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For more than a year or so, we have heard little about quarrels within Alternative for Germany.

Mit Mirjam Moll habe ich darüber gesprochen, was vom Bundesparteitag der Alternative für Deutschland zu erwarten ist: keine offenen Kämpfe um (wichtige) Posten, sondern vielmehr die Ratifikation des inzwischen ziemlich radikalen status quo.

Over the last three months or so, I have compiled the annual update to the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right (in (Western) Europe).

Für eine Veranstaltung des Studienprogramms Q+ zum Umgang mit der AfD nach den Landtagswahlen habe ich mir das rheinland-pfälzische Ergebnis näher angeschaut, das bei näherer Betrachtung ziemlich widersprüchlich ausfällt.

Wal und Wahlforschung: mit der dpa haben diverse Kolleg:innen und ich darüber gesprochen, wie aus dem verirrten Meeressäuger ein Politikum geworden ist und was das für die Zukunft erwarten lässt.

Few people outside Germany would care much about regional elections were it not for the far right.

The neighbouring village is essentially a case study for political sociologists.

Rhineland-Palatinate is going to the polls next weekend, and it’s not a pretty sight.

It’s that time of the year again: I’m compiling the 2026 edition of the ever expanding, endlessly eclectic, eminently erudite extreme right bibliography.

Vor einigen Wochen durfte ich auf Einladung von Schwuguntia e.V. in der Bar jeder Sicht einige Aspekte meiner Forschung aus den letzten ≈ 25 Jahren vorstellen.

Das Handelsblatt berichtet ausführlich über die Reaktion des “Vorfelds” auf den Skandal um die Beschäftigung von Freunden und Verwandten als Mitarbeiter von AfD-Abgeordneten und -Fraktionen.

Eight years ago on this day, the Radical Right Research Robot sent its first experimental tweet.

Going forward from today, I will stop publishing and simply repost this meme regularly.

Going through a folder of potentially useful screenshots, I came across these two gems.

Tom Nuttall is a proper Deutschlandvorsteher.

Für den “Systemfragen” Podcast des Deutschlandfunks durfte ich letzte Woche einige der Ergebnisse der jüngsten “Mitte”-Studie einordnen.

To raise awareness of the large body of research on far-right parties and their voters, the Radical Right Research Robot (RRRR) has been tweeting random references from the Extreme Right Bibliography since February 2018 and hopefully making everyone happy.

Mit der dpa habe ich ausführlich über die Befunde aus dem aktuellen Demokratiemonitor für Rheinland-Pfalz gesprochen.

The LSE’s EUROPP blog has kindly published a short, accessible summary of my recent article on Islamophobia in Western Europe.

Politico covers German conservatives’ debate about the ‘firewall’ (cordon sanitaire) and the far right’s lure, with a tiny bit of input from my good self.

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all: it is a little-known¹ fact that, under common law, vacant noble titles fall to the first claimant who successfully mounts the titular seat.² ² Transparency statement: this picture was taken a long time ago.³ In fact,…

My old friends at the esteemed journal sent me another missive.

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After I had my fill of medicine & bioscience, I have basically returned to my old twin passion of archaeology and anthropology.

My paper has won an award less than 12 hours after it was published, albeit only “provisionally”.

Over the last 15 years, social media have become an integral part of science infrastructure.

“Liked” is obviously doing a lot of work here, but I found these interesting nonetheless: 1 Over the last two years or so, Germany’s premier far-right party AfD a) has become even more openly extremist and b) has been riding high and sometimes even topping

Back in May, Cas Mudde wrote a characteristically good op-ed for the Guardian, which asked a very reasonable question: why are politicians, the media and the general public so obsessed with young men’s (alleged) shift to the radical right whilst ignoring…

1 Scientists can spend ages quibbling over terminology.

I am normally rather sceptical of historical explanations for far-right mobilisation and counter-mobilisation, but this podcast episode from The Conversation is very nuanced and quite convincing: 24 minutes of your time well spent. https://episodes.captiv…

Mit Lawrence Meinig habe ich für den Forschungspodcast der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität über wehrhafte Demokratie, Rechtsextremismus, Islamismus und die Polizei gesprochen.

Karmvir Padda is a sociologist at the University of Waterloo.

Religious prejudice in secular societies?

Choose one: a) This is reassuring, because our algorithmic overlords are still mostly quite stupid, or b) they are lulling us into a false sense of security until it is too late?

Believe it or not, today, Angela Merkel is travelling to Athens again, and this time, she will be discussing …. her autobiography, which has been translated into Greek.

What is the Delta Method?

Stata’s margins command can be a bit confusing Stata’s margins is a postestimation command which does all sorts of amazing things.

I read this the way it was intended: with gory fascination.

The collapse of Germany’s progressive ‘traffic light coalition’ in November 2024 triggered a snap election on February 23rd, 2025.

Life is full of unforeseen, yet entirely predictable obstacles: over-committing, over-optimism, and yes, occasionally, over-indulgence.

I get a lot of Academic Spam.

In this house, every day is S.M.

Die Ereignisse im Bundestag heute waren spannend, aber was sagen sie über die Erfolgsaussichten der neuen Regierung aus?

Not too much, probably.

This, my young friends, is a (West German) coin-operated payphone.

Was bedeutet der AfD-Erfolg, und wie sollte man damit (nicht) umgehen?

In the federal election on 23 February, the AfD was able to double its share of second votes with a significant increase in voter turnout.

I have the rare privilege of a job with very flexible working conditions, and I always loved working from home.

Zunächst mit dem SWR und dann mit dem Deutschlandfunk habe ich über das relativ gute Abschneiden der AfD im Wahlkreis Kaiserslautern gesprochen.

The internet is a strange place that can bring together people who never meet in real life.