Centrist statistics dads, where would you rather go for lunch?
Nov 072021
Nov 052021
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…
Oct 312021
Utterly depressing. Outrageous and despicable.
Oct 042021
Cas Mudde and I discuss the 2021 German federal elections
Oct 032021
In all likelihood, Germany’s next government will be more secular than most of its predecessors. Here is why.
Sep 252021
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
Sep 242021
Mit Maria Fiedler vom Tagesspiegel habe ich über den aktuellen Wahlkampf der AfD und die möglichen Perspektiven der Partei nach der Bundestagswahl 2021 gesprochen. Erfreulicherweise gibt es keine Paywall https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-fluegelkaempfe-werden-wieder-aufbrechen-wie-ein-politikwissenschaftler-die-zukunft-der-afd-bewertet/27641894.html
Sep 232021
Over at The Atlantic, Yasmeen Serhan has an interesting article about far-right politics in Germany and its implications for the wider world, with some choice quotes from Constanze Stelzenmüller, Hans Kundnani, and yours truly.
Sep 172021
Everyone who cares about German elections is very excited by now, because it’s just over a week until election day. And I realise that I have not blogged about this election at all. One reason is that I have not set up a poll aggregator this time round. There are enough better-run sites doing this…
Sep 142021
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,…