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The Populist Radical Right as Memory Entrepreneur? The Prominence, Sentiment, and Interpretations of History in the German Parliament
Matthias Dilling,
Félix Krawatzek 
British Journal of Political Science, Pages: 1 - 22
Swansea University Author: Matthias Dilling
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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s0007123424000346
Abstract
Populist radical right (PRR) parties’ attacks against prevailing historical interpretations have received much public attention because they question the foundations of countries’ political orders. Yet, how prominent are such attacks, and what characterizes their sentiment and content? This article...
| Published in: | British Journal of Political Science |
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| ISSN: | 0007-1234 1469-2112 |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2024
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67406 |
| Abstract: |
Populist radical right (PRR) parties’ attacks against prevailing historical interpretations have received much public attention because they question the foundations of countries’ political orders. Yet, how prominent are such attacks, and what characterizes their sentiment and content? This article proposes an integrated mixed-methods approach to investigate the prominence, sentiment, and interpretations of history in PRR politicians’ parliamentary speeches. Studying the case of Germany, we conduct a quantitative analysis of national parliamentary speeches (2017—2021), combined with a qualitative analysis of all speeches made by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2017—2018. The AfD does not use historical markers more prominently but is distinctly less negative when speaking about history compared to its general political language. The collocation and qualitative analyses reveal the nuanced ways in which the AfD affirms and disavows various mnemonic traditions, underlining the PRR’s complex engagement with established norms. |
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| Keywords: |
populist radical right; memory politics; sentiment; text analysis; Germany |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
Swansea University |
| Start Page: |
1 |
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22 |