Marvin Stein

(PDF) Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP PDF | Die Annotation politischer Diskurse ist traditionell zeit- und personalintensiv. Die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Bereich NLP versprechen allerdings... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Finally out: Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP (DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2402218, www.researchgate.net/publication/...): How far can we replicate manual discourse annotation with NLP tools?

Happy to share first insights from our project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ at this year’s @protestinstitut.bsky.social conference in Bremen. We processed 30+ datasets with @gesis.org , covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Releasing soon via GESIS.

DP-REX | @dprex.bsky.social is now also on BlueSky! The data portal for data on right-wing #extremism, #racism, #antisemitism, and all forms of group-focused hostility and #radicalization.

🔗 datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de

If you do research in these areas, it is worth checking out!

Most work out there argues that it doesn't pay off for center-right parties to move closer to the far-right.

Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.

Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.

1/4. We're excited to announce the publication of: "How populist are ethnic minorities? Populist attitudes and voting for populist parties in the Netherlands", by Niels Spierings & Kristof Jacobs.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.

Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.

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From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non-radical right supporters LIE PHILIP SANTOSO

Do party alliances shift voter views? 🤝

A study in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧 finds that when mainstream voters see their party cooperating with radical right parties, they’re more likely to adopt nativist views. Alliances may normalize exclusionary ideas.

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YouTube video by Karl-Renner-Institut Cas Mudde: The Far Right in the Trump Era

I gave a lecture on “The Far Right in the Trump Era” at @renner-institut.at in Vienna this Summer. You can watch it here. 👇

Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.

Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social‬, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.

14 Merkmale des Ur-Faschismus nach Umberto Eco Woran erkennt man ein faschistisches System? Heutzutage werden viele diktatorische Regime und politische Parteien als faschistisch bezeichnet. "Faschismus

Druckt das aus, hängt das auf, in Büros, Kantinen, U-Bahn-Schächten, Hauseingängen, Redaktionen, Lehrer*innenzimmern, Konzertsälen, Geschäften, Bushaltestellen, lasst es in Uni-Treppenhäusern und im Bundestag von den obersten Bereichen flattern!

www.pressenza.com/de/2017/10/1...

Apropos Einsatz der Nationalgarde um vermeintliche criminals zu „crushen“: „Cops must be unleashed and allowed to administer instand punishment“ ist die 4. Übergangsforderung aus Murray Rothbards „Right Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement“. (1992)

MCC Feszt – Normalising the Normalisation of the Far Right MCC’s annual festival is merely a propaganda tool for the far right that the mainstream willingly participates in - writes Gabriela Greilinger

Great article by @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social on Orbán's successful efforts to bring far right and "mainstream right" elites together.

What is important about these recent event though, is that the "mainstream right" and far right now meet on far-right events and, thus, on their terms.

New research supports the "rabbit hole" model of conspiratorial thinking A new study suggests that believing in one conspiracy theory may slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others. The research offers rare causal evidence in support of the long-debated “rabbi...

Research supports “rabbit hole” model of conspiratorial thinking www.psypost.org/new-research... @psypost.bsky.social

"...believing in one conspiracy theory can slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others..."

"...people may develop interconnected systems of conspiratorial thinking..."

In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft...

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

I'd like every current PhD student in political science to chew on this, please.

Starry-eyed fascination with numbers doesn't get you very far if you haven't tried to understand what the things you are measuring mean to actual people.

Die Zufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Lebensstandard hat bei jungen Menschen in den vergangenen Jahren abgenommen, in anderen Altersgruppen jedoch nicht. Das zeigen Daten von infas (tel. Befragung, Zufallsstichprobe, Dual-Frame, n = 2.881, ab 18 Jahre, 1. Quartal 2025).

The conference program for the @protestinstitut.bsky.social ipb conference @unibremen.bsky.social is out: protestinstitut.eu/ipb-conferen...
Come to Bremen on 1 & 2 October for an exiting program with more than 80 presentations.

