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17.02.2025
51 Minuten
In the eighth episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.”
we talk to Björn Bremer about how the public thinks about
austerity politics in the context of Germany's upcoming election.
How does public opinion look on spending cuts and what drives
these preferences? In what policy areas are spending cuts met
with greater resistance and how does the public prioritize debt
lending, raising taxes and expenditure reduction? We also talk
about how austerity cuts and borrowing affect electoral politics
and party branding.
You can find Björns website here:
https://www.bjoern-bremer.com/ and follow him on Bluesky
here:
https://bsky.app/profile/bjoernbremer.bsky.social.
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03.12.2024
47 Minuten
In the seventh episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.”
we talk to Vicente Valentim about the role of norms in the
normalization of the far-right. How do social norms influence the
expression of radical-right political preferences? How do skilled
far-right candidates strategically erode social norms through
entrepreneurship? How does a norm-based theory of far-right
support interact with economic and cultural explanations?
Moreover, we talked about what Vicentes research implies for
strategies on countering far-right parties.
You can find Vicentes website here:
https://www.vicentevalentim.com/ and follow him on Twitter
here: https://x.com/ValentimVicente
and here on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/valentimvicente.bsky.social. The
book discussed in the episode can be found here:
https://academic.oup.com/book/57946?login=false
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17.11.2024
53 Minuten
In the sixth episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.” we
talk to Professor Silja Häusermann about the crisis of social
democratic parties. How have long-term changes in the labor
market affected the electoral coalition of these parties? Have
social democratic parties lost the working class to the radical
right and which programmatic strategies provide these parties
with a way out of their current crisis? We also discussed to what
degree the electoral crisis of social democratic parties is
self-inflicted by the welfare state reforms implemented by
center-left governments in the early 2000s.
You can find Silja’s website here: http://siljahaeusermann.org/
and follow her on Twitter here:
https://x.com/SiljaHausermann. The book discussed in the
episode can be found here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-social-democracy/B4C5F9FFAF5FF8142DB2E209E6C5C9D0.
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05.06.2024
46 Minuten
In the fifth episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.” we
talk to Professor Noam Gidron about democratic backsliding in
Israel. What ideological motivations lie behind the controversial
plans to weaken the Israeli justice system? What attitudes
explain public support for these plans and democratic backsliding
in general? How can Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and its
plans to restructure the justice system be compared with
situations in Poland and Hungary?
We also discussed the role of affective polarization in Israeli
society and how the ongoing war might influence the attempted
erosion of Israel's democratic institutions in the long
term.
Noam Gidron is an associate professor in the Department of
Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His
previous research is especially known for its findings on
affective polarization and the link between social status and
support for populist parties.
You can find his website here:
https://en.politics.huji.ac.il/people/noam-gidron and
follow him on Twitter here: https://x.com/NoamGidron. Noams
work discussed in the episode can be found here:
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/zxukm and here:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/900431 . If you'd like to give us
feedback, consider rating the podcast wherever you listen to it
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05.05.2024
50 Minuten
In the fourth episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.”
we talk to Professor Sabrina Mayer about the voting behavior of
immigrant origin voters in Germany. How can we understand the
voting behavior of this heterogeneous voter group and what do we
know about their party preferences? Why is there a stronger
affinity for the AfD among Russian Germans and to what extent has
the party affiliation of Turkish-German voters changed in recent
years? Moreover, we discussed whether parties are increasingly
trying to appeal to migrant voters, what kind of information
environment these voters find themselves in and what the
methodological difficulties are in studying their political
preferences.
Sabrina is a full professor of Political Sociology at the
University of Bamberg as well as associated member at the DeZIM
Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on group
identities, political attitudes and comparative voting behavior
and is best known for findings on the voting behavior of migrant
voters.
You can find her website here: https://sabrinajmayer.de/ and
follow her on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/sabrinajmayer?lang=de. Sabrina´s work
discussed in the episode can be found
here:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r8VOcJYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Über diesen Podcast
Welcome to "No problem et al.!" In this podcast, we interview
political scientists about their research in the context of bigger
developments in politics and society: why were radical right
parties in the last 20 years so successful? What are structural
divides in contemporary Europe? How do current political events
relate to long-term trends? This podcast is hosted by Viktor Burgi
and Julius Kölzer. You can find Julius and Viktor on Bluesky
(https://bsky.app/profile/juliusk.bsky.social and
https://bsky.app/profile/vikburgi.bsky.social) or Twitter
(https://twitter.com/Julius_Ktxt and https://twitter.com/V_Burgi).
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