Studying the far-right vote in Europe, again This winter, I’m teaching a new iteration of my MA reading class on far-right voting in Europe. I have been doing this for a long time, and every now and then I feel the urge to summarise decades of research by stating the obvious: some people are simply…
Here is a little gem from today’s Politbarometer survey. Most Germans (71%) don’t believe that Trump is able to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal (whatever that means), and only 24% think that he could do it. But for nearly two thirds of the far right AfD’s voters, the answer to that question is a hearty…
Germany will hold an early election in February 2025. It looks like the AfD could increase their 2021 result by half.
After the 2019 Green wave, many observers expected a blue-brownish backlash for 2024. And in many countries, these observers (who are these people, and why are they always so well-informed?) were not disappointed. In Germany, the governing “progressive” coalition took a rather spectacular beating, while the main opposition, the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) performed ok-ish. The…
Friedrich Merz, the CDU/CSU candidate for the chancellorship, is much more popular with men than with women. It makes you wonder why.
How it started: far right governments as an exception A decade or two ago, far right governments were a rarity in Europe. Of course, there were the Berlusconi governments of the 1990s and early 2000s that included the radical right Lega (then still the Lega Nord) and the post-fascist Alleanza Nazionale, i.e. the rebranded MSI.…
With just two days to go, this is my last look at AfD support in the polls before the 2024 EP elections.
Im Vorfeld der ostdeutschen Landtagswahlen war ich im Mai 2024 zu einem Gastvortrag an der Hochschule Magdeburg/Stendal eingeladen, bei dem es um Wahlmotive und Perspektiven der “Alternative für Deutschland” ging. Hier ist meine Präsentation.
