Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.
30.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 304 🔁 146 💬 16 📌 10
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Marie Skłodowska–Curie PhD Fellow @ GEM-Diamond University of Amsterdam/Université Libre de Bruxelles Research on far-right politics & illiberalism.
Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.
30.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 304 🔁 146 💬 16 📌 10On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
Deze verkiezingen behoren tot de top 3 meest veranderlijke ("volatiele") verkiezingen in Nederland. Zo'n 44 Kamerzetels verschieten van partijkleur /1
30.10.2025 07:37 — 👍 30 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 3🗳️ First exit polls from the Netherlands: Wilders’ PVV appears to shrink from 37 to 25 seats. Make no mistake — the far right remains strong. Support hasn’t disappeared; it’s shifted across parties. The Dutch political landscape is more fragmented than ever — and the far right is no exception. 🇳🇱
29.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 140 🔁 64 💬 5 📌 6Abstract
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
07.10.2025 07:14 — 👍 472 🔁 207 💬 6 📌 16Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
nos.nl/artikel/2583...
The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.
This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.
Petra Guasti, Steven M. Van Hauwaert, Larissa Beckmann, Leonie de Jonge & Andrej Zaslove on stage at the ECPR roundtable
Audience at the ECPR Roundtable on Illiberalism in Europe
🔴 Live at #ecprgc25 🎙️ Fascinating Featured Roundtable exploring the roots, variations, and consequences of #illiberalism across Europe 🚫🗣️
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Interested in mainstream responses to illiberalism and far right mobilization?Join us tomorrow at 10:45 for an interesting panel dealing with reactions to the far-right in various arenas @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social @javidibad.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social, discussed by @sldelange.bsky.social
25.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I know y'all just want to watch the #ESC in peace, but 📢 :The Spring 2025 update to the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right is out! 180 new titles added, making it the second-largest update ever. Radical right research is growing fast. Like the #RadicalRight ☹️ #PoliticalScience
16.05.2025 12:22 — 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2The results indicate that illiberalism has been present in far-right discourse since 1999, but large fluctuations existed until the late 2000s. After 2009, a stable trend evolved, with a marked increase since 2017 and the three dimensions trending together.
The article is openly available.
Empirically, we perform a quantitative content analysis on parliamentary speeches by far-right parties and develop an illiberalism dictionary for the context of the European Parliament. Based on this dictionary, we identify illiberal speeches and report annual percentual shares.
16.05.2025 15:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We build on conceptualizations of illiberalism as a set of ideas with a political, a socio-cultural and an economic dimension and argue that illiberalism is a useful perspective to understand how nativism, authoritarianism and populism are integrated into an overarching illiberal agenda.
16.05.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social
We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019
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On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.
It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.
I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.
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In #Germany, a watershed moment: Just hours after commemorating the Holocaust, the centre-right has accepted the support of the #farright #AfD to pass a (largely symbolic) motion against immigration, tearing a massive hole into the so-called 'firewall', Germany's variety of the cordon sanitaire.
29.01.2025 17:46 — 👍 311 🔁 177 💬 13 📌 26Dass die meisten Statements des AfD Parteitags auf programmatische und diskursive Annäherung von CDU/CSU an AfD verweisen, zeigt einmal mehr wie solches Mainstreaming extrem rechten Parteien nützt und aufgegriffen wird, um es als leeres Versprechen zu bezeichnen und die eigene Position zu stärken.
11.01.2025 13:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Die AfD hat sich was Neues überlegt, um Pressearbeit so weit wie möglich zu erschweren. Zwischen den Delegierten und dem Pressebereich sind nicht mehr nur Banderolen, sondern drei Meter Sperrzone und der Gästeblock. #pressefreiheit #rie1101 #Riesa
11.01.2025 09:09 — 👍 898 🔁 262 💬 45 📌 11Foto von Delegierten mit „Alice für Deutschland“-Herzen
Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla loben explizit Björn Höcke für seinen Wahlsieg. Und nachdem der wegen der SA-Parole „Alles für Deutschland“ verurteilt wurde, wurden hier nun offizielle Herzen verteilt mit „Alice für Deutschland“. #riesa #rie1101
11.01.2025 12:34 — 👍 464 🔁 102 💬 41 📌 25Die AfD ist wieder über 20%. Dabei hat die Bundesregierung doch dafür gesorgt dass die Asylanträge zurückgehen, dass endlich mehr abgeschoben wird, dass die Grenzen kontrolliert, Bezahlkarten eingeführt werden. Könnte es vielleicht sein dass rechte Politik nicht gegen Rechtsextreme hilft?
11.01.2025 09:37 — 👍 713 🔁 229 💬 24 📌 10Thousands have taken to the streets in protest against the pre-election conference that Germany's #farright #AfD is holding in one of their eastern strongholds. This live blog covers the events 👇
11.01.2025 09:06 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Tomorrow is the deadline to send your abstracts for the 2025 joint sessions!
If you work on authoritarian nostalgia, this is the workshop for you...
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Tiefer Einblick in das Vorgehen dieser Gurkentruppe und ihrer Obergurke die sich als große Strategen betrachten und demokratischer Öffentlichkeit mit Verachtung begegnen. Ein selbstverliebter Boys Club ohne Sinn für politische Verantwortung. Eine Partei die kein Mandat verdient
16.11.2024 07:39 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1Hey Duncan, thanks for the list. Could you please add me as well? Thank you!
15.11.2024 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Dutch government has been in office for only 4 months and a bit and the second NSC junior minister has just resigned over conflict with the other governing parties, and especially Wilders PVV. So far, the cabinet characterized by instability, inaction, and pushing the boundaries of rule of law
15.11.2024 12:23 — 👍 56 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 6Nothing to see here, just 5 of the 8 right-wing extremists arrested last week on terrorism charges, posing behind a banner of the party's youth wing with the 'real boss' (©️ The Guardian) of #Germany's #farright #AfD.
taz had the scoop: bit.ly/3O3VGy8?m=b
Wie man auch in belastenden Zeiten nicht die Hoffnung verliert 🧵
Seit Jahren gibt es kaum eine Pause.Schlimme Meldungen reihen sich aneinander. Der Rechtsextremismus steigt, Kriege und gewalttätige Konflikte nehmen zu, die Klimakrise wird immer dringlicher.
For all non-German speakers interested in the German far-right: a short summary of the @correctiv.org report on the gathering over a masterplan for mass deportation, including German citizens.
#correctiv
Millionen Menschen sollen Deutschland verlassen – auch deutsche Staatsbürger. CORRECTIV hat ein Treffen von hochrangigen AfD-Politikern, Neonazis und Unternehmern dokumentiert. Während Politiker harte Konsequenzen fordern, spricht AfD-Vorsitzende Weidel offen von „Remigration“.
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