Dr. Christian Schweiger is Visiting Professor at the University of Cooperative Education Saxony in Germany. Previously he was employed at TU Chemnitz, Durham University, and Trinity College Dublin. His research concentrates on Comparative European Politics and Comparative European Political Economy. His most recent publications include “Governance under the Covid-19 Pandemic: Comparative perspectives on Germany and Hungary” in Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft and “The German Economic Model: from Germany’s Social Market Economy to Neoliberalism?” in Oxford Handbook of German Politics (ed. Klaus Larres, Holger Moroff, and Ruth Wittlinger).
Episode 112: Eastern State Elections and Their Implications for National Politics
In state elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to first and second place, respectively, with over 30 percent of the vote in both states. …
