Apr 102022
Apr 082022
I have updated the bibliography with 80 fresh titles. If you can spare two minutes, watch the video to see what is new. https://youtu.be/-rYM1lT-t30
Mar 312022
The Radical Right bibliography has been updated. As of April 2021, it lists more than a thousand titles on radical right parties and their supporters. Click here to see what’s new.
Mar 302022
For better (seriously?) or worse (you betcha!), politics and religion are intimately intertwined. While everyone and their grandfather (and especially their grandfather) gets worked up about immigration from Muslim-majority countries, the more relevant development in much of Europe is secularisation. Secularisation as a process has many facets (e.g. a decline of religious membership, practice, and…
Mar 272022
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Mar 202022
Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
Feb 012022
Glad you asked. Because for once, I have a tentative answer: I have written a short (2,000 words) chapter on comparative political sociology for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. This is a first draft that may or may not change considerably over the coming months, but I’m putting it here for anyone who might…
Jan 252022
Why is the #AfD so strong in Germany’s eastern states, and what role do they play for the party?
Jan 182022
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. Here, our research question is whether the striking spatial differences in voting behaviour (including but not limited to the disproportionate strength…
Jan 102022
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…