A Tale of Two Electorates?: The 2021 Federal Election and the AfD Voter in East and West.
Although the AfD is not, strictly speaking, an "eastern" party, its distinct electoral results in the two halves of Germany—underscored once again in the 2021 federal election—are something of a puzzle. In order to explain how and why the AfD performs better in eastern Germany than in western German...
| Published in: | German Politics & Society Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 110 - 134 |
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Berghahn Books
Summer2022
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