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FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM: AFD AND FDI IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Çağla Mavruk(NEVŞEHİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0003-1079-8442
Şahin Kurşuncu(NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY)0009-0006-4792-136X
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While the AfD’s rise in Germany can be understood as a crisis-driven cultural backlash, the FdI’s rise in Italy can be understood more in terms of institutional and cultural continuity.

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Amaç & Hipotez:The rise of the radical right in Europe has accelerated due to significant events such as September 11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the 2015 refugee crisis, bringing security and identity-focused policies to the forefront.
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Temel Bulgular & Veri:Anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a common axis that increases these parties’ capacity for action; in some countries, this rise has been fueled by cultural threat perceptions triggered by crises, while in others it has been fueled by the influence of historical and institutional legacies.
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Sonuç & Katkı:While the AfD’s rise in Germany can be understood as a crisis-driven cultural backlash, the FdI’s rise in Italy can be understood more in terms of institutional and cultural continuity.
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⚙️Değişkenler:Radical Right · Anti-immigrant Discourse · Alternative for Germany (AfD)

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The rise of the radical right in Europe has accelerated due to significant events such as September 11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the 2015 refugee crisis, bringing security and identity-focused policies to the forefront. Anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a common axis that increases these parties’ capacity for action; in some countries, this rise has been fueled by cultural threat perceptions triggered by crises, while in others it has been fueled by the influence of historical and institutional legacies. This article seeks to make a comparative analysis of the rise of the radical right in Germany and Italy, focusing on the central role of anti-immigration discourse. By using Cas Mudde’s four-wave framework, which helps to explain this transformation through both historical continuity and crisis-driven transformations, this analysis demonstrates that both the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) have been strongly influenced by anti-immigration rhetoric. While the AfD’s rise in Germany can be understood as a crisis-driven cultural backlash, the FdI’s rise in Italy can be understood more in terms of institutional and cultural continuity.

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Mavruk, Ç., Kurşuncu, Ş. (2026). FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM: AFD AND FDI IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. Anadolu Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Volume: 27 Issue: 1. https://doi.org/10.53443/anadoluibfd.1792240

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