Sunday afternoon in Germany is the perfect time for contemplation, because there is absolutely nothing else to do. If you want to worry about catastrophic events slightly further in the future than climate change, listen to this wonderful episode of Big Picture Science about the end of everything 😱
Why slow scholarship is not necessarily the solution for academia’s problems
Filip Vostal thinks that slow scholarship is basically Goop for the academy. I think he is onto something
(Impact of Social Sciences)For several years the slow scholarship movement has gathered an international following in advocating for a more conscientious slower form of academic work. Arguing against this blanket rejection o…
Our research on the AfD’s changing electorate is the most cited (fresh) article in Electoral Studies
Our recent article has been cited a lot (by local standards), and the ungated pre-print is still available.
Inglehart, Maaßen, Le Pen: two links I liked & one that makes me sad
I’m sad to hear that Ronald Inglehart has died. Hero worshipping is worse than useless, and great man/woman theories are just very bad sociology of knowledge. Having said that, Inglehart had an impact on the field of comparative political sociology that is hard to overestimate. He was enormously productive, and his work is cited far…
What we are reading: Radical Right voters’ motives in Eastern and Western Europe
Is anti-immigration sentiment behind the radical right vote in all of Europe? It’s been a mere three decades since 1990, or as we old-timers are prone to say, a generation. But for some (cough) Europeanists, the CEE countries are still either terra incognita or just an extension of their western counterparts. While much of the…
The Far Right Bibliography: the second pandemic (aka spring 2021) update
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.
What we are reading: Corruption performance voting
What we are reading: Corruption performance voting Do voters punish government parties for high levels of corruption? Performance voting is a generalisation of economic voting: the idea that voters governments punish/reward for good/bad, well, performance. Low levels of systemic corruption are both an aspect and a precondition for a polity’s performance, so studying how voters’…
What we are reading: Class Voting in a Tripolar Space
The reading class exercise goes on. Inevitably, the class on the consequences of the Radical Right’s rise kicks off with some recent work on the underlying causes. What is the link between social class and radical right voting in Western Europe? The idea that the radical right forms a new party family, whose rise is…
What we are reading: Comparative survey data, random effects and some best practice tips
Working with repeated comparative survey data – almost a howto There is now a bonanza of studies that rely on surveys which are replicated across countries and time, often with fairly short intervals, with the ESS arguably one of the most prominent examples (but also see the “barometer” studies in various regions). Multi-level analysis is…
More MA reading classes
Traditionally, Germany’s long, gloomy, depressing and generally horrible winter semester ends mid-February. It is followed by a break that slips past us in the blink of an eye and then a long, sweaty, generally drawn-out but gloriously sunny summer term that ends mid-July. And this is where we are now (the beginning, not the end).…