Overview

This book traces the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) from its inception in 2013 to its re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, emphasising the party’s nature as a “populist issue entrepreneur” and covering the three major crises that have shaken European party politics – the Eurozone crisis, the so-called refugee crisis and the COVID pandemic. Currently, books on the AfD are largely limited to historical accounts and surface-level analyses of the party. This volume is both empirically rigorous and conceptually nuanced: it seeks to understand the party’s political trajectory and its appeal to its supporters by using advanced quantitative methodologies to analyse voter behaviour, as well as by interpreting the party’s communication strategies through mixed empirical methods. It embeds this account within a well-grounded theoretical argument. The argument emphasises three important explanatory conditions – a favourable political opportunity structure, issue entrepreneurship, and the party’s stages of political development.

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Author:   Michael A. Hansen ,  Jonathan Olsen
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
ISBN:  

9783031508899

ISBN 10:   3031508890
Pages:   209
Publication Date:   29 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Far Right Failure: Parties of the Far Right in Germany, 1945-2023.- Chapter 3: A Theory of Populist Far Right Issue Entrepreneurship in an Age of Dealignment.- Chapter 4: Emergence: The AfD and the European Debt Crisis in in the 2013 Federal Election.- Chapter 5: Breakthrough: The Refugee Crisis, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and the Success of the AfD in the 2017 Federal Election.- Chapter 6: Sustainment: The AfD and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the 2021 Federal Election.- Chapter 7: Strategies for Sustaining Success: Ideological Positioning and Fashioning a Party Brand.- Chapter 8: Sustaining Success Beyond the Core: Campaign Posters and the Professionalization of the AfD.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Issue Entrepreneurship and the Future of the AfD.

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Michael A. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He previously held a Postdoctoral position at Lund University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Parkside. Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Woman's University, USA.

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