Arne Holverscheid

I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025.

In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

May I ask what the paper was? 🙂

Can I ask what specifically you are referring to when you say the richest country in world history? As in the biggest nominal GDP?

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

Just ask the Wallons!

Debatte um Ende der Brandmauer: Union bringt Antrag zur Migration ein – egal, wer ihn unterstützt Die Unionsfraktion bringt nächste Woche einen Antrag zur Migration in den Bundestag ein und will Zustimmung der AfD akzeptieren. Das bestätigte die CDU gegenüber der Berliner Zeitung.

www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gese...

Looks like the CDU is willing to rely on AfD votes to push through new harsh anti-asylum measures next week. They will likely get Lindner’s FDP votes and Wagenknecht’s BSW as well. A terrible mistake they’ll come to regret.

Ja das ist mir wohl bewusst. Aber rauf und runter in den Rängen der CDU werben die Leute für ein Ende der Brandmauer. Zuletzt erst Linnemann. Noch dazu normalisieren sie deren Hass mit ihrer eigenen Rhetorik. Wie lange sollen wir auf deren guten Willen und ihre halbherzigen Versprechen setzen?

I’m sure subtle differences in wording about defense policy (from a party that ran our military into the ground) will matter greatly when they’re eventually in a coalition with the AfD.

Somebody tell Janine Teagues!!

Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...

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Our study on "Framing Cascades in #Far-right Digital Networks" now has an issue! 🧵⤵️
#polcomm #commsky

Knüpfer, C., & Hoffmann, M. (2024). Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks. Political Communication, 42(1), 85–107. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

This is awesome work, can’t wait to read!

Unless you keep making new email addresses

Just the general weirdness of interacting with Germans!

Yes, that’s the one. I think it’s not as straightforward, but it can be reached by train. It’s definitely worth it, but Nuremberg and Munich alone are also great. Plus both cities have loads of history and sights to check out. From Munich you can also go south to the lakes / mountains.

Close to Nuremberg is Rothenburg, which is a small and well-preserved medieval town (probably best example in Germany), with a very pretty Christmas market.

I’d say fly into Munich or Frankfurt. If Munich, stay and check some of the Christmas markets in town. Get a train from either city to Nuremberg, which is the most famous Christmas market in a medieval setting.

This is fun for those among us who picked a fight with a racist relative over the abundance of Döner vs Bratwurst in small town Germany.

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German media have leaked an internal AfD document showing that far-right normalization is a deliberate strategy. Not surprising, but still frustrating because apparently political science research is read by exactly the wrong people while it is largely ignored by mainstream parties.

In months ahead, 🇪🇺 leaders need to decide long term strategy to tackle 🇪🇺 economic, fiscal, industrial and security challenges

Conventional view is that 🇪🇺 is forged in crisis as Monnet’s saying goes

But radical right’s rise in last decade might seriously complicate 🇪🇺’s road to reform

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Do you have a recommendation to read up on how their modelling is flawed?

Free press was banned in October 1933 so people were missing these crucial tips that year

On theme with Musk re: deregulation

He would’ve made a great FBI director

Janeway, like all of us, sits at her desk, staring intently at a small device in her hands.

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Did you just call Nate Silver a statistician?

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It’s the moral decay