LEADER 04237nam 22006135 450 001 9910842295903321 005 20250808083555.0 010 $a9783031508905 010 $a3031508904 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-50890-5 035 $a(CKB)30597474100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31201112 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31201112 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-50890-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930597474100041 100 $a20240228d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical Entrepreneurship in the Age of Dealignment $eThe Populist Far-Right Alternative for Germany /$fby Michael A. Hansen, Jonathan Olsen 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 225 1 $aNew Perspectives in German Political Studies,$x2947-6755 311 08$a9783031508899 311 08$a3031508890 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis book traces the rise of the far right AfD from its inception in 2013 to its re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, emphasizing the party?s nature as a ?populist issue entrepreneur? and covering the three major crises that have shaken European party politics ? the Eurozone crisis, the so-called refugee crisis, and the COVID pandemic. Currently, books on the topic of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are largely limited to historical treatments and surface level analyses of the political party. This volume has the virtue of being both empirically rigorous as well as conceptually nuanced: it seeks to understand the party?s political trajectory and attraction to supporters by analyzing its voters using advanced quantitative methodologies, as well as interpreting the party?s communication strategies through mixed empirical methods. It embeds this account within a theoretically well-grounded argument. The argument emphasizes three important explanatory conditions ? a favorable political opportunity structure, issue entrepreneurship, and the party?s stages of political development. Michael A. Hansen is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He previously held a Postdoctoral position at Lund University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin Parkside. Jonathan Olsen is Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Historical Studies at Texas Woman's University, USA. 410 0$aNew Perspectives in German Political Studies,$x2947-6755 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aCommunication in politics 606 $aElections 606 $aEuropean Politics 606 $aPolitical Communication 606 $aElectoral Politics 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aCommunication in politics. 615 0$aElections. 615 14$aEuropean Politics. 615 24$aPolitical Communication. 615 24$aElectoral Politics. 676 $a324.243009 700 $aHansen$b Michael A.$081899 702 $aOlsen$b Jonathan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910842295903321 996 $aPolitical Entrepreneurship in the Age of Dealignment$94146998 997 $aUNINA