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Category: Political Science
A podcast episode about the AfD and Germany
There’s a new PolSci podcast in town, and I’m on the first episode, talking about the AfD and Germany.
Interview with ECPS: “Remigration” plans echo the ideology of the 1930s & 1940s
In an interview with the ECPS, I discuss the the AfD’s trajectory from the softly eurosceptic centre towards the extreme right.
You can now create deepfake videos in the safety and comfort of your home
I cloned myself and lived to tell the tale.
“Bard, tell me a joke about Max Weber”
Sure, here is a joke about Max Weber:Why did Max Weber become a sociologist?Because he was interested in the sociology of bureaucracy.I hope you found it funny! As a coda to a grey and mildly depressing Sunday, I checked in with Bard to see if it was any better than half a year ago. The…
2 invite code for Bluesky (but Twitter is fine)
Twitter may be burning, but I’m not leaving yet (as I have said a thousand times before). Still, it is good to have alternatives, and so I set up an account on Mastodon back in November ’22 when we all felt the evil presence of You-Know-Who. But much as I like the ideas behind Mastodon…
Peer review: a drama in 3 lines
When even so-so- journals reject promising manuscripts if even one reviewer doesn’t like them, the system is broken. That’s the long and the short of it.
What is the role of place for populist radical right sentiment, and what does place even mean?
There is a lot of interest in the Political Geography of the Radical Right. We identify 4 different aspects of ‘place’ and show how they relate to far-right attitudes throughout Germany. Watch the video, or read the free article.
The secret of the AfD’s success? It’s not protest voting
Unideological protest voting is not a driving the surge in support for the radical right AfD. Here is why.
Predatory publishing plumbing new lows
Hey look, I have unlocked a new level of predatory publishing fraud: someone out there is automating so aggressively that they are not just misspelling the title of my article and inventing an affiliation for me: they literally can’t be arsed to spell out my name. Of course, there is no one at King’s with…