Manès Weisskircher
Biographic Data
| ID | 322653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manès Weisskircher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manès |
| FAMILY NAME | Weisskircher |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSKIRCHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2938-0951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Varieties of left-wing authoritarianism? The local foundations and intra-party heterogeneity of the German challenger party BSW
Research has emphasized both the existence of left-wing authoritarian attitudes among the European electorate and a lack of political supply. In Germany, this dynamic changed with the rise of the BSW. Advancing research on left-wing authoritarianism in general and the BSW specifically, we rely on original Voting Advice Application (VAA) data from six city elections in 2024, allowing us to study the supply- and demand-side at the local level. We h…
The AfD and its Electoral Persistence in Eastern Germany. Causes, Issues, and Implications
This Special Issue examines the persistence of AfD's electoral success and the party's strong regional entrenchment in Eastern Germany more than a decade after its foundation. Bringing together ten contributions, it explores the socio-economic, cultural, and political foundations of AfD support, transformations in party competition and generational dynamics, and the party’s strategic expansion into new issue areas such as gender, climate, foreign…
Explaining Attitudes Towards Climate Action in Germany
The people against the sun? ideology and strategy in far-right parties' climate obstruction of solar energy
Love as a key emotion for the far right? Environmentalism, affective politics and the Anastasia ecological settler movement in Germany
Research usually links the rise of the far right to a variety of negative emotions, especially fear and anger. This article analyses the case of the far-right ecological settler movement community Anastasia which, in the context of environmental activism, discursively centres on the positive emotion of love. Our key theoretical contribution is to highlight the importance of love for far-right mobilization while disentangling different functions o…
Shifts, Changes and Missed Opportunities? Reflection on the 2016 Special Issue Contemporary Far Right Racist Populism in Europe
In 2026, the racist far right is no longer on the rise but is itself an established political power formation in countries across the world: Donald Trump defeated the Democratic candidate, Kamala H
Why social movements struggle to change the EU
Social movement scholarship has emphasized that progressive ‘Europeanization from below’ may be a breeding ground for major EU reform and democratization. Empirically, however, activists have found it difficult to make gains when targeting the EU. To understand the challenges that activists face in the context of transnational EU mobilization, our article draws from agency-oriented approaches in social movement studies to propose an ‘EU mobilizat…
A Normal(ised) Far‐Right Party? A Long‐Term Perspective on the FPÖ 's Electoral Strength in Austria
The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has been a pioneer of ‘populism’ in Europe. In the 2024 general election, for the first time, it became the party which attracted the most votes. What explains the FPÖ's major role in Austrian politics and its quick resurgence after the infamous ‘Ibiza‐gate’ scandal? This article highlights three crucial aspects. First, it examines far‐right normalisation in Austria as a long‐term phenomenon because of mainstrea…
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy
This article studies the strategic considerations behind far-right movement-partyism in the context of ‘new’ issues such as Russia’s war against Ukraine. The question of military support to Ukraine, high energy prices, and the reception of war refugees soon became salient issues in many European states. In Germany, the government, dominated by the centre-left, moved towards greater military support. The loudest opponents of arms supply and sancti…
Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests
This article examines how political messengers, and not the message, influence attitudes toward renewable energy infrastructure amid an increasingly polarized climate change debate. Focusing on wind power, a highly politicized issue, and solar energy, less contentious, we conducted an experimental survey in Germany. We assess how either a far-right or an environmentalist critic affect acceptance of renewables. Importantly, our analysis examines s…
German Politics in Times of Crises
Fifty Years after Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
This article analyses the impact of the animal rights movement fifty years after the publication of Peter Singer's landmark book Animal Liberation in 1975. Examining the gains and losses of this vibrant social movement, the article takes a broad international perspective and makes the following key arguments: First, despite comprehensive animal welfare policies, state regulation has so far remained rather ineffective in reducing animal suffering,…
Reaching out beyond the national border? How far‐right actors in Germany and Norway evaluate transnationalism
Research has emphasised the importance of far‐right transnationalism, in terms of both ideology and practice. Yet, the literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of how far‐right actors themselves reflect their transnational practices (or lack thereof), such as party‐level exchange, joint protest events, or online communication. Drawing on original interview data from Germany and Norway, our research unveils that while far‐right ‘nationalists’ gen…
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right Pegida during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyzes how a preexisting far-right social movement organization responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) in Germany. We show that PEGIDA quickly adapted its previous immigration-related collective action frame, now predominantly portraying itself as a defender of democracy, constitutionality, and civil rights, while accusing the German gove…
Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics
Was Sie schon immer über Bewegungstheorie wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht zu fragen wagten
Article Was Sie schon immer über Bewegungstheorie wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht zu fragen wagten was published on October 1, 2023 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 36, issue 3)
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
While the politics of immigration in destination countries has been a prominent topic of research in comparative political science in Europe, the same does not apply to emigration and to the perspective of peripherical EU countries. This is true even though the flows of people moving from east to west and from south to north pose potentially significant challenges to ‘sending countries’ in Europe. This article sets up a research agenda aimed at c…
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform
The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field of democracy reform, even though populist radical right parties strongly criticize how democratic systems currently function. In an exploratory and qualitative study of four cases, we analyze the adaptation (or lack thereof) of ma…
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest
How do political parties respond to street protest by political outsiders widely considered to be ‘pariahs’ (i.e. radical or extremist actors)? Bridging the literature on responses to ‘populist’ radical right parties with insights from social movement studies, we propose a theoretical model that conceptualises potential party responses to pariah protest. Innovatively, our typology distinguishes between a set of formal and substantive responses to…
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough
This paper studies party-movement interactions in Germany, focusing on Die Linke and the AfD, the two most recent additions to Germany’s multi-party system. The electoral rise of both challenger parties went along with mass protests, opposition to Hartz IV in the mid-2000s and anti-Islamic PEGIDA mobilisation in the mid-2010s. We shift the emphasis from how social movements turn into political parties, including significant organisational and per…
New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics
In this Special Issue, we show that the study of civil society, social movements, and protest is central for assessing the current state of German politics. First, moving beyond political parties and electoral politics delivers crucial insights into the ideological, affective, and organisational structuring of emerging polarisation and cleavages. Second, the transformations in electoral politics are closely interrelated with dynamics in civil soc…
Die AfD als neue Volkspartei des Ostens?
Die AfD ist in Teilen Ostdeutschlands die stimmenstärkste Partei. Daher untersucht dieser Beitrag wesentliche Dimensionen der AfD als »ostdeutsches Phänomen«: (1) Um die parteiinternen Konflikte der AfD zu verstehen, sind die Kategorien »Ost« und »West« zwar relevant - nichtsdestotrotz gibt es wesentliche Konfliktlinien, die dazu quer verlaufen. (2) Hilfreicher ist die Ost-West-Dichotomie beim Verständnis der elektoralen Stärke der AfD. Die inner…
Die AfD als neue Volkspartei des Ostens?
AfD gegen die Grünen? Rechtspopulismus und klimapolitische Polarisierung in Deutschland
Der politische Konflikt um den Klimawandel bestimmt die deutsche Politik. Dieser Artikel untersucht die oftmals vernachlässigte Rolle der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in dieser Auseinandersetzung und zeigt, dass rechtspopulistische Parteien keine „single-issue“-Parteien sind. Dabei wird sowohl die Angebots- als auch die Nachfrageseite beleuchtet. Der Artikel fokussiert zunächst auf das klimapolitische Angebot der AfD und diskutiert, wie sie,…
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets
For many left-wing and liberal social movement activists, support for ‘Europe’ and opposition to a ‘nationalist’ turn has become a key motivation for their activism. Paradoxically, however, their opponents at the other end of the political spectrum, far-right activists, also positively identify as European. This article analyses one of the key developments in the contemporary European protest arena, i.e. the dominance of European identities, even…
The Strength of Far‐Right AfD in Eastern Germany
This article sheds light on one of the key developments in recent German politics and relates it to the broader debate on the electoral success of the far right. The rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany) is also a story about Germany’s internal political divide three decades after reunification, as the party has roughly twice as much support in the east than in the west. The article analyses the country’s east‐wes…
Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right
The increased salience of environmental concerns, first and foremost global warming, is one of the key developments of contemporary Western European politics. Still, the effects of global warming issues on electoral outcomes, party competition and polarization remain poorly understood. Our article shows how the construction of wind turbines fuels conflict between its key proponents and opponents, Green and populist radical right parties. Contenti…
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest
How do political parties respond to street protest by political outsiders widely considered to be ‘pariahs’ (i.e. radical or extremist actors)? Bridging the literature on responses to ‘populist’ radical right parties with insights from social movement studies, we propose a theoretical model that conceptualises potential party responses to pariah protest. Innovatively, our typology distinguishes between a set of formal and substantive responses to…
No Strong Leaders Needed? AfD Party Organisation Between Collective Leadership, Internal Democracy, and “Movement-Party” Strategy
