My Radical Right Research Bot is no longer dependent on Twitter. Yay!

The general election in the Netherlands on 29 October produced a really stunning level of fragmentation. Two parties tied for the largest in seats, with 26 seats apiece. That’s 17.3%! The par…

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In which I show you how to teach 70 years of Modern German history in just under 90 seconds.

This new study by Democracy Matters (as reported in Politico) is typical of a wave of recent commen...

Today, I’m releasing a shiny new version of the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right (in (Western) Europe)™. With 222 new titles, this is the biggest update ever. It is more than twice the size of last year’s update (which had been the biggest until today) and increases the total number of titles by some 18% to 1436 titles. To use the technical term: it is an absolute monster. Watch the video to see what is new, or read the full write-up here: https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/222-new-pieces-of-research-on-the-radical-right/

Here is a by-catch finding from my recent article on the micro-foundations of the two-worlds theory of moral policy (full article, ungated). In the

Chloé Delaporte on the rise of an autonomous Christian film industry in the United States, its connections to the Trump administration, and its attempts to go global.

Not if generational replacement has anything to say about it!

Plans by far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmakers to visit Russia have drawn outrage from opponents who say it serves the Kremlin's interests. Meanwhile, Germany's exports have rebounded. DW has the latest.

The radical right became a relevant party family in most west European polities in the 1990s and early 2000s, but Germany was a negative outlier up until very recently. Right-wing mobilisation success remained confinded to the local and regional level, as previous far-right parties never managed to escape from the shadow of “Grandpa’s Fascism”. This only changed with the rise, electoral breakthrough, and transformation of “Alternative for Germany” (AfD), which quickly became the dominant far-right actor. Germany’s “new” eastern states were crucial for the AfD’s ascendancy. In the east, the AfD began to experiment with nativist messages as early as 2014. Their electoral breakthroughs in the state elections of this year helped sustain the party through the wilderness year of 2015 and provided personel, ressources, and a template for the AfD’s transformation. Since its inception, support for the AfD in the east has been at least twice as high as in the west. This can be fully explained by substantively higher levels of nativist attitudes in the eastern population. As all alleged causes of this nativism are structural, the eastern states seem set to remain a stronghold for the far right in the medium- to long-term.

Mehrere AfD-Politiker wollen an einer Konferenz der Brics-plus-Staaten in Sotschi teilnehmen. Ein zunächst geplantes Treffen mit Dmitri Medwedew findet doch nicht statt.

Wegen des Verdachts auf Betrug und Untreue haben Ermittler Büros mehrerer AfD-Politiker in Bayern durchsucht. Einer der Verdächtigen ist Mitglied des Bundestags.

The bigger story here is that for the first time since the 1960s, the German radical/extreme right vote is united. That is one scary perspective.

Most Americans are Still Christians -- Democrats Seem to Have Forgotten

AfD, Pegida, Neonazis - die Mitte-Studie macht den Machern Sorgen. Politiologe Arzheimer warnt, Einstellunge mit Politik gleichzusetzen.

I made a version of this plot a few years ago. I ended up revisiting it this morning because I&rsqu...

Church, State, and Public Schools