Clearly defined concepts are certainly necessary for any kind of scientific progress, right? Who could possibly disagree with that? Yes, you guessed right: me, your friendly neighbourhood contrarian, begs to differ. In a forthcoming chapter, I argue that conceptual confusion has at least not hampered progress in one field close to my heart: European Radical Right Studies™. On the contrary: I think that a certain openness (laxness?) has drawn at least some people to the field. It has also allowed for a quantum of cross-pollination that might have been difficult to achieve otherwise. The author’s version/pre-print is here, but if that’s all too much to read, I’ll blog about some of the findings over the next days.
- Arzheimer, Kai. “Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies.” Demokratie und Entscheidung. Eds. Marker, Karl, Michael Roseneck, Annette Schmitt, and Jürgen Sirsch. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018. 23-40. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-24529-0_3
[BibTeX] [Download PDF] [HTML]@InCollection{arzheimer-2018, author = {Arzheimer, Kai}, title = {Conceptual Confusion is not Always a Bad Thing: The Curious Case of European Radical Right Studies}, booktitle = {Demokratie und Entscheidung}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Wiesbaden}, pages = {forthcoming}, year = 2018, url = {https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/conceptual-confusion-european-radical-right-studies.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-24529-0_3}, pages = {23-40}, html = {https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/conceptual-confusion-european-radical-right-studies}, editor = {Marker, Karl and Roseneck, Michael and Schmitt, Annette and Sirsch, Jürgen}, dateadded = {01-06-2018} }
