Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵 6469206
Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025How and under what conditions do far-right actors influence the communication of mainstream parties? We take a discourse perspective on far-right mainstreaming and present a large-scale empirical assessment of far-right agenda setting in public debates since the 1990s in Germany. 1131
Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The automated text analysis of 520,408 articles in 6 newspapers shows that mainstream parties have contributed to the discursive mainstreaming of the far right. We use novel data of semi-automatically collected lists of far-right actors and parties and employ topic models and time series analysis. 1162
