ArticleFrontiers in sociology2026
How to explain the German East-West divide in support of a populist radical right party (AfD): mapping socioeconomic, psychological, and cultural explanatory factors from a demand-side, voter-level perspective.
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Introduction: Although the success of the Methods: Using representative survey data from late 2024 ( Results: AfD vote intention was predicted by almost all examined socioeconomic, psychological and cultural variables. Moreover, East Germans reported lower income and stronger relative deprivation, distrust of state institutions, political conspiracy mentality, use of alternative political media, populist/nativist attitudes, national identification, and importance of being German than West Germans. Yet the East-West gap in AfD vote intention was mainly accounted for by political distrust, alternative political media use, and populist/nativist attitudes, whereas socioeconomic and psychological factors did not explain the gap from a cross-sectional perspective. Discussion: This calls for further work on causally linking these frameworks to clarify demand-side mechanisms behind voting for populist radical right parties and the German East-West gap thereof.
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