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 a

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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

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In the third episode of "Political Science? No Problem et al.", we talk to Dr. Magdalena Breyer about voters' reactions to different representation trajectories of women in politics. Does an increase in the proportion of female politicians trig

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In the second episode of "Political Science? No Problem et al.!" we talk to Nils Steiner about the new German party "BSW", based on his research on the left-authoritarian supply gap. What is special about this party? What peculiar positions do

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In the first episode of "Political Science? - No Problem et al." we talk to Kai Arzheimer about the ongoing popularity of the far-right party AfD in Germany. Among other things, we discussed what explains support for the AfD, what the party's e

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