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Hot references summer: the 2026 update of the radical right bibliography is hereIt's way past time for the annual update of the annual update of the far right bibliography. The 2026 edition brings you 130 new titles. As always, there is a lot on the determinants of PRR support (i.e. voting), but the update also covers issues such as gender, religion, party organisation, normalisation/mainstreaming, and many, many more. Related posts: Der Wal und ich The Rise of Illiberal Democracy – in 1997 Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right in Western Europe?www.kai-arzheimer.com

Very French problems 🇫🇷

The allure of workplace affairs: 'There was something intoxicating and thrilling about keeping it secret'STEFANIA INFANTENina is a flight attendant, Stéphane a captain. She was in a relationship for five years with a man who belittled her, while he was married and the father of three children. Their clandestine romance began in Lisbon:app.wallabag.it

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The Far Right Is Distorting CeutaWe’ve seen this before.www.theatlantic.com

new-ish paper: no country for country bumpkins

ScienceDirectAll content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply.www.sciencedirect.com

Be the stoic you want to see in the world

'That the death sentence for electoral processes was pronounced precisely on the day that commemorates the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution completed the bitterest irony'

Daniel Ortega establishes Latin America’s last dictatorship in NicaraguaThe authoritarian leader’s announcement of eradicating electoral processes seals the autocratic drift in the Central American country and paves the way for a new family dynastyenglish.elpais.com

Old school neo-fascism in #Germany: 3rd Way Check it out here: www.kai-arzheimer.com/germany-old-....

Give me logits or give me death - or, even better, predicted probabilities & friends

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really oddWhen psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes,[1]For example, hit vs. miss, correct vs...www.the100.ci

Burying the lede: Farage is almost as unpopular as Starmer

Why the questions about Reform UK and its wealthy donors won’t go awayThere have been more claims about Reform UK and its finances. In fact, it has become so complicated ...theconversation.com

There's still hope for Esperanto?

Nudists, peaceniks and freeloading travellers: the people keeping the Esperanto dream aliveEsperanto had always seemed to me like an idealistic movement that had failed. So why was its annual congress so vibrant and full of young people?www.theguardian.com

Will not change one thing, but I'm happy to report that they are in the you'll-hear-from-our-lawyers phase

Out in the open: AfD infightingWe're back in "Putsch in the AFD!!!" territory. Will it matter? No. Is it faintly amusing? Also no. Is it important? Perhaps. Related posts: Four far-right links I liked 4 quick takes on the result of the 2019 European Elections in Germany Six More Links I Likedwww.kai-arzheimer.com

'Controversial Russian journalist'

France expels Russian media commentator over disinformationTensions between Xenia Fedorova and the French date back to 2017, when President Emmanuel Macron accused her of spreading "defamatory falsehoods."www.dw.com

Are you looking for a good home for your research on the dynamics of #farright mobilisation and its implications for democracy? Look no further than this call 📣 We're particularly interested in innovative theoretical and empirical studies that critically engage with the radical–extreme distinction

Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformationThis Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...www.nature.com

Dear colleagues, I just emailed about 50 of you and received 19 (in words: nineteen) autoreplies within literal seconds. You are doing this whole summer break thing right. #AcademicChatter

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Relatable research #AcademicChatter

The incredibly underrated piece blog.oup.com/2013/11/poll... . Have a look! #polling #surveybias @JocelynAJEvans

Polling accuracy: a Q&A with Kai Arzheimer and Jocelyn EvansPolling data is ubiquitous in today's world, but it is is often difficult to easily understand the accuracy of polls. In a recent paper published in Political Analysis, Kai Arzheimer and Jocelyn Evans developed a new methodology for assessing the accuracy of polls in multiparty and multi-candidate elections.blog.oup.com

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Legacies are not that relevant for #farright politics today. #OpenAccess 📝 #Germany #Prussia

Oppression of Catholics in Prussia does not explain spatial differences in support for the radical right in Germany. A critique of Haffert (2022)A growing literature links contemporary far-right mobilization to the “legacies” of events in the distant past, but often, the effects are small, and …www.sciencedirect.com

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