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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2020.380102

J. Mushaben

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The Alternative for Germany from Breakthrough toward Consolidation? 德国从突破走向巩固的选择?

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2020.380103

E. Frankland

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This Was the One for Me 这是我的唯一

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2020.380106

Christina Xydias

{"title":"This Was the One for Me","authors":"Christina Xydias","doi":"10.3167/gps.2020.380106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/gps.2020.380106","url":null,"abstract":"Next to the Alternative for Germany (AfD)’s nationalism and anti-immigrant attitudes, natalism and support for traditional gender roles are key components of the party’s far right categorization. Women are not absent from parties like the AfD, though they support them at lower rates than men and at lower rates than they support other parties. In light of women’s lower presence in far-right parties, how do women officeholders in the AfD explain their party affiliation, and how do their explanations differ from men’s? An answer is discernible at the nexus between AfD officeholders’ publicly available political backgrounds and the accounts that they offer for joining the party, termed “origin stories.” Empirically, this article uses an original dataset of political biographical details for all the AfD’s state and federal legislators elected between 2013 and late 2019. This dataset shows that AfD women at the state level are less likely than their men counterparts to have been affiliated with a political party, and they are less likely to have been politically active, prior to their participation in the AfD. Regardless of the facts of their backgrounds, however, women more than men explain their support of the AfD as a choice to enter into politics, and men more than women explain their support of the AfD as a choice to leave another party. The article argues that these gendered origin stories can be contextualized within the party’s masculinist, natalist, and nationalist values.","PeriodicalId":44521,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY","volume":"38 1","pages":"105-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47599416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Green Politics, Expertise, and Democratic Discourse in the Two Germanies, 1989–2019 1989-2019年两个德国的绿色政治、专业知识和民主话语

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370402

C. Hager

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“This Other Germany, the Dark One” “另一个德国，黑暗的德国”

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370405

Esther Adaire

引用次数: 3

German Hegemony? The Federal Republic of Germany in Post Cold War European Affairs 德国霸权?冷战后欧洲事务中的德意志联邦共和国

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370408

Luke B. Wood

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Colonial Pasts in Germany's Present 德国现在的殖民历史

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370406

Jonathan Bach

引用次数: 5

Two Paradigmatic Views on Right-Wing Populism in East Germany 东德右翼民粹主义的两种范式

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370404

Jonas Rädel

引用次数: 2

A Silver Age? The German Economy since Reunification 白银时代?统一后的德国经济

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370407

Stephen J. Silvia

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The Left Party Thirty Years After Unification 统一三十年后的左翼党

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GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.3167/gps.2019.370403

J. Olsen

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