The End of the Populist Spectre: Are European Liberal Democracies More Resilient than Given Credit For? Explaining the Decline in Voters’ Support for Populist Radical Parties in the 2021 German Election

• In Event: Populism, Extremism, and Its Political Impacts in Europe

Brief Overview

Using NLP techniques and the uncovered set, we analyse three recent German elections, trace the ‘tit for tat’ among mainstream and populist parties, vote patterns, policy outcomes and implications for the resilience of European liberal democracies

Authors

• Karen Umansky, University of Potsdam

• Itai Sened, Tel Aviv University

• Ulrich Kohler, University of Potsdam