Rainer Müller

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Researcher & Consultant at http://sprintconsult.de | PhD | ex TU Darmstadt | political scientist | data & statistics | dear friend and critic of EU 🇪🇺
Rainer MüllerMay 11, 2024
Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀Apr 30, 2024

Germany's energy transition in a chart:

https://theconversation.com/why-germany-ditched-nuclear-before-coal-and-why-it-wont-go-back-228212

Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back

Understanding Berlin’s nuclear exit, one year on.

The Conversation
Rainer MüllerApr 21, 2024
Kai ArzheimerApr 20, 2024

Lovely weekend read 👓☕📰

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/why-we-need-fools-jesters-power-and?utm_source=pocket_mylist

Why We Need Fools: Jesters, Power, and Cults of Personality

The history of court jesters and fools reveals lessons about the nature of modern power, from narcissistic hubris to cults of personality—and the necessity of being told when you're wrong.

The Garden of Forking Paths
Rainer MüllerApr 10, 2024
Kai ArzheimerApr 9, 2024

🇬🇧 'It is Westminster’s political culture, and the glue of the first past the post system, that keeps the illusion that British politics is a two-party game intact.' 🇬🇧

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-two-party-system-is-more-fragile-than-it-seems/?utm_source=pocket_mylist

The two-party system is more fragile than it seems

The polls seem to suggest that the two-party system is alive and well. But dig a bit deeper and you’ll find that voters no longer identify as strongly with either of the two major parties. Al…

British Politics and Policy at LSE
Rainer MüllerApr 5, 2024
Show threadVerrückte GeschichteApr 5, 2024
https://www.geo.de/wissen/weltgeschichte/zehn-beruehmte-kinder--die-geschichte-schrieben-34578700.html
Berühmte Kinder: 10 junge Menschen, die den Lauf der Geschichte veränderten

Ein einzelner Mensch kann viel bewegen. Oft sind es gar Kinder, die den Lauf der Geschichte veränderten – als Herrscher, frühreife Genies oder Revolutionäre

geo.de
Rainer MüllerMar 26, 2024
Kai ArzheimerMar 26, 2024
#Economists vs Social Scientists
Rainer MüllerMar 1, 2024
Kai ArzheimerFeb 29, 2024
Shed a tear for #Voyager1 (V'ger?), but also smile a little smile of appreciation for the (now geriatric) 1970s engineers who built to last back in the day and simply have no concept of letting go
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/
Death, Lonely Death

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.Let’s start with the “billions of miles”. Voyager 1 was launched in early Septe…

Crooked Timber
Rainer MüllerJan 26, 2024
Fixed that 4 u
Rainer MüllerJan 12, 2024
Kai ArzheimerJan 12, 2024
Interesting partisan split. Many more interesting/scary numbers in the article.
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/01/democracy-attitudes-dissatisfaction-and.html
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/01/democracy-attitudes-dissatisfaction-and.html
Democracy Attitudes: Dissatisfaction and Hypocrisy

Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup : A new low of 28% of U.S. adults are satisfied with the way democracy is working in the country. The current f...

Rainer MüllerDec 29, 2023
Kai ArzheimerDec 29, 2023
We ran a poll to settle this perennial question. The result:
Rainer MüllerOct 27, 2023
Anne ApplebaumOct 27, 2023
From Jan-Werner Meuller, a reminder that "it is elites, not the “masses,” who destroy democracies"
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/populism-far-right-relies-on-mainstream-conservative-elites-by-jan-werner-mueller-2023-10
Mainstreaming the Far Right | by Jan-Werner Mueller - Project Syndicate

Jan-Werner Mueller debunks the conventional wisdom about a bottom-up “populist wave” sweeping Western democracies.

Project Syndicate