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#11 The Immigration Attitudes of Dutch voters
8 out of 10 PVV voters think that "there are too many people of foreign background in the Netherlands". Education is the main driver of immigration…
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#10 The Radical Right and the Problem of Political Personnel
Radical right parties often struggle to find reliable political figures to staff government posts, and are often the subject of internal chaos and…
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#9 Muslims in the Israeli Labour Market
The Israeli economy is significantly dependent on cheap Palestinian labour from Gaza and the West Bank
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#8 Education and the electoral geography of the radical right in the Netherlands
The educational profile of the population is the most important explanation of why Wilders did better in some places than in others in this week's…
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#7 On the Barbarism of Others
We tend to think that our own evil is complex, ambiguous and fraught with moral qualms, while the evil of others is simple, clear cut and savage. But…
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#6 Visualising Fifty Years of Terrorist Violence in Israel and Palestine
I used a database of all recorded terrorist attacks in Israel and Palestine between 1970 and 2020
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#5 To what extent do Gazans support Hamas?
Survey data shows that Gazans have little trust in the Hamas government, and a majority of them favour a solution to the conflict that recognises the…
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Alexandre Afonso’s Political Economy Newsletter
Welcome to Alexandre Afonso's Political Economy Newsletter. In this newsletter I try to write about the politics of the economy and the economic drivers of politics.
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