Marvin Stein
Political scientist (Uni Bremen): political sociology, political psychology and empirical attitudinal research in the field of populism, conspiracy ideology and right-wing extremism
- Reposted by Marvin SteinHeute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).
- Reposted by Marvin SteinWhy did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marvin Stein📣 Ich freue mich sehr, morgen im Rahmen der IRex-Studium-Generale-Ringvorlesung an der @unituebingen.bsky.social zum Thema Umgang mit der extremen Rechten sprechen zu dürfen. 📹 Die bisherigen Vorträge der Ringvorlesung sind bereits online in der Mediathek verfügbar: 👉 tinyurl.com/5fnh2ce4
- Reposted by Marvin SteinThis is a fantastic dataset for studying the evolution of political attitudes and party preferences in Germany. Here's a mosaic plot of vote choices in 2025 by vote choices in 2021 (as reported back then). One striking observation is the high volatility behind the overall gains of the Left Party.
- 🎉 The GLES panel data releases for the 2025 German federal election are now complete—an amazing data treasure for analyzing political attitude shifts and decision‑making during the campaign and beyond. #GLES2025 #BTW2025 #ElectionResearch
- The datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...
- For those of you interested, make sure to also take a look at the ipb-blogpost, giving an in-depth insight into the project. protestinstitut.eu/20-jahre-pro... Project leads: @sehaunss.bsky.social @simonteune.bsky.social @piotrkocyba.bsky.social @pascalsiegers.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marvin SteinFar-right voters are marked by persistent self-victimisation narratives.
- Further evidence that Reform voters are the most distinct political group in the country benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out
- Reposted by Marvin SteinWhat better New Year’s resolution than becoming an ipb #member in 2026 ✨ 👉 By joining ipb, you can support our work as an #independent, extra-university research institute! Check out our website for more details: buff.ly/c5r2hxv
- Reposted by Marvin SteinAmazing read! The finding that 'small minority of users accounts for the vast majority of hate speech' fits neatly with what I have been finding so far regarding far-right activists online and the diffusion of conspiracy theories.
- ✖️Who produces most online hate speech and how effective is counterspeech? ➡️ @gloriagennaro.bsky.social et al. find that hate speech is concentrated among a few users and that counterspeech on X mostly fails to curb prolific offenders www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- Reposted by Marvin SteinThe year is coming to an end. Time to look back at what happened at ipb this year: 1/6 ipb Working Papers 📄 Our Working Papers make early-stage research on social movements visible, from the Palestinian solidarity movement to Christopher Street Day demonstrations More in the comments 👇
- Reposted by Marvin Stein🎉 The GLES panel data releases for the 2025 German federal election are now complete—an amazing data treasure for analyzing political attitude shifts and decision‑making during the campaign and beyond. #GLES2025 #BTW2025 #ElectionResearch
- 🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2025, Wave 32 (ZA10121) 💻📱 CAWI 👥 13,500 panelists 📅 2025-05-07 - 2025-05-20 🗳️ Covers political attitudes, party & candidate evaluations, coalition formation, foreign policy, populism and conspiracy thinking. 📥 dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinNew Paper in @computationalcommunication.org The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022 with the most wonderful co-autohors @buehling.bsky.social & @maxzehring.bsky.social >> 2020-2022 >> 715 channels & 229 public groups >> 5,641,026 messages >> Manually curated >> Open for researchers
- This one is big. Great overview of the various currents within the populist family. Plus, it provides a rough template that one could use with regards to other ideological families. My immediate thought is that a taxonomy of the rapidly growing radical right would be especially compelling.
- 🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset. 🔗 populistree.org 📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics: 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Marvin Stein2 weitere Schlussfolgerungen der Studie: "An vielen Stellen zeigt sich deutlich, dass die AfD-Wählerschaft keine Protestwählerschaft (mehr) ist. Sie ist überzeugt von Themen, Lösungskompetenzen, Personal und die Wahlentscheidung fällt somit leicht." 89% von ihnen fiel die Wahlentscheidung leicht. 1
- Reposted by Marvin SteinThis hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss. Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people. #30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2
- Reposted by Marvin SteinAfter a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN! Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered jbgruber.github.io/traktok/
- New CRAN package traktok with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=traktok
- Reposted by Marvin SteinVor 35 Jahren ermordete ein rassistischer Mob Amadeu Antonio. Wir erinnern an ihn & zeigen klar: Hass & Hetze, Rassismus & andere Formen von Menschenfeindlichkeit haben hier keinen Platz. Wir stehen für ein demokratisches Miteinander. Im Namen von Amadeu Antonio setzen wir uns tagtäglich dafür ein.
- Reposted by Marvin Stein“Eine Untersuchung der politischen Wirklichkeit in 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt […] Im Gegenteil: Im Durchschnitt gewinnen rechtsradikale Parteien bis zur nächsten Wahl rund sechs Prozentpunkte hinzu.” www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/demo...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinGastautor Professor Georg Voruba, österreichischer Soziologe und emeritierter Professor an der Universität Leipzig, schreibt im neuen EFBI-Policy Paper darüber, wie Verschwörungsweltbilder funktionieren und welcher Funktion Utopien in diesen Erzählungen dienen. efbi.de/details/efbi...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinIn der aktuellen Ausgabe der @apuz.bsky.social zum Thema "Reichsbürger" habe ich zum Zusammenhang mit dem Rechtsextremismus geschrieben. www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/reichsbuerger-2025/572710/verschwoerungsideologischer-souveraenismus-und-rechtsextremismus/
- Reposted by Marvin SteinResearch based on a poll of 11,000 Reform UK supporters, the biggest survey of its kind, tells us more about who is intending to vote for the party than has been previously known.
