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…
Germany will hold an early election in February 2025. It looks like the AfD could increase their 2021 result by half.
Ten days or so ahead of the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, I had a chat with Berlin-based British Deutschlandversteher Deborah Cole. Some quotes made it into this excellent explainer piece in the Guardian. Looks like Germany failed the test. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/29/germany-state-elections-populists-afd-bsw
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.
This is an excellent longread, which is based on actual science: the author has talked to many colleagues and me, and much of what we told him made it into the final product.
Mit dem Handelsblatt habe ich ausführlich über die Hintergründe des öffentlich ausgetragenen Streits zwischen dem Rassemblement National und der AfD (bzw. Krah) gesprochen. Der Artikel ist momentan nicht hinter einer Paywall. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/europawahl-nach-ss-eklat-afd-spitze-greift-gegen-krah-durch-01/100039144.html
I gave 20 minutes of my life to a journalist who wrote up the story of Germany’s biggest terrorism trial “for an American audience”, which is a phrase that inspires all sorts of despair. But one of my many wonderful quotes made it into the final product. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/21/prince-heinrich-reichsburger-plot-trial
Why had support for the AfD ballooned? And has it really come down in time for the 2024 EP elections?
