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It's not the economy, stupid! Explaining the electoral success of the German right-wing populist AfD

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2017
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Schwander, H., & Manow, P. (2017). It’s not the economy, stupid! Explaining the electoral success of the German right-wing populist AfD (No. 94; CIS Working Paper). https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/cis-dam/CIS_DAM_2017/WP94_A4_v3.pdf

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Right-wing populism is on the rise. Everywhere? Until recently, the resilience of the German party system to such a party has been an exception to this general trend. The establishment of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the wake of the Eurozone crisis put an end to this German exceptionalism. This paper tests the ‘losers of modernization’-thesis, one of the most dominant explanations for right-wing populist voting, for the case of the AfD. Based on district level data from the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban

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  • Schwander, Hanna
  • Manow, Philip

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CIS Working Paper

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Deutschland, Europawahl, Bundestagswahl, Rechtspopulismus, Wahlverhalten, Politische Kultur, Alternative für Deutschland, Geschichte 2013-2014

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English

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2017-04

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2017-12-12

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55

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1662-7504

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Schwander, H., & Manow, P. (2017). It’s not the economy, stupid! Explaining the electoral success of the German right-wing populist AfD (No. 94; CIS Working Paper). https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/cis-dam/CIS_DAM_2017/WP94_A4_v3.pdf

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