The Spring 2022 update of the far-right bibliography
The Radical Right bibliography has been updated. As of April 2021, it lists more than a thousand titles on radical right parties and their supporters. Click here to see what’s new.
Category: Political Science
How do you measure political secularism at the individual level?
For better (seriously?) or worse (you betcha!), politics and religion are intimately intertwined. While everyone and their grandfather (and especially their grandfather) gets worked up about immigration from Muslim-majority countries, the more relevant development in much of Europe is secularisation. https://youtu.be/z_s-ab2YCMY Secularisation as a process has many facets (e.g. a decline of religious membership, practice,…
What is (international) comparative political sociology?
Glad you asked. Because for once, I have a tentative answer: I have written a short (2,000 words) chapter on comparative political sociology for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. This is a first draft that may or may not change considerably over the coming months, but I’m putting it here for anyone who might…
The AfD and the East-West divide in German Politics
Why is the #AfD so strong in Germany’s eastern states, and what role do they play for the party?
SCoRE and the geography of radical right resentment in Germany
The good folks at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin have invited me for a talk about our ORA project on subnational contexts and the Radical Right in general, and some findings on the German case in particular. [su_box title="Update"]This research has become an open access journal article. Click on the DOI to read it! [bibtex file=ka.bib sort=year order=desc…
Germany’s AfD 2013-2022: much, much stronger in the eastern states
My piece on the role that Germany’s eastern states – the territory of the former GDR – have played for the breakthrough and rise of the radical right Alternative for Germany has been “forthcoming” for a while. So long indeed that it was necessary to update this graph, which shows how (and where) electoral support…
Note to European Politics people: if Uncle Sam offers a “small honorarium”, run for the hills
Before and after the recent German elections, I was invited to a number of virtual roundtables, which was good clean fun. One of them was hosted by an institution in the US and implied an unexpected “small honorarium” of 200 dollars. So far so good. I promptly forgot about the money until a couple of…
Cas Mudde and I talk about the 2021 German federal elections
Cas Mudde and I discuss the 2021 German federal elections
Germany’s next government could be the most secular in decades
In all likelihood, Germany’s next government will be more secular than most of its predecessors. Here is why.
How good/bad were the 2017 German election polls?
People mock pollsters whose findings they don’t like. Here is a totally unbiased look at how well eight major companies did in the 2017 elections