Radical Right Bibliography: A major update
Since spring 2016, the bibliography has grown from 506 to 613 titles (that’s a cool 21% increase)
Towards a New Political Right in Continental Europe: Germany
This week, as part of their “New Right” lecture series, I was kindly invited to the University of Copenhagen to give a talk on the AfD and Pegida. Here are my slides.
Artikel im Handelsblatt zur Berlin-Wahl, u.a. mit O-Tönen von mir
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Interview with AFP on Merkel and the fallout from the Berlin election
A friendly chat with AFP became part of their story on the fallout from the Berlin election. Incidentally, the text was widely cross-published in Asia, and so I’m becoming a household name in Vietnam, China, and Pakistan 🙂 [contentcards url="https://www.yahoo.com/news/merkel-party-loses-ground-populist-afd-gains-berlin-161629578.html"]
Mr A goes to Copenhagen
The good folks over at CEMES are running a lecture series on the “New Political Right in Continental Europe“. What’s even better: they have kindly invited me to talk about Germany. Here is the abstract of my presentation: For decades, Germany has been a tough ground for the Radical Right. Support for right-wing parties such…
Interview with Handelsblatt Global on the eve of the Berlin election
Handelsblatt Global has a piece on the upcoming state election in Berlin. I try to evaluate the consequences of the likely result for federal politics. [contentcards url="https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/merkel-faces-another-bruising-vote-608508"]
Guest blogging at EUROPP: The AfD’s second place in Mecklenburg-West & the challenges facing Merkel in 2017
The result of yesterday’s regional election in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (aka Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the initiated or Meck-Pomm for the impatient) was not a surprise, but still a shock to many. I wrote a short article for the LSE’s EUROPP blog. Angela Merkel’s CDU came third behind the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the German Social Democrats…
Germany’s AfD does a Trump, demands blanket ban on asylum for Muslims
In a press statement this morning, the AfD’s deputy leader Alexander Gauland (who is also head of the party’s chapter and the parliamentary party in the Eastern state of Brandenburg) has demanded a (temporary) ban on Muslims seeking refuge in Germany “until all asylum seekers in Germany have been registered, checked upon, and have their…
Guest Blog: Brexit (Arne Niemann)
1st guest blog ever: Nach dem Brexit-Referendum bringen alle denkbaren Modelle für eine Neuregelung der Beziehungen zwischen Großbritannien und der Europäischen Union Nachteile: für Deutschland, für die EU – und besonders für Großbritannien selbst. Ein Verbleib Großbritanniens im Europäischen Wirtschaftraum (auch als „norwegisches Modell“ bezeichnet) wäre dabei für alle Beteiligten höchstwahrscheinlich mit den geringsten ökonomischen…
New Chapter: Electoral Research and Technology
An update on the state of the Handbook of Electoral Behaviour The forthcoming Sage Handbook of Electoral Behaviour has just “moved into production”. That is certainly a good thing, but no, I don’t know what that entails exactly either. Editing such a tome is great fun if you observe a small set of simple rules:…