The summer 2013 edition of the Extreme Right Bibliography is out, bringing the total count to 437 titles. Suggestions for additions welcome – please get in touch.
VS/Springer has just published the a massive volume on the 2009 Bundestag election. Our chapter looks (once more) into the differences between voters in the former Federal Republic and their eastern compatriots in the 2009 election. While these differences persist, we find that people in the West are also deviating from traditional patterns of voting behaviour. (In German)
This is my last post on the 2013 Joint Sessions. Promise.
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.
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).
… which is what she is doing right now. All boxes are packed, all participants have departed. The Joint Sessions 2013 are now officially over. One colleague asked me yesterday night what the incentive was for organising it. The answer is simple: It was a great, if sometimes exhausting experience.
The ECPR Joint Sessions 2013 in the Social Media (so far)
If 600+ scientists follow current government advice, they should drink about 3000 litres of water over a five day period. Accordingly, roughly that amount was delivered yesterday by our partner Viva con Agua, leaving me slightly worried about the structural integrity of the floor, which is more attuned to support mildly obese academics. It’s really not easy being green.
Other deliveries include 300 metres of power cord and several and hundreds of kilos of books. While I always knew that running this show involves a lot of stuff, actually seeing all of it squeezed into one room is disconcerting and strangely exhilarating at the same time.
Thankfully, we could take delivery of 700 programme brochures today.
After a final briefing session for the many student helpers we have hired, we are as ready as we will ever be. In a little role playing exercise, I tried to simulate the behaviour of the average academic sociopath. While I quite enjoyed that part, I’m hoping that they will still turn up for work on Monday, and that you will treat them a little kinder than I did today (should not be too difficult).
In other news, we found a gallery of rather good panoramic pictures of Mainz on the local newspaper’s site. My favourite is the one of the weather vane on the cathedral. The fact that no one could be bothered to put the camera above the scaffolding adds a touch of charming amateurism.