In the second episode of „Political Science? No Problem et al.!“ we talk to Nils Steiner about the new German party „BSW“, based on his research on the left-authoritarian supply gap.  What is special about this party? What peculiar positions does it take on cultural and economic issues? What might its electorate look like? And does it pose a threat to the rise of the radical right in Germany?

Nils is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mainz and studies voting behaviour, representation and political attitudes. You can follow him here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NilsSteiner. If you are interested in Nils‘ research on left-wing authoritarian voting behavior and parties, here are two papers mentioned in the episode: 
https://shorturl.at/BKR27
https://shorturl.at/qxEHO
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.12348

The paper by Sarah Wagner, Constantin Wurthmann and Jan Philipp Thomeczek on the voter potential of the BSW can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11615-023-00481-3

The mentioned analysis by Marc Debus, Christian Stecker and Jochen Müller on BSW party positions: https://twitter.com/DebusMarc/status/1744695079011254585

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