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Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

Are Christians in Western Europe more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens?

New research finds no link between personal Christian beliefs and Islamophobia, but a close association with nativism/authoritarianism.

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Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us.

Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️

Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

Automating awareness, digitizing dissemination: the radical right research robot as a template for (political) science communication in a fragmented social media landscape Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of the science infrastructure. The emergence of ‘Science Twitter’, the collective of scholars active on the platform now known as ‘...

I'm getting my 15 pages of fame. Awkward.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2025.2549079

Mehr Mainzer Forschung in den Medien 👇

My merry maker wrote a research note about me. Very awkward.

More research (& research infrastructure) made in Mainz. 🤖Bots for serendipity!

Ich habe heute meine Ernennung zum Professor für Regierungslehre und Policyforschung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg entgegengenommen. Ab dem Wintersemester lehre und forsche ich hier zu Demokratie, Parteien, Populismus. Ich freue mich auf die gemeinsame Arbeit mit Studierenden und KollegInnen!

Das Institut @powimz.bsky.social bei der #ecprgc25. Tolle Vorträge, inspirierender Austausch und interessante Eindrücke.

Für Menschen, die sich für den nachhaltigen Umgang mit Grundwasser interessieren:

👉 Frings, Cornelia, 2025: Nachhaltigkeit im Umgang mit Grundwasser in Deutschland als komplexes Governance-Problem. In: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht (ZfU), Vol. 3, S. 315-350.

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Durch kurzfristige Absagen sind noch Plätze in unserer Summer School „War in Ukraine – Pathways to Peace“ vom 25.08.-29.08.2025 frei geworden. Spontane Anmeldung möglich!
Details: www.sowiso.uni-mainz.de/summer-schoo...

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election?

I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social.

Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Studierende aus 20 Ländern besuchen die International Summer School 2025 auf dem Gutenberg-Campus. (Foto/©: Peter Pulkowski / JGU)

#JGUinternational: Internationale #SummerSchool an der #UniMainz begrüßt 60 Studierende aus 20 Ländern, u.a. von der europ. #FORTHEMAlliance / Deutschkurse, Seminare zu deutscher Geschichte, Literatur & Politik sowie kulturelles Erleben in Mainz und der Region

Infos unter 👉 summer.uni-mainz.de

Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to religiosity but highly correlated with far right attitudes - Kai Arzheimer, 2025 The far right’s relationship with religion has become a major focus of current research. Even in Western Europe, one of the most rapidly secularising areas of t...

@kai-arzheimer.com discusses how far-right actors in Western Europe use "Christianism" to frame Muslims as a threat. Survey data shows religiosity is unrelated to far-right ideology; Islamophobia overlaps with nativism & authoritarianism at micro level.

More: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks so much for hosting us @powimz.bsky.social
It has been an amazing opportunity to present our work and exchange ideas on democracy, representation and the design of legitimate institutions.

A structural equation model of far-right attitudes, religiosity, and Islamophobia

🚨 🚨 🚨 New OA publication in Research&Politics @respol.bsky.social.bsky.social‬ out today: #Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to ✝️ #religiosity but highly correlated with #farright attitudes. A short 🧵

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"Die Versprechen der #Demokratie" - jetzt in der Forschungswerkstatt mit @clandwehr.bsky.social