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

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…
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
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…

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…

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…