Resources

On the far right

As social scientific research on the far right has grown in recent decades, researchers, groups, and institutions have created a wealth of accessible resources on the subject. Below are a few of the many resources available:

Kai Arzheimer’s website: https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/
- Extreme Right Bibliography: https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/
Cas Mudde’s podcast, Radikaal: https://www.radikaalpodcast.com/
C-REX: https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/
Knowing what’s (far) right: A compendium: https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/groups/compendium/c-rex-compendium-print-version.pdf
ECPR Extremism & Democracy website: https://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/extremismanddemocracy/
- e-Extreme newsletter: https://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/extremismanddemocracy/newsletter/
Routledge book series: Extremism and Democracy and Fascism and the Far Right

On writing

For general guidance, please see the academic writing guidance provided by the university: https://www.en.ub.uni-muenchen.de/writing/academic-writing/index.html. All writing benefits from feedback and revision, so try to write and then revise your work. Beyond that guidance, the university has a Writing Center (https://www.en.schreibzentrum.fak13.uni-muenchen.de/index.html) that offers students help.

Students wishing to improve their writing may find it helpful to consult guides on writing style, such as:

Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English Language. The Orwell Foundation: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/.¹

Strunk, W. & White, E.B. (1999). The Elements of Style. Pearson.

Use a citation management software to organise your papers and create bibiliographies. Zotero is particularly good because it is free, open source, and works across multiple operating systems.

If you are considering a career in research, you may find it helpful to familiarise yourself with typesetting programmes commonly used for research output, such as Markdown documents in the R programming environment (RStudio is a good tool for R) or (TexStudio is a good tool for ).

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Footnotes

Orwell offers six rules for good writing: (1) never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech that you are used to seeing in print (avoid cliché); (2) never use a long word when a short one will do (short and simple); (3) if it is possible to cut a word out, cut it out (simplicity!); (4) never use the passive voice when you can use the active voice; (5) never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent; and (6) break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barberous.↩︎

On the far right

On writing

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