This article analyses the formal and lived organisation of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany). We show that the party is exceptional among what is usually understood as the populist radical right (PRR) party family, at least from an organisational perspective: The AfD sharply contradicts the “standard model” of PRR party organisation, which emphasises “charismatic” leadership and the centralisation of power as key feat…
New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics
In this Special Issue, we show that the study of civil society, social movements, and protest is central for assessing the current state of German politics. First, moving beyond political parties and electoral politics delivers crucial insights into the ideological, affective, and organisational structuring of emerging polarisation and cleavages. Second, the transformations in electoral politics are closely interrelated with dynamics in civil soc…
Anti-Islamic Pegida Beyond Germany
The rise of anti-Islamic PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes) is one of the latest sustained episodes of radical right mobilisation in Western Europe outside the electoral arena. This study provides a first comparative analysis of PEGIDA beyond Germany and its core region of Saxony. Combining protest event analysis with online data and network analysis, we identify why PEGIDA mustered low-scale support in some co…
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough
This paper studies party-movement interactions in Germany, focusing on Die Linke and the AfD, the two most recent additions to Germany’s multi-party system. The electoral rise of both challenger parties went along with mass protests, opposition to Hartz IV in the mid-2000s and anti-Islamic PEGIDA mobilisation in the mid-2010s. We shift the emphasis from how social movements turn into political parties, including significant organisational and per…
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform
The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field of democracy reform, even though populist radical right parties strongly criticize how democratic systems currently function. In an exploratory and qualitative study of four cases, we analyze the adaptation (or lack thereof) of ma…
Far-right movement-party activism as strategy
This article studies the strategic considerations behind far-right movement-partyism in the context of ‘new’ issues such as Russia’s war against Ukraine. The question of military support to Ukraine, high energy prices, and the reception of war refugees soon became salient issues in many European states. In Germany, the government, dominated by the centre-left, moved towards greater military support. The loudest opponents of arms supply and sancti…
The European Citizens’ Initiative
Research on the European Citizens’ Initiative has neglected the crucial role of social movements. This article contributes to the study of mobilization strategies and campaign consequences through two novel arguments: First, in explaining successful mobilization, I argue that the European Citizens’ Initiative as a political opportunity structure incentivizes the organization of nationally focused campaigns centred in at least one large, that is, …
Reaching out beyond the national border? How far‐right actors in Germany and Norway evaluate transnationalism
Research has emphasised the importance of far‐right transnationalism, in terms of both ideology and practice. Yet, the literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of how far‐right actors themselves reflect their transnational practices (or lack thereof), such as party‐level exchange, joint protest events, or online communication. Drawing on original interview data from Germany and Norway, our research unveils that while far‐right ‘nationalists’ gen…
Strategic interaction sequences
An interactive approach to social movements highlights time dynamics in ways more correlational approaches do not, in that interaction and outcomes unfold in sequences as players react to one another. Some aspects of these engagements are shaped by institutional schedules, while others leave discretion to the players. Some institutional schedules, meanwhile, may be reshaped by strategic interactions. By examining the implicit trade-offs and expli…
New Technologies as a Neglected Social Movement Outcome
Recently, scholars have focused on a growing number of social movement consequences. However, one important type of intended outcome has been neglected: the development of new technologies. Connecting to key insights from Science and Technology Studies, the aim of this article is to contribute to the literature on the effects of activism in two specific ways. First, I present and discuss four causal mechanisms that show how activists trigger the …
The people against the sun? ideology and strategy in far-right parties' climate obstruction of solar energy
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
While the politics of immigration in destination countries has been a prominent topic of research in comparative political science in Europe, the same does not apply to emigration and to the perspective of peripherical EU countries. This is true even though the flows of people moving from east to west and from south to north pose potentially significant challenges to ‘sending countries’ in Europe. This article sets up a research agenda aimed at c…
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets
For many left-wing and liberal social movement activists, support for ‘Europe’ and opposition to a ‘nationalist’ turn has become a key motivation for their activism. Paradoxically, however, their opponents at the other end of the political spectrum, far-right activists, also positively identify as European. This article analyses one of the key developments in the contemporary European protest arena, i.e. the dominance of European identities, even…
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right Pegida during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyzes how a preexisting far-right social movement organization responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) in Germany. We show that PEGIDA quickly adapted its previous immigration-related collective action frame, now predominantly portraying itself as a defender of democracy, constitutionality, and civil rights, while accusing the German gove…
