Last weekend, thousands of Germans took to the streets to protest against the anti-Corona policies. The scenes were quite extraordinary and were widely reported in German and in international med...
On May the 8th 1945, the Wehrmacht surrendered, bringing the war in Europe and the terror reign of the Nazis to an end.1 40 years later, then-president Richard von Weizsäcker, himself a former o...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/for-germany-may-8-is-a-day-of-liberation-not-of-surrender/
A year ago, Sofia Porcarelli, a student at Occidental College, approached me because she was making a documentary movie about the far right in Germany. That’s way more interesting than a plain ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/video-the-rise-of-the-far-right-in-germany/
Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution (i.e. the spooks) begins to build dossiers on 3 sitting MPs for the AfD. All of them are prominent members of the most radical faction wi...
For the radical right in Europe, Alternative for Germany is an increasingly unusual case In a recent paper published in JCMS, I argue that unlike other German far-right parties, the “Alternati...
Over at Crooked Timber, John Quiggin asks an odd yet interesting question: Would Republican voters rather live under a government like that of Russia, or one like that of California? Barbara McQ...
For all its (perceived) shortcomings, to me the BBC remains the epitome of all that is good and great about public radio. This is why I always find it exciting, exhilarating and also slightly sca...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/bbc-interview-the-dresden-nazi-emergency/
LEFT 30.4% AfD 23.5% CDU 22.1% SPD 8.1% GREENS 5.1% FDP 5.1% Source: FGW projection, 8:10pm Why waste my life writing lengthy books that no-one is going to read? Why go through the pain of peer r...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/5-quick-hits-on-the-state-election-in-thuringia/
Today’s elections in Brandenburg & Saxony are sending a new set of shock waves through German politics. Here are some quick thoughts. The AfD polled about 28 per cent in Saxony, their best resu...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/the-regional-elections-in-eastern-germany-quick-hits/
Right-wing terrorism in Germany often goes unnoticed. Politicians, state agencies, the media, and the general public grossly underestimate the size of the problem. But after the murder of a centr...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/right-wing-terrorism-in-germany-interview-with-bbc-newshour/
The AfD was founded near Germany’s financial centre of gravity (Frankfort) by members of the old western elites. But early on, the eastern states of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia became im...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/regional-support-for-the-alternative-for-germany-varies-wildly/
It will take some time to get nearly-final results for Germany, let alone for the EU, but the picture emerging from the exit polls in Germany is reasonably clear. So, in time honoured tradition, ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/4-quick-takes-on-the-result-of-the-2019-european-elections-in-germany/
Mit dem Handelsblatt habe ich über Umfragewerte, Themensetzungen und den idealen Zeitpunkt, für eine Amtsübergabe von Merkel an AKK gesprochen. RELATED POSTS: 50 Jahre Wahlen in Rheinland-P...
Drei Jahrzehnte nach der Wiedervereinigung unterscheiden sich Lebensumstände, Erfahrungen, Einstellungen, Wertorientierungen und politische Verhaltensweisen von Ostdeutschen und Westdeutschen im...
The co-leader of the right-wing populist “Alternative for Germany” finally admits that the received assistance from a Swiss media agency (in German). The price tag? About €90,000. Find the ...
Last year, I did an interview with Luca Manucci for the Populism Observer blog. Luca had some great questions, and I did my best to answer them, based on other people’s and my own research. Tho...
Mit dem Handelsblatt habe ich über einen möglichen Rückzug Alexander Gaulands von seinen Ämtern gesprochen. Es ist fraglich, ob es in der AfD noch einen in irgendeiner Form organisierten gem�...
How do people in cities & the countryside react to the presence or absence of immigrants? How does local decline further radical right mobilisation? Are immigrants becoming convenient scapegoats ...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/local-conditions-radical-right
As (West) European election years go, 2017 was quite something. The French party system changed beyond recognition. The radical right entered Germany’s national parliament for the first time. U...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/video-4-critical-elections-europe-2017
Back in August, Franziska Schreiber made quite a splash with her memoir of the four years she spent inside Germany’s not-so-new-anymore Radical Right party. Schreiber was in her mid-twenties wh...
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/my-five-takeaways-from-the-afd-dropouts-report/