Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
What is (international) comparative political sociology?
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 AfD and the East-West divide in German Politics
Why is the #AfD so strong in Germany’s eastern states, and what role do they play for the party?
SCoRE and the geography of radical right resentment in Germany
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. [su_box title="Update"]This research has become an open access journal article. Click on the DOI to read it! [bibtex file=ka.bib sort=year order=desc…
Germany’s AfD 2013-2022: much, much stronger in the eastern states
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…
Failing better in Stata
The Stata idiom capture quietly makes it so that any output from the subsequent command is suppressed, and that even critical failures are happily ignored. Your script soldiers on, and you are none the wiser. I always thought that this is a wonderful metaphor for organisational behaviour. In unrelated news, every other summer, Statacorp comes…
Deutsche Welle on the AfD’s role in the Bundestag
In Germany’s parliaments, the other parties have created a cordon sanitaire around the AfD – and rightfully so. Deutsche Welle has an interesting article on this subject, with some input from Isabelle Borucki and yours truly. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-far-right-afd-feels-shunned-by-opponents-in-the-bundestag/a-60151662
The Daily Beast called, and they caught me in a foul mood
They cut out most of the expletives, which I find somewhat disappointing.
Markov’s chain (of fried chicken trucks)
Centrist statistics dads, where would you rather go for lunch?