A societal shift to the right or the political mobilisation of a shrinking minority
Explaining rise and radicalisation of the AfD in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21783448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Floris Biskamp (0000-0002-8809-398X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0600 • E-ISSN: 1740-0619 |
| Publisher | Inderscience Publishers (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1504/ijpp.2023.10060609 |
| OpenAlex | W4388862116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper discusses whether the swift rise and radicalisation of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the first electorally successful far-right party in Germany in decades was caused by a general societal shift to the right. It first operationalises the concept of a shift towards the (far) right with references to Norberto Bobbio and Cas Mudde. Then it discusses whether such a shift has taken place on four levels: public policy, political behaviour, individual attitudes, and public discourse. The picture is heterogeneous but offers no compelling evidence for a societal shift to the right. As an alternative explanation, the paper argues that the rise and radicalisation of the AfD should rather be understood as the formation of a far-right project in reaction to an ambivalent process of liberalisation - a process of liberalisation that can itself be endangered by this far-right formation
Development economics · Economics · European union · Extreme right · Far right · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · German legal, social, and political studies · Law · Minority Rights and Languages · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |