Strategic Uncoupling Between Competence and Polarization: Niche Party Framing and Electoral Performance in Germany

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Brief Overview

Explaining Germany’s Greens and radical-right/left electoral divergence via “Strategic Uncoupling”: competence on consensus, polarization on contentious issues, tested with NLP and regression.

Author

• Xiaoxin He, University of Chicago