I get a lot of academic spam from predatory journals & fake conferences. Most of it never makes it past the filters, but this machine-written chunk of nonsense will always have a special place in my ❤️. Probability! should definitively become the standard way of greeting academic elders.
The year is 2022. For the third time, a Le Pen is proceeding to the run-off for the French presidency. And unlike 2002 (when her father stood) and 2017, Marine Le Pen has a chance to win this time. Without doubt, a Le Pen presidency would upend French, European, and even global politics. This is…
I have updated the bibliography with 80 fresh titles. If you can spare two minutes, watch the video to see what is new.
The Radical Right bibliography has been updated. As of April 2021, it lists more than a thousand titles on radical right parties and their supporters. Click here to see what’s new.
For better (seriously?) or worse (you betcha!), politics and religion are intimately intertwined. While everyone and their grandfather (and especially their grandfather) gets worked up about immigration from Muslim-majority countries, the more relevant development in much of Europe is secularisation. https://youtu.be/z_s-ab2YCMY Secularisation as a process has many facets (e.g. a decline of religious membership, practice,…
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
Glad you asked. Because for once, I have a tentative answer: I have written a short (2,000 words) chapter on comparative political sociology for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. This is a first draft that may or may not change considerably over the coming months, but I’m putting it here for anyone who might…
Why is the #AfD so strong in Germany’s eastern states, and what role do they play for the party?