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Category: Political Science
What we are reading: Legislative Strength, Government Participation & Protest Voting
The debate about alleged protest vote for the radical right is really, really stale. A new paper promises to bring some much-needed fresh air. My students were not really convinced. Are they just picky?
When you run a predatory journal…
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In a land before time: offprints
Because there is a pandemic, we are improving the home. Because I’ve spent a year in the so-called office (i.e. the box room), the box room office is in particular need of improvement. Because it’s my box room office, it needs an especially good clean-out before there is any possibility of improvement. That’s why I’m…
What we are reading: Gender and the Radical Right Vote
Why are women (mostly) immune to the radical right? It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good brain is rarely in want of a male-dominated, chauvinist, sexist radical right party. Or something along these lines. Austen aside, for most radical right parties in (Western) Europe, the male-to-female ratio in their…
Our research on the AfD’s changing electorate is the most cited (fresh) article in Electoral Studies
Our recent article has been cited a lot (by local standards), and the ungated pre-print is still available.
What we are reading: Radical Right voters’ motives in Eastern and Western Europe
Is anti-immigration sentiment behind the radical right vote in all of Europe? It’s been a mere three decades since 1990, or as we old-timers are prone to say, a generation. But for some (cough) Europeanists, the CEE countries are still either terra incognita or just an extension of their western counterparts. While much of the…
The Far Right Bibliography: the second pandemic (aka spring 2021) update
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.
What we are reading: Corruption performance voting
What we are reading: Corruption performance voting Do voters punish government parties for high levels of corruption? Performance voting is a generalisation of economic voting: the idea that voters governments punish/reward for good/bad, well, performance. Low levels of systemic corruption are both an aspect and a precondition for a polity’s performance, so studying how voters’…
What we are reading: Class Voting in a Tripolar Space
The reading class exercise goes on. Inevitably, the class on the consequences of the Radical Right’s rise kicks off with some recent work on the underlying causes. What is the link between social class and radical right voting in Western Europe? The idea that the radical right forms a new party family, whose rise is…