What we are reading: Nostalgia in the Netherlands and radical right voting
How important is nostalgia for the far right in the Netherlands? We read Versteegen (2024) to find out. Here is what we learned
Quoted in the observer
Deborah Cole (together with Jon Henley) has a good (i.e., mildly depressing) piece in this Sunday’s Observer on why the respective stalemates in Berlin and Paris are a slow-moving disaster for Europe. While she was working on it, we had a lengthy chat about the German end of the situation, and I’m very happy that…
What we are reading: EU issue voting in European Union member states
Is “Europe” still an issue that can (positively) motivate voters? 3 authors say ‘yes’, but we are not fully convinced.
Radical right voting as class-voting, 2024 edition
Studying the far-right vote in Europe, again This winter, I’m teaching a new iteration of my MA reading class on far-right voting in Europe. I have been doing this for a long time, and every now and then I feel the urge to summarise decades of research by stating the obvious: some people are simply…
Three Bluesky links I liked
Everyone & their gran are leaving Twitter for Bluesky. Here are some links to help you get started.
For AfD voters, Trump is an angel of peace
Here is a little gem from today’s Politbarometer survey. Most Germans (71%) don’t believe that Trump is able to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal (whatever that means), and only 24% think that he could do it. But for nearly two thirds of the far right AfD’s voters, the answer to that question is a hearty…
Three months before the election, just how strong is the far-right Alternative for Germany?
Germany will hold an early election in February 2025. It looks like the AfD could increase their 2021 result by half.
How to access the Bluesky API from R, fast
Programmatically accessing Bluesky is a breeze with the atrrr package for #Rstats
Orbán travels in style, Putin meddles in Germany, Wagenknecht blackmails the CDU, and 1 Spanish scientist cheats his way to the top: 4 (or 5?) links I liked
If you are not worried, you have not been paying attention. “National populism” – itself a polite misnomer for a radical right ideology that also claims to attack the elites – is going international. Viktor Orbán, bankrolled by the EU and the Hungarian treasury, is trying to establish himself as the impresario of this transnational…