Authoritarian populism is a minority force in most western democracies

Yes, it's like PiS "won" the elections that doesn't mean it will govern. NYT consistently applies weird winner-take-all US metrics to PR elections with coalitions.

Thank you!

Punchline: Lots of things drive where the radical right does well in Germany as many excellent scholars have shown. But resentments rooted in being in the historical periphery of the nation state formation process remain important even today.

From the paper: a map of dialectic diversity today in Germany (drawing on a massive linguistic survey). This, we contend, reflects center-periphery dynamics, emerging out of patterns of historical state-building, which have consequences for electoral politics today.