These are the slides for my Oxford talk on competition between the Centre Left and the Extreme Right (aka Working Class Parties 2.0) for the working class vote in Western Europe.
“Ist dagegen das neue dafür”? Short interview with detektor.fm radio on protest parties in Europe (in German).
Germany’s (very polite) answer to UKIP is “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD), a new party that wants to abolish the Euro. While this is certainly a novelty in German party politics, I don’t think it’s a game changer for the September election. Why? Read my guest post on the AfD over at the LSE’s excellent European…
Interview mit HR Info zu den Aussichten neuer Parteien bei der Landtagswahl in Hessen im September 2013
In which I’m taking my paper on the election between the Centre Left and the Extreme Right for the working class vote to Academic Wonderland (TM).
Today is clearly a day for statistical songs (are there any other days?), so here are some links to get you started. To kick of the stat song roundup, here are some … interesting insights into the culture that is biostatics, complete with some remarkably dreadful audio material. Obviously, youtube has a whole channel devoted…
Interview mit dpa: 100 Tage Regierungschefin Malu Dreyer
The German polity tries to deal with an electorally insignificant extremist NPD five months before the election, looks very stupid in the process
Like many fellow information junkies, I was shocked that Google is killing Reader, then realised that I had not used it very regularly lately. This is partly because I rely a bit more on twitter these days, partly because last year I began using feedly, a Reader frontend that looks good on my various devices…
Two years ago, a research paper discovered a tight-knit cluster of researchers that dominate German Human Geography. Harald Schoen and I comment on the paper that rocked German Geography (in German, somewhat unsurprisingly).