@article{2016:niedermayer:die_whle,
title = {Die Wählerschaft der AfD: Wer ist sie, woher kommt sie und wie weit rechts steht sie?},
year = {2016},
note = {Due to the great successes of the AfD in the three state elections of
March 2016 there is an intensified discussion about the
characteristics of the AfD’s electorate at the national level. Who
votes for the AfD? Are there any social groups with an above-average
AfD affinity and what do we know about the socio-structural
composition of the electorate? Does the AfD take away voters from all
the other parties and which party suffers most? What can be said about
the ideological positions of AfD voters, especially: how far-right are
they? These questions are answered using mostly not yet released data
from national representative Infratest dimap surveys. It is shown that
although blue-collar workers have an above-average affinity to the
party, AfD is not the party of the ordinary people. The AfD draws
voters from all the other parties but the shares vary. The ideological
position of its voters is more to the right than the population as a
whole but the majority does not show an extreme right-wing belief
system.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {267--285},
author = {Niedermayer, Oskar and Hofrichter, Jürgen},
volume = {47},
number = {2}
}