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Europe as antipolitics machine
The customers in this Westminster café seem a strange mix of suited civil servants and builders in boots and hi-vis. But it’s worth the early start and the cup of industrial strength tea to beat a path back to the … Continue reading
Posted in academia, EU politics, Ireland, protest, W European politics
Tagged antipolitics, crisis, democracy, ECB, Euro, Europe, European Commission, eurozone, Greece, Ireland, political parties, politics, populism, protest, technocracy, technocrats, UCD
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A spectre of … something is haunting Europe
Photo: Tom Morris, via Wikicommons At 8.30am I am sitting in a thinktank seminar on ‘subterranean politics’ in Europe. At 8pm I am sitting in launch event for a book about populism in Europe and the America. It is a … Continue reading
Posted in populism, protest, Uncategorized, W European politics
Tagged Czech, Europe, farright, Jobbik, Latin America, lse, mary kaldor, mike richmond, parties, politics, populism, protest, subterranean politics, ucl
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Organisation and the far right: the Art of the possible
David Art’s new book Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press) is one of the boldest and most interesting pieces of writing on comparative European party politics I have seen for … Continue reading
Posted in CEE far-right, Hungary, middle classes, W European politics
Tagged extreme right, Germany, organisation, parties, sweden
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CEE parties: Gardeners’ World or Jurassic park?
A slow train wends it way through the tower blocks of South London to get me to plusher territory near Runnymede, where Birmingham University’s Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) is holding its annual research conference. As ever … Continue reading
>Imperialism and anti-imperialism in the small hours
> It’s early morning but I’m wide awake and I can’t sleep, so I go downstairs to read. I finish off a couple of books I was reading, and almost got through, over the holiday. I always to try and … Continue reading
>UK far-right allies with tiny pensioners party
> The anti-fascist website Norfolk Unity reports that the far-right British National Party concluded a electoral alliance in Stoke on Trent with one of the UK’s tiny Pensioners Party (not to be confused with the equally obscure Senior Citizens Party … Continue reading
>Westernizing the CEE far-right?
> An intriguing question pops up in my email inbox. Can I think of two or three examples of parties in CEE that might plausibly resemble the ‘radical right wing populists’ (as opposed to old-style neo-fascist or integral-national extreme right) … Continue reading
Posted in CEE far-right, W European politics
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>What’s making me go grey… ? Belgian Euro-election results, naturally
> Yesterday, I spent a frustrating couple of hours online trying to track down details of the Belgian pensioners party of the early 1990s Waardig Ouder Worden (Growing Old With Dignity). Although a typical peripheral minor party WOW did apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, politics of old age, W European politics
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>Ireland’s transfer season
> Taking a break from marking, I sat up late reading throughthe Irish election results with the help of the Irish Times election special. After a few scares along the way, dominant incumbent party – indeed dominant party in Irish … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, W European politics
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>Election resources: Allemagne nul points…
>Since ElectionWorld merged with Wikipedia, I’ve been casting around for slightly more reliable election sites and recently came across the hub site http://www.electoralresources.org, which also has a useful accompanying blog, Electoral Panorama. Alas it doesn’t overcome some of the deficiencies … Continue reading
Posted in political science, W European politics
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