@article{spies_why_2023,
	title = {Why do immigrants support an anti-immigrant party? {Russian}-{Germans} and the {Alternative} for {Germany}},
	volume = {46},
	issn = {0140-2382, 1743-9655},
	shorttitle = {Why do immigrants support an anti-immigrant party?},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2022.2047544},
	doi = {10.1080/01402382.2022.2047544},
	abstract = {By reaching a vote share of 12.6 percent in the 2017 federal election, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) ended Germany’s rare status as a Western European polity lacking a significant Populist Radical Right Party (PRRP). Some of this support comes from a group not usually expected to vote for PRRPs: immigrant-origin voters. Recent survey data shows high levels of support for the AfD especially within the group of Russian-Germans – immigrants from the former Soviet Union and its successor states. What motivates these immigrant-origin voters to support an anti-immigrant party? This article argues that support for the AfD – besides immigration-related preferences – can be best explained by their levels of assimilation or incorporation for different domains regarding the mainstream German society. Especially low levels of economic and social integration, and in particular a strong ethnic identity, relate positively to favouring the German radical right.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2025-10-07},
	journal = {West European Politics},
	author = {Spies, Dennis Christopher and Mayer, Sabrina Jasmin and Elis, Jonas and Goerres, Achim},
	month = feb,
	year = {2023},
	note = {short-doi: 10/grhw6s},
	pages = {275--299},
}

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