Update: Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
Once more, the erratic, eclectic, etc. Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe has been updated. Thanks for your input – keep those references coming!
Free for all: Voters and Voting in Multilevel Systems – An Introduction
Taylor & Francis are marking our introduction to the German Politics Special Issue “Voters and Voting in Multilevel Systems” available for free. Hurry while it lasts: apparently, this link is limited to 50 clicks.
New Publication: The AfD: Finally a Successful Right-Wing Populist Eurosceptic Party for Germany?
I am pleased to be able to inform you that the editors are happy with the revisions you made to your article and we can now proceed to publication. I could not agree more. The revised article will appear in 2015, possibly rather late. Meanwhile, the author’s version of my piece on Germany’s Alternative party…
Interview with Deutschlandfunk on the Edathy Inquiry
The Edathy Affair involves allegations of child porn consumption, treason, and emotional blackmailing. Just before Christmas, a parliamentary hearing left everyone more baffled than ever before. Here is my take on the likely medium-term outcomes. Photo by blu-news.org
Five More Links I Liked
Sage advice from Andrew Gelman: How to read (in quantitative social science). And by implication, how to write. http://t.co/1nVQ62cVMj New Statesman | “It’s sad they’ve sunk to such depths”: Tories use Ukip candidate’s Turkish name on a leaflet http://t.co/DiznLrWmXX Sigh Your holiday shopping guide for political scientists – The Washington Post http://t.co/1GEEJpDiT3 PHD comic: not…
Five Links I Liked
Still looking for a Christmas present? Now available in Paperback: Class Politics and the Radical Right – Routledge http://t.co/ilhCXBlczm #InstantClassic Crooked Timber: Fly Air Gini http://t.co/s85aIzxA4u Art Goldhammer on Sarko’s inevitable comeback: He’s baaaaaack! http://t.co/5Q9Eu0Rt5L This has already happened as hinted at here: Trouble in (the Guardian’s) Paradise: anti-immigration party could bring Swedish government down…
More on Thuringia: A CDU-AfD-Pact?
Various news outlets reported this afternoon that there had been talks, perhaps even agreement between the (state) CDU and the (state) AfD to prevent Ramelow from being elected Minister-President. Obviously, nothing came out of this (neither party put a candidate on the slate), but still: Wither the blessing of the leadership, Merkel has created a…
Germany gets their first Minister-President of the Left
On Friday, the state parliament at Erfurt voted in Bodo Ramelow as Minister-President of Thuringia. He is the first member of the Left party to hold such an office, backed by the first ‘red-red-green’ (Left/SPD/Greens) coalition ever. 25 years after the fall of the wall, that is still a highly controversial constellation. Ramelow has been…
Six Links I Liked
A modern guide to getting started with Data Science and Python http://t.co/pncihL61hj PHD Comics: Research I Problems http://t.co/pJEwhaQqE Not sure about this one, but it is interesting enough: French Politics: The Emerging Split in the Extreme Right http://t.co/PmsbosbpGE So much to read, so little time: A very useful trove of free articles: Psychology of #Terrorism…
Links I Liked
Going to Oxford now a stigma in Tory Land? The Tories play the local card hard in Rochester https://t.co/bhrm6iftC4 Some striking images here: “Berkeley. A history of disobedience in pictures” http://t.co/c3kv9vbPEo This is nuts & destroyed my productivity for today: Yougov’s terrible segmentation tool: http://ift.tt/1ulmuuf German village plays prank on neo-Nazis h/t @BDStanley http://t.co/pvJ7wYstYz