Just three weeks until the French legislative elections. Get in the mood by listening to this excellent Radikaal Podcast episode with Rainbow Murray.
Four years ago, the Radical Right Research Bot started its life as a fun (?) little side project. To make Twitter slightly less dumb, the bot tweets about the many, many titles in the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. Some say that you cannot teach an old bot new tricks,…
The year is 2022. For the third time, a Le Pen is proceeding to the run-off for the French presidency. And unlike 2002 (when her father stood) and 2017, Marine Le Pen has a chance to win this time. Without doubt, a Le Pen presidency would upend French, European, and even global politics. This is…
I have updated the bibliography with 80 fresh titles. If you can spare two minutes, watch the video to see what is new.
The Radical Right bibliography has been updated. As of April 2021, it lists more than a thousand titles on radical right parties and their supporters. Click here to see what’s new.
The good folks at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin have invited me for a talk about our ORA project on subnational contexts and the Radical Right in general, and some findings on the German case in particular. [su_box title="Update"]This research has become an open access journal article. Click on the DOI to read it! [bibtex file=ka.bib sort=year order=desc…
Over at The Atlantic, Yasmeen Serhan has an interesting article about far-right politics in Germany and its implications for the wider world, with some choice quotes from Constanze Stelzenmüller, Hans Kundnani, and yours truly.
Does radical right success lead to mainstream re-positioning? Radical right parties have existed for decades now, but most of them are still seen as challengers, because they aim to disrupt the (liberal democratic) consensus in their respective societies. Existing parties can react by digging their heels in, or by accommodation. As I have argued elsewhere,…
Something good in everything? Could radical right-wing populism be a (whispers) good thing? Of course it all depends on what we mean by “good”. Backlund and Jungar have a modest proposal: they suggest that radical right success could improve the representation of policy preferences in parliament. Using data from both expert and voter surveys in…
Das Journal Frankfurt hat mit Hajo Funke und mir über ein neurechtes Bildungsprojekt gesprochen, das sich als “Gegenuni” bezeichnet. Ein cleverer Etikettenschwindel. https://www.journal-frankfurt.de/journal_news/Gesellschaft-2/Projekt-Gegenuni-Eine-rechtsextreme-Veranstaltung-die-sich-elegant-gibt-37612.html