Neokonservatives Denken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Lorig, Wolfgang H.

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“…13 Geiβler in particular often disavowed leftist intellectualism, even attacking it in highly polemical fashion (Kraatz and Peters 2013; Tschirschwitz 2017: 194). While Geiβler thus did adopt concepts developed by social scientists and even consulted with sociologists such as Helmut Schelsky (Tschirschwitz 2017: 86), a representative of the German variant of “neoconservatism” (Lorig 1988: 89), he did not pick up the ideas of left-leaning social scientists, even if they could have substantiated his positions on social policy making. In that sense, as the social sciences had grown more polarized, so had their consultation by party leaders.…”

Section: Defusion and Demarcationmentioning

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Electoral Strategy or Historical Legacy? The CDU’s Reactions to Far-Right Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964–1990

Berg

2022

Soc. sci. hist.

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This article investigates how established political parties react to the emergence of a far-right party. Prevailing approaches explain established parties’ reactions either as based on a spatial model of politics or as determined by historical trajectory and political culture. Neither approach sufficiently accounts for how party leaders choose between these competing motives for actions or how their strategizing might evolve over time. To complement existing approaches, I suggest understanding the emergence of far-right parties as a problem of interpretation. How parties react to far-right emergence depends on what kinds of heuristics they draw on to make sense of the phenomenon of far-right voting. To validate my approach, I study different stances Germany’s center-right Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU) has taken toward two far-right parties in postwar West German history: the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), from 1964 to 1969, and the Die Republikaner (REP) from 1983 to 1990. Using archival material documenting internal deliberation, I argue that the social sciences have played a crucial role for how CDU leaders have evolved in their interpretation of far-right emergence. In the 1960s, party leaders drew from external social expertise on the far-right to discount the idea that the NPD was a resurgence of Nazism. In the 1980s, they were concerned with a reform project of their own party, leading them to grasp the REP through heuristics provided by scholarship on electoral strategizing. This resulted in a shift in strategies of repression against the NPD to strategies of demarcation versus co-optation against the REP.

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Section: Defusion and Demarcationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electoral Strategy or Historical Legacy? The CDU’s Reactions to Far-Right Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964–1990

Berg

2022

Soc. sci. hist.

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Neokonservatives Denken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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Electoral Strategy or Historical Legacy? The CDU’s Reactions to Far-Right Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964–1990

Electoral Strategy or Historical Legacy? The CDU’s Reactions to Far-Right Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964–1990

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