Arbeitspapier
Accommodation of Right-Wing Populist Rhetoric: Evidence From Parliamentary Speeches in Germany
We provide novel evidence on how right-wing (populist) rhetoric spreads. Using several thousand speeches from the German parliament, we show that exposure to politicians from the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) leads mainstream politicians to adopt a more distinctively right-wing populist language. We measure similarity to right-wing populist rhetoric via cosine similarity to both parliamentary speeches by the AfD and extremist speeches at far-right rallies, as well as using a populist dictionary method. To induce individual-level variation in exposure to AfD politicians, we exploit a quasi-exogenous allocation rule for committee members in the German parliament. Comparing a politician with the highest to one with the lowest relative AfD exposure increases the cosine similarity to right-wing populist speech by 0.1 of a standard deviation. Our results seem specific to right-wing populism and suggest strategic motives related to local electoral competition behind rhetorical changes among individual politicians.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 435
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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right-wing populism
AfD
Germany
NLP
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Esguerra, Emilio
Hagemeister, Felix
Heid, Julian
Leffler, Tim
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Veröffentlichung
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
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München und Berlin
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Esguerra, Emilio
- Hagemeister, Felix
- Heid, Julian
- Leffler, Tim
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition
Entstanden
- 2023
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