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?
Category: Political Science
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
What we are reading: Causal Effects on Mainstream Parties’ Positions
Does radical right success lead to mainstream re-positioning? Radical right parties have existed for decades now, but most of them are still seen as challengers, because they aim to disrupt the (liberal democratic) consensus in their respective societies. Existing parties can react by digging their heels in, or by accommodation. As I have argued elsewhere,…
What we are reading: Do PRR Parties Improve Representation?
Something good in everything? Could radical right-wing populism be a (whispers) good thing? Of course it all depends on what we mean by “good”. Backlund and Jungar have a modest proposal: they suggest that radical right success could improve the representation of policy preferences in parliament. Using data from both expert and voter surveys in…
Digital geese and real graves
Google Scholar is a great tool for scientists, uncovering hidden connections that I might overlook. But sometimes, its abilities are a bit too uncanny .