Political scientist / PI REXKLIMA @TUDresden_DE / Affiliated @CrexUiO @WZB_Berlin / PhD @EUI_EU / Social movements, political parties & democracy / AUT & GER
Dresden & Vienna
Joined February 2013
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Now out in the latest Annual Review Issue of the @JCMS_EU: "German Politics in Times of #Crises: The Success of the Post-Merkel #Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election" - an analysis of Germany's federal election in February 2025! 📚
➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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S. Volk and M. Weisskircher. “Defending Democracy Against the 'Corona Dictatorship'? Far-Right PEGIDA During the COVID-19 Pandemic”. In: Social Movement Studies online first (2023), pp. 1-19. dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.….
New article! 📚
"German Politics in #Times of #Crises: The Success of the Post-Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election" is out in the @JCMS_EU.
Not the Scholz government, but the CDU's return may deepen the break with Merkel's legacy.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Key topics: (1) The dysfunctional #Scholz government & conflict over fiscal policy, (2) AfD's success in the #east, (3) the 2025 #campaign, (4) the results (incl. comeback of Die #Linke), (5) coalition #negotiations.
Thanks to A. Heinze, M. Koß & E. Oertel for their feedback!
New article! 📚
"A Normal(ised) Far-Right Party? A Long-Term Perspective on the #FPÖ's Electoral Strength in 🇦🇹" out in @po_qu. It analyses (I) long-term organizational integration, (II) the 2024 success & (III) growing elite openess towards the FPÖ.
➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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📚 Neue Publikation!
Meine Dissertation zum staatlich organisierten Jubiläumsgedenken an den Kommunismus ist online. Im Fokus: eine Ausstellung – untersucht mithilfe einer Analytik, die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften miteinander ins Gespräch bringt.
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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WAHNSINN IN SCHWARZ UND WEIẞ! Wir sind MEISTER!🖤🤍 #sturmgraz #AdmiralBL #STUWAC
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STU 1:1 WAC |⏱️90+5‘
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attitudes, ideology, personality: M. Beyer and M. Weisskircher. “Love as a Key Emotion for the Far Right? Environmentalism, Affective Politics and the Anastasia Ecological Settler Movement In Germany”. In: Environmental Values (2024), p. online first.
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🎙️Doppel-Torschütze William #Bøving zu dem fulminanten Erfolg: „Es sind immer sehr harte Spiele gegen Salzburg. Aber was heute hier in Liebenau wieder los war – das kann man nicht in Worte fassen! Das Team und die Fans sind so eine Einheit, sie haben uns zum Sieg getragen!“ #sturmgraz #AdmiralBL #STURBS
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Das war der blanke Wahnsinn! Wir gewinnen mit 4:2.🤩🤩 #sturmgraz #AdmiralBL #STURBS
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STU 4:2 RBS |⏱️90+5'
I recommend this insightful article in @TheGuardian on local conflicts over wind farms in forest areas and the far-right AfD’s #climate obstruction - featuring research by my great colleague Matthias Diermeier and myself. 📰
theguardian.com/environment/… #REXKLIMA
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Heute vor drei Jahren verstarb unser Jahrhunderttrainer Ivica #Osim - für immer in unseren Herzen, Švabo! 🖤 #sturmgraz
An interesting article on how far-right parties in Europe have responded to Trump's tariff policy, with some remarks of mine on how this could impact their electoral fortunes.
ft.com/content/af3c5cfe-6b63…
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Our paper with @PietroCastelliG is now out in the latest issue of @govandopp!
We interviewed 25 far-right activists in Italy during COVID-19 to explore how they reframed migration narratives while the issue faded from public attention.
More here👇
New paper with @PietroCastelliG just out on @govandopp in open access
doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.20
We interviewed 25 far-right activists during COVID-19 in Italy to understand how they recast narratives on migration at a time in which the issue was no longer under the spotlight
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🆕 Neue Publikation! Welche Entwicklungen prägen das Parteiensystem Sachsens?
"Das Parteiensystem in #Sachsen. Jahrzehntelange CDU-Dominanz und die Herausforderung der AfD im Parlament und auf der Straße" im großartigen Sammelband von Heinze et al. 📚
link.springer.com/chapter/10…
Now in the latest issue of Environmental Values:
Our article "Love as a key emotion for the far right?" (w/ M. Beyer) critically studies how far-right discourse mobilizes #emotions beyond anger or fear, bridging the research on emotions & the far right.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
What's the goal of political science?
When teaching I always borrow Mario Vargas Llosa's great sentence from his novel The Storyteller: "One who knows causes and consequences has wisdom, #perhaps."
A fantastic author has left us. 📚
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Using GSOEP data, Richard Traunmüller and I discuss direct and indirect voter migration. We show that workers were more likely to vote AfD than other parties in 2017, even if they previously voted or identified themselves with the Social Democrats. link.springer.com/article/10… 1/3
