Extremism & Democracy

Following recent changes in our convenorship, we would like to welcome Caterina Froio, currently VOX-Pol Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, as new joint convenor of the SG. Caterina has worked alongside the SG convenors to organise ‘E&D-endorsed’ sections at the ECPR General Conferences in Prague and Oslo; we are thus very happy to [Read More]

As of January 2017, Sarah de Lange has stepped down from the convenorship of the Standing Group. Her recent appointment to full professor at the University of Amsterdam, and the increasing commitments associated to the post, made it difficult for her to devote the Standing Group the same attention and care of the three previous [Read More]

By public demand, we have made the last three volumes of e-Extreme (15–17) available for download. All future volumes will be available for online browsing (ISSUU page) and download (newsletter page).

To all E&D Standing Group members, Your Standing Group membership is due for renewal. If you have not done so already, we would like to ask you to renew your membership. You can do so by logging in to the ECPR website, going to ‘My ECPR’ and then ‘My Groups’, and selecting ‘Renew Membership’. This [Read More]

The new issue of e-Extreme is out now! You can read the issue online by clicking on the window below. Enjoy!

Excellent news from the ECPR! The Section endorsed by the SG on Extremism & Democracy has been just accepted to the 2017 General Conference in Oslo. Congratulations to the Section Chairs, Caterina Froio and Steven van Hauwaert! More details on the Section here: Populism, Political Radicalism and Political Extremism: Normalisation and Contestation in Changing Democracies.

Please note that there are two job/Ph.D. postings at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) within the context of the project “Back to the National Roots? The Role and Impact of the Radical Right in Eastern Europe Today”. Deadline for applications is 4 December 2016. For further details, click here and here.

Conference: Austerity and Its Social and Political Consequences Editors: Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm, Dr. Tim Griebel, Dr. Thorsten Winkelmann Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 September 2016 Decision on abstracts: 30 September 2015 Submission final papers: 15 January 2017 A number of books and articles have been written about the retrenchment of the welfare state caused by [Read More]

The new issue of e-Extreme is out now and can be read online by clicking on the window below. Enjoy!

The first issue of e-Extreme‘s volume 17 is out now. The issue can be read online by clicking on the window below. Enjoy!