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy.

Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...

Thrilled to share that The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism is now available. Milan Obaidi's and my goal was to create the book we missed as students—a complete overview over every major perspective in the field.

Despite popular perception, there is no clear evidence of a broad rightward shift among young men.

New study by @nennstielr.bsky.social & @hudde.bsky.social explores political divides btw young men and women - looking back as far as 1990 and using data from 32 EU countries.

tinyurl.com/389b8mmx

Right-wing surge sparks debate about partisanship's effect. My #OpenAccess study shows AfD support lowers trust in the FCC. #Democracy #AfD #PoliticalScience 🌐

Mobilizing the Narrative of Civilizational Clash: The French Far Right and the Fight Against Antisemitism How did the Rassemblement National (RN) transform from one of Europe’s most notoriously antisemitic parties into an apparent ally of Israel? The recent participation of Jordan Bardella and Marion Maré...

Frankreichs Rechte als Kämpfer gegen Antisemitismus?
Bardella & Maréchal geben sich in Jerusalem als Israel-Freunde – und stempeln Linke & Muslime zur neuen Gefahr.
Therese Mager analysiert, wie die RN das Thema instrumentalisiert.
📖 fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/6159
#RN #Antisemitismus #FarRight

(1/5) Der neue EFBI-Digital Report in Kooperation mit der @amadeuantonio.bsky.social widmet sich Tiktok, der Rolle der Social-Media-Plattform während des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2025 und der Mobilisierung junger extrem rechter Gruppen. Zum Report 👉 efbi.de/details/tikt...

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses?

This looks like a must read for you!

"An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization"

osf.io/preprints/so...

Merz zu Regenbogenfahne am CSD: Bundestag "kein Zirkuszelt" Keine Regenbogenflagge am Bundestag zum Christopher Street Day in Berlin: Kanzler Friedrich Merz verteidigt diese Entscheidung von Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner. Grüne und Linke übten Kritik, d...

Beschämend, dass Merz trotz des massiven Anstiegs queerfeindlicher Gewalt und trotz dessen, das kaum ein CSD ungestört stattfinden kann, so verhöhnend über das bisschen Sichtbarkeit von queeren Menschen spricht.

Götz Kubitschek und Maximilian Krah: Diskutiert die extreme Rechte wirklich am interessantesten? Das behauptet ein ZEIT-Leitartikel. Aber was heißt denn hier interessant? Reden wir über den Lustgrusel und die Relevanzsysteme des Journalismus im Umgang mit der AfD.

In der ZEIT habe ich dem Problem der Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie des Lustgrusels gegenüber der extremen Rechten noch meine Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet - ich bin mir der Paradoxie bewusst, aber mir schien der Nutzen zu überwiegen.
www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Our new IMR paper on the great replacement theory is now open-access. We find that about 20% (!) of German adults believe that white majorities are being deliberately replaced by non-white immigrants in a secretive attempt by malevolent elites to undermine their own country.

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

(1/3) Neues Policy Paper! @johannesgrunert.bsky.social beleuchtet historische Wurzeln sowie Organisationsformen und Strategien der extremen Rechten in Chemnitz vor dem Hintergrund des Kulturhauptstadtjahres 2025. 👉 efbi.de/details/efbi...

„Eine Bilanz des Schreckens“: Opferberatungsstellen registrieren Höchststand bei rechter Gewalt Gewalt von Rechten hat 2024 deutlich zugenommen. Die Opferberatungsstellen registrierten vor allem eine steigende Zahl von Angriffen auf politische Gegner und Attacken mit queerfeindlichem Motiv.

„Eine Bilanz des Schreckens“: Opferberatungsstellen @rechtegewalt.bsky.social
registrieren Höchststand bei rechter Gewalt: Die Opferberatungsstellen registrierten vor allem eine steigende Zahl von Angriffen auf politische Gegner und Attacken mit queerfeindlichem Motiv.