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Political Potentials, Deep-Seated Nativism and the Success of the German AfD

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
The German populist radical right party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) was founded amid various economic and political crises. This article argues that the electoral success of this political challenger, however, is rooted in more than the upsurge of ...
Julia Schulte-Cloos
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No Strong Leaders Needed? AfD Party Organisation Between Collective Leadership, Internal Democracy, and “Movement-Party” Strategy

Politics and Governance, 2021
This article analyses the formal and lived organisation of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany). We show that the party is exceptional among what is usually understood as the populist radical right (PRR) party family, at least ...
Anna-Sophie Heinze, Manès Weisskircher
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Partisan Affect in Times of Fractionalization: Visualizing Who Likes Whom in Germany, 1977 to 2020

Socius, 2022
This data visualization describes the warmth of feelings that supporters of all major parties in Germany hold toward their own and all other major parties and how these feelings changed between 1977 and 2020.
Ansgar Hudde
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Left Behind Together and Voting for Populism: Regional Out-Migration, Civic Engagement and the Electoral Success of Populist Radical Right Parties

Social Sciences, 2023
According to the academic debate, the populist radical right is particularly successful in regions that have been left behind economically or culturally.
Stephan Schütze
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SECURITIZATION OF MIGRATION AND THE RISING INFLUENCE OF POPULIST RADICAL RIGHT PARTIES IN EUROPEAN POLITICS

Ankara Avrupa Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2021
This article addresses the role of securitization of migration as the main binding factor for the populist radical right parties after the so-called ‘migration crisis’ and their increasing influence in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Özgür Ünal Eriş, Selcen Öner
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The Rise of Populism and the Reconfiguration of the German Political Space

Frontiers in Big Data, 2021
The paper explores the notion of a reconfiguration of political space in the context of the rise of populism and its effects on the political system. We focus on Germany and the appearance of the new right wing party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD).
Eckehard Olbrich, Sven Banisch
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as Populist Issue Entrepreneur: Explaining the Party and its Voters in the 2021 German Federal Election

German Politics, 2022
This article analyses the vote for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the 2021 German Federal Election. Using the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), we confirm some findings from previous studies, above all that attitudinal variables - including anti-immigrant ideology - are much stronger predictors of the AfD vote than socio-demographic ...
Michael A. Hansen, Jonathan Olsen
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CRISE MIGRATÓRIA NA ALEMANHA: DISCURSOS QUE ABREM E FECHAM FRONTEIRAS [PDF]

Entremeios, 2016
Germany has become one of the countries that most hosted refugees from armed conflicts in the region of Syria. Chancellor Angela Merkel, with her policy of open borders, has been criticized, especially by the party Alternative For Germany (AFD ...
VICTOR CARREÃO
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Using party press releases and Wikipedia page view data to analyse developments and determinants of parties’ issue prevalence: Evidence for the right-wing populist ‘Alternative for Germany’

Research & Politics, 2022
We make use of party press releases and Wikipedia page view data to study issue dynamics and its determinants of a relatively young right-wing populist party.
Marc Debus, Christoffer Florczak
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Preventing Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Barbarism in the Present and in the Future through Art: Using the Example of the Play “The Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Songs” by Peter Weiss

Changing Societies & Personalities, 2021
75 years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz, but racism, nationalism and xenophobia (including anti-Semitism) are still widespread; in fact, due to an increasingly solipsistic policy of international leaders, hostility against those who don’t ...
Oliver Keune
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