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British Eurocrats, the Five Stars, Conference Posters, Dutch Twitter, and a surprise: five links I liked

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May 152018

Brexit-hit British EU staff ditch UK passports. As it turns out, the others still see them as Brits.
The POP blog published an interesting article in 2017: “The 5 Star Movement is Neither Left-Wing nor Antifascist”, which is currently trending on Twitter (you wonder why). Still worth reading.
Good advice on the LSE Impact Blog: if you ever need to design a conference poster, look no further. If you want the aesthetically best results, ignore what they say about PowerPoint (shudder!) and indulge your inner nerd and do your conference poster with LaTeX/beamer. It’s easier than you think.
Is Dutch Twitter a populist paradise? The answer may surprise you (or probably not if you know anything about the way Wilders runs the PVV)
But this will surprise you: What is the modal, median, and mean number of studies you need to run to get a significant finding when in reality, there is no effect whatsoever?

Crooked right-wingers, Nazi Grandmas, pesky exam questions, and multiple party identification: four German links I liked

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May 072018

German media report that about 10 per cent of all MPs for the Radical Right AfD (state and federal level) are currently investigated by the police. Allegations range from incitement to fraud and tax evasion. In dubio pro and all that, but it’s not exactly what you normally mean by a law & order party, eh?
A 89-year old “Nazi Grandma” has failed to show up for the start of her prison sentence.
German school-leaving exam has students discuss the differences between the hopes connected to the British referendum, and the reality of Brexit since. The usual suspects in the UK are predictably outraged.
Political involvement, cross-pressures, and multi-party identification in Germany – JEPOP journal publishes very cool article by my erstwhile PhD student @sabrinamayer

Pooling Polish polls, British parties and the EU, white nationalists, and the Radical Right’s gendered policy agendas: four links I liked

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Apr 192018

Once more, Ben Stanley has pooled the poles’ polls (TM). The result? Some movement, but no crisis.
Neat: Alexandre Afonso tracks British parties’ positions on European integration from 1999 to 2017 using Chapel Hill data
Feeling paranoid? Here is an article about “white nationalists infiltrating our workplaces as secret agents”. Actually, it’s mostly about a single agent, but still an interesting article.
Almost by definition, my Radical Right Research Robot posts oodles of interesting links (if you are into that stuff), but here is a favourite that I read with my students just a few weeks ago:

the effect of immigration and the #RadicalRight T. Akkerman. “Gender and the Radical Right in Western Europe. A Comparative Analysis of Policy Agendas”. In: Patterns of Prejudice 49.1-2 (2015), pp. 37-60. https://t.co/fhatSkdV48. pic.twitter.com/Ay1mFUMBIe
— Radical Right Research Robot (@RRResRobot) April 5, 2018

Brexit, Italy, twitter bots, Germany, blogs: five links I liked

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Apr 032018

From the Monkey Cage: Italy just voted for two very different kinds of populism
The botrnot package for the R language: Which world leaders are actually bots? (Use your own judgment)
Science community blogs: recognising value and measuring reach
Germany being Germany (or Bavaria?): German minister under fire for no women in leadership team
11 Brexit promises the government quietly dropped. Well, “promise” was probably too strong a word. More like intentions. Out-of-the-box thinking etc.

Brexit, Twitter, the AfD, Trump, and Brexit: Five links I liked

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Feb 122018

Spoiler: no spoiler: “What the 2015 Greek debt negotiations tell us about Germany’s negotiating stance on Brexit” (Luuk Molthof on the LSE blog)
48% of scientists on Twitter are social scientists? Only 48%?
Interesting piece in the Atlantic about the AfD parliamentary party in the Bundestag and the Bundestag’s interaction with them.
If you really, really want to read it, here is a list of racist remarks Donald Trump has made over the last decades.
Support for Brexit has been slipping at 3/5ths of a percentage point per month

Gary King, the SPD, the (alt-)right, and declining support for Brexit: five links I liked

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Jan 172018

Gary King came here and gave a very cool talk. He experimentally varied the content of small-ish news outlets (!), and the national conversation on Social Media changed massively. In other news, ethics is overrated 😉
Germany’s SPD really dislikes the idea of being in power (or at least in a coalition)
The New Statesman has a rather depressing piece on the alt-right’s internet
If that is not enought, the New York Times has a long list of Trump’s racist statements and deeds going back to the 1980s
Chris Hanretty says that public support for Brexit is declining

Trump, R, and the French right: five links I liked

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Dec 172017

One of the best (and most depressing) articles on Trump I’ve read so far: “Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation”
If you learnt R as a grad student and if that was some time ago (cough), here is help to get you started on the new ways of doing things in R
To further drive this home, here is a quick and only slightly dirty analysis of the Weinstein effect in newspaper reporting using tidytext
What remains of the traditional French centre-right after Macron is poaching on the Front National. Art Goldhammer nails it.
Meanwhile, the Front National is once more in hot water over the misuse of EU funds.

Bitcoin, Brexit, Beauty: Four links I liked

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Dec 062017

#Bitcoin an even bigger waste of energy than previously thought. Some people claim that running the currency (if it is one) right now use up as much energy as running Denmark. After careful consideration, I prefer Denmark.
A long, thoughtful essay on Brexit, written from a semi-Canadian perspective. Well worth your time.
Another little Brexit gem: “did the SNP’s mixed signals encourage those for independence to vote for #Brexit”? I’m not convinced (have a look at the confidence intervals), but it is an interesting piece.
An act of sheer (political) beauty: German artists build “Holocaust memorial” outside far-right politician’s house

Nick Griffin, Trump, Google Scholar, and some more: five links I liked

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Mar 222017

Life is stranger than fiction: Former BNP leader Nick Griffin says he hopes to emigrate to Hungary within ’the next six month’. Of course, he will be an ex-pat, not an immigrant there.
Over at the LSE blog, Eric Kaufman explains why the fear of ’Islamization’ is driving populist right support, and what to do about it. Read that.
An interesting piece by Kieran Healy on the unfitness of Google Scholar as a tool for assessing scholarly performance. (You would never try this at home, right?)
From the Monkey Cage: News regarding Trump’s abysmal approval readings are not fake news.
And one of my own: Why I think that the Schulz effect is real.

Trump, far-right parties, and academic websites: five links I liked

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Feb 102017

Germany’s top court does not ban the right-wing extremist NPD, because it deems the party irrelevant by now
On the apparent madness in the White House: A Strategic Lens Won’t Bring Trump into Focus, So Let’s Give Psychology a Shot (Honest Graft)
A rather different view on Trump: Trump’s lies as a rational choice (Fully Myelinated)
The AfD is down to 11% in national polls (projection) after Holocaust remarks
What academics and academic websites could have learned from Discogs and IMDB (but they did not)

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