Eine neue Konkurrentin im Parteiensystem? Die Alternative für Deutschland

Niedermayer, Oskar

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-02852-7_8

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“…42 Impressionistic evidence suggests that the AfD gradually opted for the latter course. Accompanied by quite intense struggling within the party leadership it abandoned its near exclusive focus on the Euro crisis and broadened its thematic spectrum.…”

Section: The Afd At the 2014 European And State Electionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Under the leadership of Bernd Lucke, a professor of macro-economics, it presented itself as a single-issue party with a rather narrow focus on the European debt crisis. 17 Its slim political agenda was dominated by liberal -conservative Euro-scepticism. Its platform demanded an 'orderly dissolution' of the European monetary zone and a return to national currencies or smaller, more homogeneous monetary associations.…”

Section: The Afd At the 2013 Federal Electionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The ‘Alternative für Deutschland in the Electorate’: Between Single-Issue and Right-Wing Populist Party

Schmitt‐Beck¹

2016

German Politics

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Section: The Afd At the 2014 European And State Electionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: The Afd At the 2013 Federal Electionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘Alternative für Deutschland in the Electorate’: Between Single-Issue and Right-Wing Populist Party

Schmitt‐Beck¹

2016

German Politics

156

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“…; Franzmann ; Lewandowsky et al. ; Niedermayer ). Importantly, AfD started with a different leadership and programmatic focus compared to what we observe for the years 2015 and 2016.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Electoral Supporter Base of the Alternative for Germany

Goerres

Spies

Kumlin

2018

Swiss Political Sci Review

108

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Using data from a recent nationwide survey, we provide the first analysis of the supporter base of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) since the party's split and ideological re‐orientation in mid‐2015. Hypotheses are derived from the literature on Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe. Our findings indicate that AfD support—despite the party's euro crisis origins and rapid organizational and ideational changes—is by now due to largely the same set of socio‐economic, attitudinal and contextual factors proven important for PRRP parties elsewhere. Right‐wing political attitudes concerning immigration, political distrust, fears of personal economic decline, as well as gender and socialisation effects are the most relevant explanatory variables. However, some of our findings – the importance of right‐wing economic policy preferences, the strong support by certain immigrant groups, and the role of the long‐term regional political context – stand out and distinguish the AfD from other Western European PRRPs.

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“…With these few studies, the literature on the AfD in the state parliaments is close to exhausted. The highest share of literature considers the AfD's success factors in elections (Pappi, Kurella, and Bräuninger 2019;Schmitt-Beck, Deth, and Staudt 2017;Lengfeld 2017;Niedermayer 2015), its stance on various policy areas (Jankowski, Schneider, and Tepe 2017) or how far right the party is (Bebnowski 2015). Partly drawing on this previous research and partly exploring new paths, this thesis postulates the following two hypotheses:…”

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confidence: 99%

Do the populists have a say? Estimating their effect on topic prevalence and polarization in German state legislature

Idelberger¹

2020

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Between 2008 and 2014, German politics experienced a shake-up by AfD’s move into the state parliaments. While many studies examine the party’s success factor in elections, only a few studies study the effect of the new party on parliamentary work. This thesis tests two hypotheses in this regard: First if the AfD set its primary focus on different policy areas than the other parties in the minor appellations and second if the entrance of the AfD leads to a higher polarization in a state parliament. We use the structural topic model to obtain topics for each appellation. To measure polarization, we rely on the expression of agreement and disagreement during a speech and a text classifier’s ability to distinguish between non-AfD and AfD speeches. As headline findings, we note that the AfD emphasizes policy areas in their appellations that provide the potential for populist statements such as extremism, migration, or law & order. Secondly, polarization generally increases with the party’s entrance into a state parliament, but the influence varies with the measurement chosen. More broadly, the results suggest that the STM and text classifiers’ metrics can be a reliable tool to draw inferences on significant research questions in social science.

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Eine neue Konkurrentin im Parteiensystem? Die Alternative für Deutschland

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

The ‘Alternative für Deutschland in the Electorate’: Between Single-Issue and Right-Wing Populist Party

The ‘Alternative für Deutschland in the Electorate’: Between Single-Issue and Right-Wing Populist Party

The Electoral Supporter Base of the Alternative for Germany

Do the populists have a say? Estimating their effect on topic prevalence and polarization in German state legislature

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