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December 2023

November 2023

#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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October 2023

#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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#4 The Political Economy of Hamas
Destroying Hamas is a much less straightforward affair than columnists and politicians outside Israel want to think
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April 2022

#3 White working class areas for Le Pen, young ethnically diverse places for Mélenchon
Le Pen does better where there are more manual workers, Macron where there are more managers, Mélenchon in more diverse and younger places.
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#2 Economic Sanctions as Punishment vs. Economic Sanctions as Instruments
What is the actual objective of the sanctions imposed on Russia?
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March 2022

#1 Vladimir Putin's Popularity among Radical Right Voters in Western Europe
Were Radical Right Voters as Much in Love with Putin as their Elites?
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