This is well worth 30 minutes of your time
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/126427169
Cas Mudde and I talk about the 2021 German federal elections
Cas Mudde and I discuss the 2021 German federal elections
Germany’s next government could be the most secular in decades
In all likelihood, Germany’s next government will be more secular than most of its predecessors. Here is why.
How good/bad were the 2017 German election polls?
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
Wahlkampf und Zukunftsperspektiven der AfD
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
What Germany tells us about far-right politics
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.
MLPD: the internationalist boys are back in town
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…
What we are reading: Causal Effects on Mainstream Parties’ Positions
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,…
What we are reading: Do PRR Parties Improve Representation?
Something good in everything? Could radical right-wing populism be a (whispers) good thing? Of course it all depends on what we mean by “good”. Backlund and Jungar have a modest proposal: they suggest that radical right success could improve the representation of policy preferences in parliament. Using data from both expert and voter surveys in…
Hintergrund zum Bundestagswahlkampf der AfD
Nadine Lindner hat für den Deutschlandfunk zum Wahlkampf der AfD produziert und dafür auch mit mir gesprochen. Ein paar Sekunden O-Ton haben es in die Sendung geschafft. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bundestagswahlkampf-die-afd-auf-der-suche-nach-einem.724.de.html?dram:article_id=502705
Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule really did for India
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/126427169