04505nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-50890-5 DE-He213 20251030111449.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240228s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031508905 978-3-031-50890-5 10.1007/978-3-031-50890-5 doi JN1-9692.2 JP bicssc 1D bicssc POL058000 bisacsh JP 1D thema Hansen, Michael A. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 71954 Political Entrepreneurship in the Age of Dealignment [electronic resource] : The Populist Far-Right Alternative for Germany / by Michael A. Hansen, Jonathan Olsen. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 209 p. 24 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Perspectives in German Political Studies, 2947-6755 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Far Right Failure: Parties of the Far Right in Germany, 1945-2023 -- Chapter 3: A Theory of Populist Far Right Issue Entrepreneurship in an Age of Dealignment -- Chapter 4: Emergence: The AfD and the European Debt Crisis in in the 2013 Federal Election -- Chapter 5: Breakthrough: The Refugee Crisis, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and the Success of the AfD in the 2017 Federal Election -- Chapter 6: Sustainment: The AfD and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the 2021 Federal Election -- Chapter 7: Strategies for Sustaining Success: Ideological Positioning and Fashioning a Party Brand -- Chapter 8: Sustaining Success Beyond the Core: Campaign Posters and the Professionalization of the AfD -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Issue Entrepreneurship and the Future of the AfD. This book traces the rise of the far right AfD from its inception in 2013 to its re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, emphasizing the party’s nature as a “populist issue entrepreneur” and covering the three major crises that have shaken European party politics – the Eurozone crisis, the so-called refugee crisis, and the COVID pandemic. Currently, books on the topic of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are largely limited to historical treatments and surface level analyses of the political party. This volume has the virtue of being both empirically rigorous as well as conceptually nuanced: it seeks to understand the party’s political trajectory and attraction to supporters by analyzing its voters using advanced quantitative methodologies, as well as interpreting the party’s communication strategies through mixed empirical methods. It embeds this account within a theoretically well-grounded argument. The argument emphasizes three important explanatory conditions – a favorable political opportunity structure, issue entrepreneurship, and the party’s stages of political development. Michael A. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He previously held a Postdoctoral position at Lund University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Parkside. Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Woman's University, USA. Europe Politics and government. 69875 Communication in politics. 65259 Elections. 70850 European Politics. 69876 Political Communication. 67745 Electoral Politics. 70851 Olsen, Jonathan. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 30542 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031508899 Printed edition: 9783031508912 Printed edition: 9783031508929 New Perspectives in German Political Studies, 2947-6755 71955 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50890-5 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 57953 57953