Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by … Germany. We use a new data set on the level of German counties (Kreise) that is analyzed econometrically by a FGLS random …

state of Berlin and the federal level in Germany. State voting intentions for the state and for the federal parliament are … the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

recently entered all state parliaments as well as the federal parliament in Germany. Although professed AfD voters faced a … German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election. The classic theory on the political … jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election suggests that AfD vote shares are … higher in districts with fewer foreign inhabitants. We exploit administrative data on election results and district …

Drawing on panel data from six elections between 1998 and 2017 in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of immigration … – described by Germany’s interior minister as the "mother of all political problems" – on electoral support for the far right and … seekers, who are administratively allocated across Germany according to pre-defined quotas. We find that the presence of …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … Germany and the individual disposition to report an AfD preference. Exploiting quasi-random variation in survey interviews … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …