Radical Right Populism in Germany

<p>This book provides a comprehensive analysis of radical right populism in Germany. It gives an overview of historical developments of the phenomenon and its current appearance. It examines three of the main far-right organizations in Germany: the radical right populist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) Pegida (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamification of the Occident) and the Identitarian Movement.</p><p>The book investigates the positions of these groups as expressed in programmes publications and statements of party leaders and movement activists. It explores their history ideologies strategies and their main activists and representatives as well as the overlap between the groups. The ideological positions examined include populism nativism authoritarianism volkish nationalism ethnopluralism xenophobia Islamophobia antisemitism antifeminism and Euroscepticism. The analysis shows that these ideological features are sometimes strategically interlinked for effect and used to justify specific political demands such as the stronger regulation of immigration and the exclusion of Muslims.</p><p>This much-needed volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers of German politics populism social movements party politics and right-wing extremism.</p>