Local government data & loving past me for once
Dealing with regionalised German government data is and remains a right pain, but at least past me has not been his usual idiotic self
Germany: the Identitarian Movement remains under surveillance
In 2016, Germany’s “Office for the Protection of the Constitution”, a.k.a. the spooks, put the German branch of the Identitarian Movement under surveillance. They are also listed in the Office’s yearly reports under the heading “right-wing extremist actors”. Germany being Germany, the IB in this country is organised as a registered association, which has taken…
2022 Lower Saxony election: the AfD double their 2017 result
Lower Saxony just held the last of 2022’s four state elections. The result is mostly in line with the pre-election surveys: both the SPD and the CDU (which in this state formed the last remaining Grand coalition) lost a few points, but the SPD remained stronger overall and is perceived as the winner. The Left…
Gespräch mit der NZZ über Frauen an der Spitze rechtsradikaler Parteien
Mit Julius Baumeister von der NZZ habe ich länglich über prominente Frauen in den Parteien der radikalen Rechten in Europa gesprochen. Ein paar Ergebnisse aus dieser Unterhaltung sind in den Artikel zu diesem Thema eingeflossen. https://www.nzz.ch/international/meloni-der-rechte-rand-wird-weiblicher-und-das-ist-kein-zufall-ld.1704877
Gespräch mit dpa über die Wahl in Italien und Giorgia Meloni
Mit der dpa habe ich ein längeres Gespräch über die italienischen Rechtsparteien, deren Wahlsieg und die möglichen Konsequenzen für Europa gesprochen. Davon übriggeblieben ist im Agenturtext vergleichsweise wenig – dafür wurde dieser von vielen Medien übernommen, u.a. von der FAZ. https://www.faz.net/agenturmeldungen/dpa/arzheimer-italien-wahl-beschert-eu-schwierige-zeiten-18345113.html
Autocracies like Russia end in these three ways – The Washington Post
Very good and rather sobering article by Kathryn Stoner on what is likely to happen after Putin
Let them eat cake, 2022 style
One morning at the train station, I saw this spoof campaign poster featuring Christian Lindner as he channels Marie Antoinette
What makes for a successful conference? | The Duck of Minerva
These are all good points
Research on the Radical Right in Italy
It is Friday afternoon, and everyone is getting very excited about the Italian elections and the likely success of the far right. So am I. But something irks me. For obvious reasons, Italy is a rather well-studied case of far right mobilisation. Also, obviously, much of the coverage in the media is focused on Meloni,…
Where have all the True Finns gone (from the ESS)?
I’m upset: It looks like voters and supporters of the radical right Finns Party were miscoded in the current version of the European Social Survey (round 10).