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University Lecturer Dismantles Trouw Article on Right-Wing Radicalization - nieuwrechts.nl

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The Voting Compass is once again under fire. While the newspaper Trouw reported earlier this week that right-wing parties were shifting more radically and further to the right, university lecturer Simon Otjes (Leiden University) has serious doubts about this. According to him, the analysis of the popular voting aid is flawed. "The problem is that this conclusion cannot be justified based on their models," Otjes writes in a comprehensive analysis.
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The Voting Compass is once again under fire. While the newspaper Trouw reported earlier this week that right-wing parties were shifting more radically and further to the right, university lecturer Simon Otjes (Leiden University) has serious doubts about this. According to him, the analysis of the popular voting aid is flawed. "The problem is that this conclusion cannot be justified based on their models," Otjes writes in a comprehensive analysis.

Know your vote (in terms of voting aid). Last Monday, I published in Trouw what we've all been dreading for so long in these elections: right-wing parties are becoming increasingly radical and right-wing, as the analysis of the Voting Compass has shown. And then it's true. Well, not according to the sharp mind and University Lecturer in Dutch Politics at Leiden, Simon Otjes. He sublimely dismantles the Voting Compass from North to South and from…

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