Institute for Political Science
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Colonel-Kleinmann-Weg 2
55128 Mainz
Tel: +49 6131 39-20377
Fax: +49 6131 39-27109
E-Mail: arzheimer@politik.uni-mainz.de
Website
SoCuM Project: Political Reactions to the Euro Crisis (Within the framework of AG 2)
Research Interests
Voting Behavior, Political Attitudes, Political Dissatisfaction / Alienation, Right Wing Extremism, Research Methods of Political Science, German Domestic Politics, Western European Politics and the European Union
Academic Background
Kai Arzheimer has been Professor of Political Science at Mainz University since 2009 (in the department of Methods of Empirical Political Research until 2013, and in Domestic Politics and Political Sociology since then). Before that, he was a lecturer in German and European Politics in the Department of Government, University of Essex, Great Britain.
Publications (Top 5)
- 2013
- (with Jocelyn Evans:) A New Multinomial Accuracy Measure for Polling Bias. In: Political Analysis 21/4. (cf. link)
- 2012
- (with Jocelyn Evans): Geolocation and voting: candidate-voter distance effects on party choice in the 2010 General Election in England. In: Political Geography 31/5. P. 301-310. (cf. link)
- 2009
- Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980–2002. In: American Journal of Political Science 53/2. P. 259-275. (cf. link)
- 2008
- Die Wähler der extremen Rechten 1980-2002. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. (cf. link)
- 2006
- (with Elisabeth Carter): Political Opportunity Structures and Right-Wing Extremist Party Success. In: European Journal of Political Research 45. P. 419-443. (cf. link)