The Electoral Success of the Radical Left
Recently, scholars have shown a growing interest in radical left parties (RLPs). In terms of electoral success, the rise of the KPÖ Graz, the Communist Party in Austria’s second biggest city, represents perhaps the most counterintuitive case in Western Europe. Adding to previous studies, the rise of the KPÖ Graz contradicts many of the claims made and patterns found about the conditions for the electoral success of RLPs. While the national KPÖ wa…
German Politics in Times of Crises
Fifty Years after Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
This article analyses the impact of the animal rights movement fifty years after the publication of Peter Singer's landmark book Animal Liberation in 1975. Examining the gains and losses of this vibrant social movement, the article takes a broad international perspective and makes the following key arguments: First, despite comprehensive animal welfare policies, state regulation has so far remained rather ineffective in reducing animal suffering,…
Anti-Islamic Pegida Beyond Germany
The rise of anti-Islamic PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes) is one of the latest sustained episodes of radical right mobilisation in Western Europe outside the electoral arena. This study provides a first comparative analysis of PEGIDA beyond Germany and its core region of Saxony. Combining protest event analysis with online data and network analysis, we identify why PEGIDA mustered low-scale support in some co…
The consequences of social movements
After almost two decades, The Consequences of Social Movements constitutes Marco Giugni’s third edited volume dedicated to this crucial research area in the field of social movement studies. Giugni
The Electoral Success of the Radical Left
Recently, scholars have shown a growing interest in radical left parties (RLPs). In terms of electoral success, the rise of the KPÖ Graz, the Communist Party in Austria’s second biggest city, represents perhaps the most counterintuitive case in Western Europe. Adding to previous studies, the rise of the KPÖ Graz contradicts many of the claims made and patterns found about the conditions for the electoral success of RLPs. While the national KPÖ wa…
New Technologies as a Neglected Social Movement Outcome
Recently, scholars have focused on a growing number of social movement consequences. However, one important type of intended outcome has been neglected: the development of new technologies. Connecting to key insights from Science and Technology Studies, the aim of this article is to contribute to the literature on the effects of activism in two specific ways. First, I present and discuss four causal mechanisms that show how activists trigger the …
Neue Wahrheiten von rechts außen? Alternative Nachrichten und der „Rechtspopulismus“ in Deutschland
Politische Akteur*innen sind lebhafte Produzent*innen von medialen Produkten und stellen sie dabei oft als Alternative zu etablierten traditionellen Medien dar. Seit geraumer Zeit stehen dabei nicht mehr linke Projekte, sondern „alternative Nachrichten“ von rechts außen im Zentrum der Debatte. Dieser Artikel analysiert mit PI News eine der populärsten dieser Plattformen in Deutschland. Untersucht wird die Entwicklung ihrer Popularität und ihre Kl…
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The Strength of Far‐Right AfD in Eastern Germany
This article sheds light on one of the key developments in recent German politics and relates it to the broader debate on the electoral success of the far right. The rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany) is also a story about Germany’s internal political divide three decades after reunification, as the party has roughly twice as much support in the east than in the west. The article analyses the country’s east‐wes…
The European Citizens’ Initiative
Research on the European Citizens’ Initiative has neglected the crucial role of social movements. This article contributes to the study of mobilization strategies and campaign consequences through two novel arguments: First, in explaining successful mobilization, I argue that the European Citizens’ Initiative as a political opportunity structure incentivizes the organization of nationally focused campaigns centred in at least one large, that is, …
Strategic interaction sequences
An interactive approach to social movements highlights time dynamics in ways more correlational approaches do not, in that interaction and outcomes unfold in sequences as players react to one another. Some aspects of these engagements are shaped by institutional schedules, while others leave discretion to the players. Some institutional schedules, meanwhile, may be reshaped by strategic interactions. By examining the implicit trade-offs and expli…
No Strong Leaders Needed? AfD Party Organisation Between Collective Leadership, Internal Democracy, and “Movement-Party” Strategy
This article analyses the formal and lived organisation of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany). We show that the party is exceptional among what is usually understood as the populist radical right (PRR) party family, at least from an organisational perspective: The AfD sharply contradicts the “standard model” of PRR party organisation, which emphasises “charismatic” leadership and the centralisation of power as key feat…
Die AfD als neue Volkspartei des Ostens?
Die AfD ist in Teilen Ostdeutschlands die stimmenstärkste Partei. Daher untersucht dieser Beitrag wesentliche Dimensionen der AfD als »ostdeutsches Phänomen«: (1) Um die parteiinternen Konflikte der AfD zu verstehen, sind die Kategorien »Ost« und »West« zwar relevant - nichtsdestotrotz gibt es wesentliche Konfliktlinien, die dazu quer verlaufen. (2) Hilfreicher ist die Ost-West-Dichotomie beim Verständnis der elektoralen Stärke der AfD. Die inner…
Die AfD als neue Volkspartei des Ostens?
