Let them eat cake, 2022 style
One morning at the train station, I saw this spoof campaign poster featuring Christian Lindner as he channels Marie Antoinette
What makes for a successful conference? | The Duck of Minerva
These are all good points
Research on the Radical Right in Italy
It is Friday afternoon, and everyone is getting very excited about the Italian elections and the likely success of the far right. So am I. But something irks me. For obvious reasons, Italy is a rather well-studied case of far right mobilisation. Also, obviously, much of the coverage in the media is focused on Meloni,…
Where have all the True Finns gone (from the ESS)?
I’m upset: It looks like voters and supporters of the radical right Finns Party were miscoded in the current version of the European Social Survey (round 10).
Downtime is not an option – meet the stewards of the cloud | Aeon Essays
You, a quantitative researcher, may feel a certain affinity towards computers and, by extension, the cloud. You’re wrong. For a true geek-out, an ethnographic approach is required.
Hungary 2022 – how biased an electoral map? | Fruits and Votes
Matthew Shuggart on Orban’s manipulation of the electoral system: "Unlike in Poland, the role of the electoral system in the installation of this government has been seemingly fairly minimal"
Wolf attacks predict … far-right voting? – Erik Gahner Larsen
You may have heard about this paper that links wolf attacks to #AfD voting in 🇩🇪. Looks a bit odd? Sure does. Here’s a forensic takedown by Erik Gahner Larsen
Wähler extrem rechter Parteien und Methoden zu ihrer Erforschung: zwei neue Arbeitspapiere
Vor sechs Jahren erschien die zweite Auflage des “Handbuch Rechtsextremismus” von Virchow et al., zu dem ich mich damals etwas kritisch geäußert habe. Umso mehr freue ich mich, dass ich bei neu konzipierten dritten Auflage dabei sein darf. Das Handbuch soll im nächsten Jahr erscheinen. In der Vergangenheit haben sich solche Aussagen häufig als überoptimistisch…
Gespräch mit dem WDR über die AfD und das (Nicht-)Thema Inflation
Mit dem WDR habe ich ausführlich darüber gesprochen, warum die AfD nicht von der steigenden Inflation profitiert. Nachhören kann man das hier 👇 https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/wdr-5-politikum-gespraech/zieht-nicht-die-afd-und-die-inflation/wdr-5/10588975/
No Putsch in the #AfD
Earlier this year, Jörg Meuthen resigned from his post as co-leader of the AfD and, like two of his predecessors, also left the party. Meuthen, an academic economist, had become a co-leader in 2015 following Lucke’s ouster and had been billed as a representative of the AfD’s ‘moderate’, economically liberal and fiscally conservative faction. Like…