- My dataset covering #Querdenken has been awarded dataset of the month @gesis.org – which kind of feels like a bucket list moment I didn‘t even know was on the map 😇
- Unser #DatensatzdesMonats: Einblicke in die Querdenken-Szene 2021: Einstellungen, Motive und politische Orientierung von Marvin Stein (Socium Universität Bremen). #Facts: standardisierte, quantitative Online-Befragung auf Telegram im August 2021 mit 5.543 Interviews: doi.org/10.4232/1.14540
- Reposted by Marvin SteinWir befragen wieder die größte Demo dieser Art. Danke an das gesamte Team!
- Heute findet der Unabhängigkeitsmarsch in Warschau statt, der stark von rechten + nationalistischen Gruppen geprägt ist. Ein Team der Uni Leipzig um unseren EFBI-Kollegen @piotrkocyba.bsky.social ist dabei, um die Demonstrierenden zu befragen. Mehr dazu in der FAZ 👉 www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinAuffälligkeit in den Daten der neuen #Mitte-Studie: Unter den jungen Befragten sind Fremdenfeindlichkeit und ein rechtsextremes Weltbild deutlich stärker verbreitet als bei den älteren Menschen. (Komplette Studie der @fesonline.bsky.social: www.fes.de/index.php?eI...)
- Im folgenden Thread einige Einblicke in meine Querdenken-Daten im Vergleich zur dt. Bevölkerung. Wenig überraschend hielt kaum jemand aus der Szene die Corona-Maßnahmen für „genau richtig“. Interessant: Innerhalb der Szene herrschte teils Uneinigkeit darüber, ob sie zu streng oder locker waren
- Auffällig bei der Selbstverortung: Großteil der Querdenken-Szene sieht sich in der Mitte – deutlich häufiger als der Bevölkerungsschnitt. Sonst zeigt sich Heterogenität, mit etwas mehr linker als rechter Selbstverortung. Genauer Blick auf sozio-ökon. und –kult. Dim. deutet jedoch Widerspruch an...
- Klare Unterrepräsentanz von Positionen links der Mitte, bei gleichzeitiger Überrepräsentanz rechter Einstellungen. Daneben noch eine nennenswerte Gruppe mit gemäßigten Ansichten. Heterogenität vor allem von der Mitte bis Rechtsaußen, was jedoch stark mit dem L-R- & Querfront-Selbstverständnis clasht
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View full threadLiteratur: Müller, Julian F. 2021. „Populismus als Ideologie. Ein Axiomatisierungsversuch“ In: Seongcheol Kim/Veith Selk (Hg.). Wie weiter mit der Populismusforschung?: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG: 93-110.
- My dataset covering the Querdenken movement is now available @dprex.bsky.social for scientific use, providing comprehensive insights into one of Germany‘s largest protest movements in recent years.
- 📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs. 👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
- Stoked to see a beloved side project finally come to completion. Today, I submitted my #Querdenken dataset (N= 4748). Available soon via @dprex.bsky.social for scientific reuse. Big thanks to @marlenehilgenstock.bsky.social for the great support. Looking foward seeing the findings it might generate.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinNew paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
- Reposted by Marvin SteinRejection is one of the toughest parts about academia and this post provides some great guidance on how to deal with it (that I will start trying to follow myself). Here's a couple of thoughts that the post triggered, if those happen to be of interest:
- Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it. CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures. But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do. 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette... 🧵
- Reposted by Marvin SteinMein Aufsatz "Verschwörungsnarrative im türkischen Nationalismus: Akteur:innen der türkisch-islamischen Ideologie in Deutschland und ihre Rolle für den antiarmenischen Rassismus und Antisemitismus" ist ab heute frei verfügbar - im Open Access-Sammelband "Projektiver Antizionismus":
- Reposted by Marvin SteinIs it okay to engage with extremists? Join our webinar with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London, on Oct. 16, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online. Moderated, as always, by the one and only @audreygagnon.bsky.social! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinFinally 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.
- Reposted by Marvin Stein
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! - Reposted by Marvin SteinMost 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.
- Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Marvin Stein1/4. 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
- Reposted by Marvin SteinIn 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. 1/3
- NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
- Reposted by Marvin SteinDo 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. 🔗
- Reposted by Marvin SteinI gave a lecture on “The Far Right in the Trump Era” at @renner-institut.at in Vienna this Summer. You can watch it here. 👇
- Reposted by Marvin SteinSurveying 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.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinCurrently 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.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinDruckt 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...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinApropos 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)
- Reposted by Marvin SteinGreat 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.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinResearch 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..."
- Reposted by Marvin SteinIn 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...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinI'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.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinDie 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).
- Reposted by Marvin SteinThe 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.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinThe 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...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinThrilled 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.
- Reposted by Marvin SteinDespite 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
- Reposted by Marvin SteinRight-wing surge sparks debate about partisanship's effect. My #OpenAccess study shows AfD support lowers trust in the FCC. #Democracy #AfD #PoliticalScience 🌐
- Reposted by Marvin SteinFrankreichs 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
- Reposted by Marvin Stein(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...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinHave 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...
- Reposted by Marvin SteinBeschämend, 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.
