What Drives the Extreme Right Vote: Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant...
Everyone just seems to know that the voters of the Extreme Right hate foreigners in general and immigrants in particular, but robust comparative evidence for the alleged xenophobia – Radical Right vote...
View ArticleThe Alternative Italian Job: Disbanding the Army that Never Was
The Guardian had a wonderful short article last week. Apparently, Italy invented a 300,000 strong army in the 1950s as part of the great game that was the Cold War. And apparently they assumed that the...
View ArticleBrexit, Italy, twitter bots, Germany, blogs: five links I liked
From the Monkey Cage: Italy just voted for two very different kinds of populism The botrnot package for the R language: Which world leaders are actually bots? (Use your own judgment) Science community...
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The legacy of fascist architecture
This is an interesting article about the legacy of fascist architecture in . The unfavourable comparison with is a bit misleading: while swastikas are banned & some buildings were destroyed, we...
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Italian Populism, Trump’s voters, Germany’s Home Office, and Neo-Nazis in...
A retired “general”, a symbolism that is borrowed from France’s Yellow Vests – what could possibly go wrong? Meet Italy’s latest populist craze, the Orange Jackets. Germany’s Home Secretary said in an...
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Unmarked police in the US, extremists in the German army, and the legacy of...
Large parts of the GOP are nominally opposed to big government. But they have done nothing to stop the growth of ever more armed police forces – on the contrary. This long read about law enforcement in...
View ArticleResearch on the Radical Right in Italy
It is Friday afternoon, and everyone is getting very excited about the Italian elections and the likely success of the far right. So am I. But something irks me. For obvious reasons, Italy is a rather...
View ArticleGespräch mit dpa über die Wahl in Italien und Giorgia Meloni
Mit der dpa habe ich ein längeres Gespräch über die italienischen Rechtsparteien, deren Wahlsieg und die möglichen Konsequenzen für Europa gesprochen. Davon übriggeblieben ist im Agenturtext...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Mussolini’s Ghost?
Not too many, it would seem. Good, short article on the far right in Italy today and its relationship with historical Fascism. Related posts: Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What...
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