In the early 21st century, far-right parties have increasingly mobilized around environmental protection, climate action, and animal welfare. Yet scholarship has paid only limited attention to far-...

This article provides a novel analysis of drivers of the heterogeneity in positions of European far-right parties on Russia. Concentrating on roll-call votes in...

How and why does regime type impact far-right mobilization? Most of our knowledge about the far right comes from studies of Western democracies, leaving far-right mobilization in hybrid regimes und...

Populist radical right parties (PRRP) have experienced notable electoral success across Europe in recent decades. While their preferences regarding public social policy have been widely studied, thei...

Research has emphasized both the existence of left-wing authoritarian attitudes among the European electorate and a lack of political supply. In Germany, this d...

This 2020 article in PQ by Manes Weisskircher reviews the research on why the far right is strong in eastern Germany. The answer is multi-faceted. There is the reality of economic decline, particularly for those of working age since the welfare state gives people past retirement age an income on which they can live easily -worth noting that in the Saxony-Anhalt results yesterday, the older voter cohorts, past retirement age, were more likely to vote CDU than AfD, despite the CDU's terrible showing in the region.

This Special Issue examines the persistence of AfD's electoral success and the party's strong regional entrenchment in Eastern Germany more than a decade after its foundation. Bringing together ten...

This article sheds light on one of the key developments in recent German politics and relates it to the broader debate on the electoral success of the far right. The rise of the Alternative für Deuts...

The far right is gaining increasing traction among young voters – an age group that constitutes the future electorate. Yet, the underlying drivers of this trend remain insufficiently explored. This...

Recently, the socio-economic agenda of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) has attracted growing scholarly interest, yet many studies focus specifically on positions on welfare policies. It is oft...

Abstract Objective This study examines polarization over gender equality in Europe, an issue that has received limited attention in the polarization literature despite growing politicization and oppos...

An Encyclopedia of Polarization

Die Regierung zerlegt den Sozialstaat – doch massiver Widerstand regt sich kaum. Warum? Protestforscher Manès Weisskircher zählt dafür gleich mehrere Gründe auf.

Politologe Debus sieht Merz trotz des Personalchaos "gefestigt". Es komme nun darauf an, wie schnell man aus Fehlern lerne, sagt er bei ZDFheute live.

In den 1970er-Jahren hat sich die bis dahin US-amerikanisch geprägte Wahlforschung internationalisiert. Seit den 1990er-Jahren ist der Mainstream der Wahlforschung vergleichend ausgerichtet, da sich die Wirkung institutioneller und anderer kontextueller...