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[email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. The Alternative for Germany’s radicalization in historical-comparative perspective Keywords Alternative for Germany (AfD), right-wing populism, National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), Greens, Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), Left aP rty Comments Originally published on November 8, 2017 in Volume 25, Issue 2 of Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. Publisher's link: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdeb20/25/2 DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2017.1399512 This article is available at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/govfacpub/9 The Alternative for Germany’s radicalization in historical-comparative perspective David F. Patton Connecticut College
[email protected] Abstract: This article chronicles the AfD’s rightward repositioning and compares it with the programmatic development of three postwar German parties on the ideological wings.