A5051914189- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- German legal, social, and political studies
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- European Union Policy and Governance
- Social Media and Politics
- Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Political Systems and Governance
- Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Game Theory and Voting Systems
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Statistical and Computational Modeling
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Data Analysis with R
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2015-2024
University of Applied Sciences Mainz
2013-2023
University of Mannheim
2020
University of Essex
2007-2011
University of Salford
2009
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
2006
West European right‐wing extremist parties have received a great deal of attention over the past two decades due to their electoral success. What has less coverage, however, is fact that these not enjoyed consistent level support across Western Europe during this period. This article puts forward an explanation variation in party vote incorporates wider range factors than been considered previously. It begins by examining impact socio‐demographic variables on vote. Then, it turns its whole...
Research on the voters of extreme right in Western Europe has become a minor industry, but relatively little attention been paid to twin question why support for these parties is often unstable, and so weak many countries. Moreover, findings from different studies contradict each other. This article aims at providing more comprehensive satisfactory answer this research problem by employing broader database adequate modeling strategy. The main finding that while immigration unemployment rates...
AbstractWithin less than two years of being founded by disgruntled members the governing CDU, newly formed Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has already performed extraordinarily well in 2013 general election, 2014 EP and a string state elections. Highly unusually German standards, it campaigned an end to all efforts save euro argued reconfiguration Germany’s foreign policy. This seems chime with recent surge far-right voting Western Europe, AfD was subsequently described as right-wing...
This article examines the relationship between Christian religiosity and support for radical right parties in Western Europe. Drawing on theories of electoral choice socio-psychological literature largely ignored by scholars behaviour, it suggests tests a number competing hypotheses. The findings demonstrate that while has few direct effects, religious people are neither more nor less hostile towards ethnic minorities thereby prone to vote party, they not 'available' these because still...
Abstract The notion of ‘place’ has become a central concern in research on the populist radical right (PRR), but scholars seem to have different things mind when talking about how geography affects individual political attitudes. In our paper, we therefore aim structure debate impact place and understand exactly PRR attitudes (nativism, right-wing authoritarianism, populism). Conceptually, identify four potentially relevant aspects that underpin much current literature: place-related...
Abstract Populist radical right (PRR) parties are often more successful in some regions of their countries than others. However, previous research shows that the relationship between context and PRR support is not straightforward. We develop test an expanded framework linking local conditions to through two causal mechanisms. First, we argue economic cultural contextual factors can influence citizens by fostering a sense perceived decline, which turn predicts both populist nativist attitudes...
"Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe." West European Politics, 35(5), pp. 1208–1209
Using new data for the 1977–2012 period, this article shows that dealignment has halted during last decade amongst older and better educated West German voters, party identification is now more widespread than it was in 1990s east. For voters who identified with one of relevant parties at time 2013 election, their vote choice or less a foregone conclusion, as candidates issues played only minor role group. A detailed analysis leftist supporters Greens, Left, SPD have broadly similar...
The degree of ‘localness’ candidates, including their residential location, has long been theorised to influence voters at election time. Individual-level tests distance effects in the 2010 British general elections demonstrated that, controlling for standard explanations vote, from a voter’s home that candidate was negatively associated with likelihood voting candidate. To test this theory sub-national electoral context more likely produce than national election, paper builds upon previous...
Abstract Based on an aggregate analysis of the French regional elections 2004, Kestilä and Söderlund, in their 2007 article, ‘Subnational Political Opportunity Structures Success Radical Right: Evidence from March 2004 Regional Elections France’, examine impact subnational political opportunity structures success radical right argue that such approach can control for a wider range factors provide more reliable results than cross‐national analyses. The present article disputes this claim...