Ideological alternative? Analyzing <i>Alternative für Deutschland</i> candidates’ ideal points via black box scaling

Jankowski, Michael; Schneider, Sebastian H.; Tepe, Markus

doi:10.1177/1354068815625230

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“…Therefore, these results could be seen as an increase in the levels of polarization between the AfD supporters and the other partisans. This is in line with previous studies on the rise of the AfD that found that the party adopted a political agenda that was quite different from the other parties, and consequently they had attracted alienated voters who had become segregated from the rest of the electorate [24,31]. It was also found that the rise in party support had been accompanied by increased radicalization and polarization [10,19,49].…”

Section: Facebook Datasupporting

confidence: 90%

Measuring the Ease of Communication in Bipartite Social Endorsement Networks

Shahrezaye

Papakyriakopoulos

Serrano

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society

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In this work, complex weighted bipartite social networks are developed to efficiently analyze, project and extract network knowledge. Specifically, to assess the overall ease of communication between the different network sub-clusters, a proper projection and measurement method is developed in which the defined measurement is a function of the network structure and preserves maximum relevant information. Using simulations, it is shown how the introduced measurement correlates with the concept of political polarization, after which the proposed method is applied to Facebook networks to demonstrate its ability to capture the polarization dynamics over time. The method successfully captured the increasing political polarization between the Alternative für Deutschland's (AfD) supporters and the supporters of other political parties, which is in line with previous studies on the rise of the AfD in Germany's political sphere. CCS CONCEPTS • Networks → Social media networks; Network simulations; • Human-centered computing → Social network analysis; Social networking sites; • General and reference → Metrics; Estimation;

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Section: Facebook Datasupporting

confidence: 90%

Measuring the Ease of Communication in Bipartite Social Endorsement Networks

Shahrezaye

Papakyriakopoulos

Serrano

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society

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“…Nevertheless, there is still a relatively broad spectrum of right‐wing ideology within the party, with explicitly authoritarian and nationalist positions seemingly more dominant in the Eastern Länder (Jankowski et al. : 714).…”

Section: The Rise Of the Alternative For Germanymentioning

confidence: 99%

The mobilising effect of political choice

Hobolt

Hoerner

2019

European J Political Res

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Political choice is central to citizens' participation in elections. Nonetheless, little is known about the individual-level mechanisms that link political choice and turnout. It is argued in this article that turnout decisions are shaped not only by the differences between the parties (party polarisation), but also by the closeness of parties to citizens' own ideological position (congruence), and that congruence matters more in polarised systems where more is at stake. Analysing cross-national survey data from 80 elections, it is found that both polarisation and congruence have a mobilising effect, but that polarisation moderates the effect of congruence on turnout. To further explore the causal effect of political choice, the arrival of a new radical right-wing party in Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), is leveraged and the findings show that the presence of the AfD had a mobilising effect, especially for citizens with congruent views.

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“…Th is fi nding corresponds to immigration-sceptical attitudes of a large part of the AfD electorate (Schmitt-Beck, 2016). However, regarding authoritarianism, a similar study fi nds no signifi cant diff erences between AfD and CDU candidates (Jankowski, Schneider, & Tepe, 2017).…”

Section: Ideological Profi Lementioning

confidence: 88%

The AfD as a ‚Leaderless’ Right-Wing Populist Party. How the Leadership-Structure Dilemma Left an Imprint on the Party’s Leadership

Zons

Halstenbach

2019

Polish Political Science Review

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Despite its right-wing populist character, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) shows no signs of a strong party leadership. We ascribe this state of the party leadership to the AfD's institutionalization as a new party and show how organizational features interact with the skill set and goals of the party leaders. At the party level, we, fi rstly, outline the organizational change at the top of the party and the party leader selection rules. Secondly, we depict leadership turnover and competitiveness. At the leader level, we investigate the failure of Bernd Lucke, the key founder and one of the initial party leaders, as a manifestation of the leadership-structure dilemma of new parties. Embedded in a leadership team and faced with a growing extra-parliamentary party structure, Lucke tried to secure his initial autonomy and position of power by an attempt to become the sole party leader. His subsequent exit from the AfD laid bare the fact that he was not able to manage the challenges of the organizational consolidation phase, in which a new party needs a coordinator and consensus-builder. Th e AfD itself has proven its organizational autonomy from its initial leaders and its distaste for a strong and centralized party leadership. Th e barriers for the latter remain in place while, at the same time, the party institutionalization is still on-going, especially regarding its place in the German party competition.

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Ideological alternative? Analyzing Alternative für Deutschland candidates’ ideal points via black box scaling

Cited by 35 publications

References 34 publications

Measuring the Ease of Communication in Bipartite Social Endorsement Networks

Measuring the Ease of Communication in Bipartite Social Endorsement Networks

The mobilising effect of political choice

The AfD as a ‚Leaderless’ Right-Wing Populist Party. How the Leadership-Structure Dilemma Left an Imprint on the Party’s Leadership

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