AfD gegen die Grünen? Rechtspopulismus und klimapolitische Polarisierung in Deutschland
Der politische Konflikt um den Klimawandel bestimmt die deutsche Politik. Dieser Artikel untersucht die oftmals vernachlässigte Rolle der Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in dieser Auseinandersetzung und zeigt, dass rechtspopulistische Parteien keine „single-issue“-Parteien sind. Dabei wird sowohl die Angebots- als auch die Nachfrageseite beleuchtet. Der Artikel fokussiert zunächst auf das klimapolitische Angebot der AfD und diskutiert, wie sie,…
Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets
For many left-wing and liberal social movement activists, support for ‘Europe’ and opposition to a ‘nationalist’ turn has become a key motivation for their activism. Paradoxically, however, their opponents at the other end of the political spectrum, far-right activists, also positively identify as European. This article analyses one of the key developments in the contemporary European protest arena, i.e. the dominance of European identities, even…
Global warming and polarization. Wind turbines and the electoral success of the greens and the populist radical right
The increased salience of environmental concerns, first and foremost global warming, is one of the key developments of contemporary Western European politics. Still, the effects of global warming issues on electoral outcomes, party competition and polarization remain poorly understood. Our article shows how the construction of wind turbines fuels conflict between its key proponents and opponents, Green and populist radical right parties. Contenti…
Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics
Was Sie schon immer über Bewegungstheorie wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht zu fragen wagten
Article Was Sie schon immer über Bewegungstheorie wissen wollten, aber bisher nicht zu fragen wagten was published on October 1, 2023 in the journal Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen (volume 36, issue 3)
The Politics of Emigration in Europe
While the politics of immigration in destination countries has been a prominent topic of research in comparative political science in Europe, the same does not apply to emigration and to the perspective of peripherical EU countries. This is true even though the flows of people moving from east to west and from south to north pose potentially significant challenges to ‘sending countries’ in Europe. This article sets up a research agenda aimed at c…
A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform
The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field of democracy reform, even though populist radical right parties strongly criticize how democratic systems currently function. In an exploratory and qualitative study of four cases, we analyze the adaptation (or lack thereof) of ma…
How Political Parties Respond to Pariah Street Protest
How do political parties respond to street protest by political outsiders widely considered to be ‘pariahs’ (i.e. radical or extremist actors)? Bridging the literature on responses to ‘populist’ radical right parties with insights from social movement studies, we propose a theoretical model that conceptualises potential party responses to pariah protest. Innovatively, our typology distinguishes between a set of formal and substantive responses to…
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough
This paper studies party-movement interactions in Germany, focusing on Die Linke and the AfD, the two most recent additions to Germany’s multi-party system. The electoral rise of both challenger parties went along with mass protests, opposition to Hartz IV in the mid-2000s and anti-Islamic PEGIDA mobilisation in the mid-2010s. We shift the emphasis from how social movements turn into political parties, including significant organisational and per…
New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics
In this Special Issue, we show that the study of civil society, social movements, and protest is central for assessing the current state of German politics. First, moving beyond political parties and electoral politics delivers crucial insights into the ideological, affective, and organisational structuring of emerging polarisation and cleavages. Second, the transformations in electoral politics are closely interrelated with dynamics in civil soc…
Fifty Years after Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
This article analyses the impact of the animal rights movement fifty years after the publication of Peter Singer's landmark book Animal Liberation in 1975. Examining the gains and losses of this vibrant social movement, the article takes a broad international perspective and makes the following key arguments: First, despite comprehensive animal welfare policies, state regulation has so far remained rather ineffective in reducing animal suffering,…
Reaching out beyond the national border? How far‐right actors in Germany and Norway evaluate transnationalism
Research has emphasised the importance of far‐right transnationalism, in terms of both ideology and practice. Yet, the literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of how far‐right actors themselves reflect their transnational practices (or lack thereof), such as party‐level exchange, joint protest events, or online communication. Drawing on original interview data from Germany and Norway, our research unveils that while far‐right ‘nationalists’ gen…
Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right Pegida during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article analyzes how a preexisting far-right social movement organization responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the case of the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) in Germany. We show that PEGIDA quickly adapted its previous immigration-related collective action frame, now predominantly portraying itself as a defender of democracy, constitutionality, and civil rights, while accusing the German gove…
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