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  • The internet is regularly blamed to play a major role in the surge of populist radical right parties such as the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). While previous studies have already established a generally positive association between internet use and a higher propensity to vote for the AfD, we know little about the conditionalities of this effect. Based on theories about cognitive dissonance, I argue that the high choice environment of the internet offers populist radical right actors a tool to efficiently activate voters with a nativist political predisposition. Using data from the German Longitudinal Election Study in 2016/17, I find that using the internet for political information is associated with a substantively higher propensity to vote for the AfD only among individuals who already had a political predisposition that was consistend with the party’s political agenda. The results highlight the important role of widespread far-right worldviews in the electorate for the rise of a populist radical right party in Germany. The internet mainly worked as an amplifier as it helped the AfD to activate its potential electorate. (xsd:string)
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  • 13. Fassung, Dezember 2023 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.1007/978-3-658-40884-8_3 ()
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  • Activating the Right Electorate: Internet Use, Nativism, and Voting for the AfD (xsd:string)
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  • Deutschland und Europa im Umbruch: Einstellungen, Verhalten und Forschungsperspektiven im Kontext der Bundestagswahl 2017 und der Europawahl 2019 (xsd:string)
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  • In Deutschland und Europa im Umbruch: Einstellungen, Verhalten und Forschungsperspektiven im Kontext der Bundestagswahl 2017 und der Europawahl 2019, edited by Ackermann, Kathrin and Giebler, Heiko and Elff, Martin, 85-106, Springer Fachmedien, 2023 (xsd:string)
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