The AfD and the End of Containment in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Art (0000-0002-9594-6039, Tufts University [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 76-86 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Politics & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-0300 • E-ISSN: 1558-5441 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/gps.2018.360205 |
| OpenAlex | W2810824648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) made history by winning 12.6 percent of the vote and capturing ninety-four seats in the Bundestag in the federal elections of 2017. This article asks whether the AfD's rise threatens to undermine the strategy of containment that contributed to the demise of previous incarnations of the radical right. It argues that the current strength of the AfD is a direct result of Angela Merkel's decisions to rescue the Eurozone and to welcome over one million refugees since the fall of 2015. While the AfD is still likely to suffer a collapse similar to other radical right parties, its consolidation or strengthening would have major consequences for Germany and for Europe
Cold war · Demise · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Radical right · West germany · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Democracy and Demography
Dog-whistle politics in far-right discourse
The ‘Will of the People’
Societalized Politics in the German Civil Sphere
Inside, Outside, Upside Down
Cross-Border Structures and Orientations of Migrant Organizations in Germany
The 2015 Refugee Crisis and Institutional Trust in European Countries
How Rural is Rural Populism? On the Spatial Understanding of Rurality for Analyses of Right-wing Populist Election Success in Germany
Transforming the centre right in Germany and the United Kingdom
Unpacking action repertoire of right-wing political parties
The Myth of Global Populism
The pretence of the cordon sanitaire
Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change
Increasing toleration for the intolerant? “Adapted militancy” and German responses to Alternative für Deutschland
Ontological Nuisance in Elite Discourse
Demands as the black box of discourse theory
Government Policies, New Voter Coalitions, and the Emergence of Ethnic Dimension in Party Systems
Social Stigma and Support for the Populist Radical Right
Fighting for a Lost Cause? Availability of Populist Radical Right Voters for Established Parties. The Case of Germany
Stability of National‐Identity Content
Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany
How Democracy Works within a Populist Party
Back to the Future? The Electoral Breakthrough of Far-Right Parties
The AfD within the AfD
The Alternative for Germany's Foreign Policy
Protest and Electoral Breakthrough
Discursive Shifts in the German Right-Wing Newspaper Junge Freiheit 1997–2019
Climate-Soviets,’ ‘Alarmism,’ and ‘Eco-Dictatorship
The conditional effects of the refugee crisis on immigration attitudes and nationalism
Spiritualizing reason, rationalizing spirit
Activating the socialist past for a nativist future
How the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and their voters veered to the radical right, 2013-2017
Migration as a building bloc of middle-class nation-building? The growing rift between Germany's centre-right and right-wing parties
Exposition to xenophobic content and support for right-wing populism
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |