What we are reading: Nostalgia in the Netherlands and radical right voting
How important is nostalgia for the far right in the Netherlands? We read Versteegen (2024) to find out. Here is what we learned
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What we are reading: EU issue voting in European Union member states
Is “Europe” still an issue that can (positively) motivate voters? 3 authors say ‘yes’, but we are not fully convinced.
Radical right voting as class-voting, 2024 edition
Studying the far-right vote in Europe, again This winter, I’m teaching a new iteration of my MA reading class on far-right voting in Europe. I have been doing this for a long time, and every now and then I feel the urge to summarise decades of research by stating the obvious: some people are simply…
A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes
Here is the new reading list on populist, eurosceptic and foreign policy attitudes for my MA seminar
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…
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?
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…
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…