How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013–2017

Arzheimer, Kai; Berning, Carl C.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2019.04.004

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“…the wish to restrict welfare benefits to the native group was also important (Goerres et al, ). Finally, Arzheimer and Berning (), using a very large data set spanning the whole 2013–2017 period, demonstrate that the effect of anti‐immigration attitudes has become progressively stronger as the party radicalised and the saliency of the issue rose. By now, the AfD and their voters fit the somewhat stereotypical profile of a populist radical right party and its electorate.…”

Section: Why and How Did German Exceptionalism Come To An End?mentioning

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“…But it would be misleading to assume that the AfD and their inciting rhetoric have completely changed the public discourse of the Federal Republic. Arzheimer and Berning () show that attitudes on immigration have hardly shifted since 2013 but became more salient, particularly in 2016. Since then, the importance of these issues has declined, although they still rank high on the public's agenda and will likely retain this position.…”

Section: Why and How Did German Exceptionalism Come To An End?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…the sometimes chaotic arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees, provided a new lease of life to the party. Using social media data, Arzheimer and Berning () show that from mid‐2015, the AfD devoted less and less attention to European topics and instead turned to the signature issue of the radical right: immigration and the role of Muslims in European societies. Petry and other leading figures in the party stepped up their rhetoric, following a well‐worn pattern: some outrageous statement guaranteed them the attention of the media but was quickly followed up by the claim that they had been misunderstood or misquoted.…”

Section: Why and How Did German Exceptionalism Come To An End?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Founded in 2013, this party narrowly missed the electoral threshold in the federal election of September that year, remaining without parliamentary representation. Starting out as an Eurosceptic party, the AfD quickly moved further to the right, becoming a clearly radical-right party (Arzheimer and Berning 2019). In 2017, it entered national parliament and became the third most voted party.…”

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Does Radical-Right Success Make the Political Debate More Negative?

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Widmann

2020

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Political rhetoric has important effects on the quality of democracy, but we know very little about what causes variation in the tone of the political debate. We investigate how radical-right success affects the way the remaining politicians discuss political issues. Using an original dictionary, we measure different positive and negative emotions in a newly collected dataset of speeches in German state parliaments. Taking advantage of variation in the timing of elections when radical-right politicians enter these parliaments, we find that politicians of other parties respond to radical-right success by using more positive, instead of negative, emotions. A mix of quantitative and qualitative analyses suggest that the increase in positive emotions is used strategically for politicians to distance themselves from radical-right discourse. Our findings highlight how radical-right success can create incentives for other politicians to enforce norms that radical-right politicians breach.

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“…The most detailed account is to be found in (Butterwegge et al 2018, Chapter: "Entstehung und Entwicklung der AfD bis zur Gegenwart") which also provides information on other and earlier populist parties in Europe with very similar discourse strategies and concepts to those to be outlined below for AfD. Within the development process of the party an important factor is the role played by the massive influx of refugees (at least 800,000) in 2015 (Arzheimer and Berning 2019;Geiges 2018). The party is also the farthest right of any party on the parliamentary spectrum in Germany, which has naturally given rise to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution's (Bundesverfassungsschutz) placing it under observation.…”

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Vox España and Alternative für Deutschland: Propagating the Crisis of National Identity

Gould

2019

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This paper contains a comparative analysis of the presentation of the national identity of Spain and Germany by the far-right populist parties Vox España and Alternative für Deutschland. It shows how each party views national identity as being in a serious crisis arising from the betrayal by old-line parties which has led to the increased influence of the EU, the consequent reduction of national sovereignty, a deleterious impact on their own and on European culture, and a harmful influence on the family. The parties repudiate many of the provisions of the EU treaties. They are equally opposed to the presence of Islam in Christian Europe, viewing it as a menace to values shared by all European nations. These analyses lead to an examination of the performance of crisis by means of deliberate provocation and the use of electronic media. It shows how these parties from very different parts of Europe share remarkably close positions and use the technological achievements of the twenty-first century to attack the late-twentieth-century political and social achievements of the European Union in order to replace them with the nineteenth-century idea of the distinct ethno-cultural nation fully sovereign in its own nation-state.

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How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013–2017

Cited by 231 publications

References 42 publications

“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany

“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany

Does Radical-Right Success Make the Political Debate More Negative?

Vox España and Alternative für Deutschland: Propagating the Crisis of National Identity

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