Samuel Stouffer, survey data, and spirits from the deep
Empiricism: a slippery slope perhaps, but also one hell of a ride
Empiricism: a slippery slope perhaps, but also one hell of a ride
Andrej Matisak is a Slovak journalist and blogger. While we have never met in real life, we have known each other on the internet for nearly a decade of so. Andrej also hosts a podcast (I’m probably the last person who doesn’t) and invited me for a chat about the AfD. And so we talked…
The good folks over at ECPS invited me to give the opening lecture for their 2023 Summer School on Populism, War, and Crises. Here are the slides.
Support for the radical right #AfD is up 3-4 points since May 2023. Most of that shift happened in May, but that does not mean that the surge is over.
Auch mit dem Inforadio des RBB habe ich über die AfD gesprochen. Das komplette Interview gibt es zum Nachhören oder zum Nachlesen hier
The other day, I read an article about #ChatGPT simulating understanding by correlating words. Which brought on a painful flashback to that time when I took a course on Luhmann
Mit Dietmar Neuerer habe ich ausführlich über den Leidensweg des Heizungsgesetzes und die Dauerkrise der Koalition gesprochen. Das Interview ist zum größeren Teil hinter einer Paywall, aber ganz zu lesen, wenn man den Link im Incognito-Modus öffnet. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/interview-cdu-und-csu-waeren-schlecht-beraten-einen-heizungswahlkampf-zu-fuehren/v_detail_tab_comments/29244652.html
The AfD’s success in the east makes international headlines. Deutschlandversteher James Jackson has a somewhat short article in the Torygraph, with some input from me.
Wird Rechtsradikalismus zum Problem für die Wirtschaft? Artikel im Handelsblatt, zu dem ich ein paar Zitate beigesteuert habe.
Emily Schultheis wrote a good piece on the AfD’s recent successes, with some input from me.