On Sunday, one of Germany’s largest states went to the polls in a closely contested election. What can we learn from the results & how do they relate to looming deindustrialization in one of Germany’s industrial heartlands? A thread with some decriptive patterns from data on 1,101 municipalities. 🧵
Wi-REX will host the international conference “Ideologies and Networks Across Borders: The Transnational Far Right” in Leipzig from October 14–16, with additional support from the University of Luxembourg through the Marie Speyer Gender Excellence Grant.
CfP and more info: wi-rex.de/wp-content/u...
Save-the-date und CfP: Vom 13.-14.10.26 findet die nächste Wi-REX-Summer School "Rechtsextreme Netzwerke in Deutschland und weltweit" in Leipzig statt.
👉 Mehr Infos: wi-rex.de/wp-content/u...
Wir freuen uns über Einreichungen und eine weitere Verbreitung des Calls!
Der designierte chilenische Präsident José Antonio Kast ist kein Außenseiter, sondern Produkt rechter Elitenetzwerke mit Verbindungen zur Diktatur. Ihm gelingt es, das autoritäre Erbe der chilenischen Rechten neu zu artikulieren. 👇 #Chile
www.rosalux.de/news/...
Not to be missed!
🔔 Happy to share our new paper in npj Climate Action on the effects of major climate protests on politically interested bystanders, co-authored with David Schieferdecker, @jacobsenjannes.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right - https://cup.org/3NbC12s
- @asheinze.bsky.social & @gefjonoff.bsky.social
#FirstView
Polarisierung in Deutschland ist kein statischer Zustand. Daten aus dem Polarisierungsmonitor zeigen: Affektive Polarisierung nimmt nach Wahlen wieder ab.
Unser Beitrag in Forschung & Lehre (mit @bastianmlb.bsky.social und @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social):
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/zeitfragen/p...
Wir gedenken:
Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov
Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau.
Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.
New publication in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social!
Who perceives feminism as a threat, and why do a lot of women perceive feminism as threatening?
With @evaanduiza.bsky.social, we explore these questions in the context of Spain.
We find: ⬇️
doi.org/10.1017/S174...
I’m excited to share a new book, Reforming Primary Elections: Voters, Campaigns, and the Future of Congressional Politics, exploring how reforms could improve primaries. In our chapter, @msaeltzer.bsky.social & I analyze candidates in primaries. Free download: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Spanish right supports banning the use of burka and niqab in public spaces. The argument for the policy seems to be (partly) that it will promote the emancipation of women.
We happen to have evidence that a similar policy in France had the *opposite* effect.
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"Women and the Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Engagement in Unified Germany" by Catherine E. De Vries and Diana Z. O’Brien.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Call for Papers: On 22 April, @centremarcbloch.bsky.social, @kiu-network.bsky.social & ZOiS are hosting a workshop on the transformation of #Ukraine's labour market in wartime, focusing on agriculture, care work, transport, trade, industry & public services. Deadline: 20 February.
Read more 👇
Horseshoe theorising is not only cynical, it is also incredibly dangerous as all it does is legitimise the far right, while demonising any alternative left of centre
Sadly, it's the only trick the failed hegemony has in its bag and if that leads to the far right in power, it doesn't matter to them
Neu im #DVPWblog: Sven Hillen @sfb1472.uni-siegen.de und Jessica Kuhlmann @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social zeigen zur Bundestagswahl 2025: In engen Wahlkreisen wurde die Erststimme strategisch gegen die AfD gebündelt – besonders von politisch Interessierten.
👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/blockie...
#PoWi #BTW2025
The Tony Blair Institute’s "Energy Strategy Reset" report released today is a perfect illustration of tensions and inconsistencies of the Climate Realism view that emerged in US and Europe since the return of Trump, as @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I have recently argued in @iojournal.bsky.social 🧵
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High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
Against scientific evidence and just an act of pure cruelty. The Labour government's school guidance is an attack on basic freedoms and rights of LGBTQ+ people. It's ridiculous to think that these cowards and opportunists are the right people to defend this country's democracy against the far right.
New article and special issue!
Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies.
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I also feel extremely thankful to be part of the special issue that this paper introduces. Because of that I got to discuss these topics with some of the scholars I most admire.
I can’t overstate how much I learned from those discussions.
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨
Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."
Excited to welcome the fabulous @tinepaulsen.bsky.social today at our Politics Lecture Series at @humboldtuni.bsky.social. Come and join us!
Our launch of The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives is coming up tomorrow!
Sign up below.
Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
@chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social
It doesn't have to be like this. A 2,000-word profile of Tino Chrupalla is neither inevitable nor reflective of
balanced reporting. Such pieces instead amplify far-right discourses, while anti-racist/-fascist perspectives -or even accounts by those targeted by the far right- are in short supply.5/5
We find that journalists are often oblivious to far-right normalisation strategies. Even when adopting a critical tone, they're frequently outmatched by media-savvy far-right actors who skillfully use the platform they're given to legitimise their politics. 4/5
Such accounts privilege far-right talking points. @zeit.de for example, quotes the claim that Chrupalla's car was "stolen by Polish people". Neither fact-checked nor contested, this reproduces a classic xenophobic stereotype and serves to justify the AfD's call for a closed border to Poland. 3/5
