Articles by Flora Baumgartner

August 3, 2026

My love, my car: inside right-wing transport policy

Flora Baumgartner
Opposition to sustainable transport projects is growing, because of distributive and identity grievances familiar from broader climate policy. Flora Baumgartner looks at how transport policies are contested locally, and how they act as glue for right-wing parties, locally and at a European level
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November 14, 2023

Is Germany going authoritarian-left?

Flora Baumgartner
Left-wing German politician Sahra Wagenknecht is launching a new party, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (– for Reason and Justice). With its likely ‘left-authoritarian’ agenda, BSW looks poised to shake up the German system. Flora Baumgartner analyses the party's profile, support base and prospects, placing it in the context of broader European developments
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Flora Baumgartner
Researcher & Lecturer, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

Flora's research interests centre around party politics, with a specific focus on climate politics and the political right.

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