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- Title
THE LEFT PARTY AND THE AFD: Populist Competitors in Eastern Germany.
- Authors
Olsen, Jonathan
- Abstract
In the 2017 German Federal Election. The Left Party (Die Linke, or LP) saw its vote share in eastern Germany seriously erode. The main culprit behind the LP's losses was the Alternative for Germany (AfD): 430,000 voters who cast their ballots for the LP in 2013 voted for the AfD in 2017. Why was this the case? This article suggests that the AfD in 2017 was able to attract protest voters, largely in eastern Germany, dissatisfied with the state of democracy and the political establishment in Germany who once voted for the LP. The LP and AfD have become eastern German populist competitors.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ELECTIONS; POLITICAL parties; VOTERS; POLITICAL competition; EAST German politics &; government
- Publication
German Politics & Society, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
1045-0300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/gps.2018.360104