Interview mit der Deutschen Welle: Wie funktioniert die staatliche Parteienfinanzierung, und warum bekommt die NPD kein Geld mehr?
The 41st ECPR Joint Sessions aim to be sustainable with a local bus pass, locally sourced food, child care, and a partnership with a drinking water charity. Read here what we have been up to.
Gerhard Frey, notorious right-wing publisher, politician and founder of Deutsche Volksunion (DVU) founder has died one day after his 80th birthday. He leaves behind an impressive legacy of making money from hatred.
There are still places available on the New Synagogue Tour (Joint Sessions 2013 Social Programme)
Germany’s right-wing extremist NPD has published a confidential brief regarding a potential ban of the party that was compiled by government agencies
Rejoice, oh you PolSci nerds out there: Three of my favourite European blogs – Ballots & Bullets at Nottingham and the British Politics and European Politics blogs at the LSE – are launching a collaboration on euroscepticism, with a whole host of interesting stuff in the pipeline. What’s not to like?
I’ve just completed a review of Gideon Botsch’s history of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany after 1945 for Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie. The book is good, but obviously, I have few quibbles, mostly with the (lack of) theoretical underpinnings. I also think that it is a bit too short (I seem never to get enough of…
A workshop director asks if she can book an excursion for her whole group via the online form. The short answer is no, but there are other options.
Pat Thomson – drawing on work by Noel Gough – likens epistemological positions to crime-novel heroes. Turns out I’m a positivist (or post-positivist? why post-?) Sherlock, though I would rather be a Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe (guess their epistemological vantage point). They are way cooler, and I’d prefer the Bourbon over the morphine. What kind of detective are you?
Annette Schavan has done the honest thing and resigned as Federal Minister for Education. Compare and contrast with the zu Guttenberg Saga