"Stürmt mit uns die Rathäuser": Eine skalensensible Argumentationsanalyse des sächsischen Kommunalwahlkampfes der radikal rechten Kleinstpartei Freie Sachsen im Jahr 2024

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Abstract

This article deals with the Saxon municipal election campaign of the far-right party Freie Sachsen in 2024, using a scalar-informed perspective and the discourse-analytical method of argumentation analysis to show how the party moderates the contradiction between ideological rejection of the parliamentary system and its own election campaign via the spatial detour of invoking local political peculiarities. The study identifies five argumentation clusters that construct the municipal scale from a far-right perspective and shows the new municipal political strategy of the Freie Sachsen in contrast to the Af D and NPD as a specific local threat for democratic structures.

Translated title of the contribution
“Storm the town halls with us”
A Scale-Sensitive Argumentation Analysis of the Saxon Municipal Election Campaign of the Far-Right Micro-Party Freie Sachsen in 2024

Details

Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)26-48
Number of pages23
JournalBerichte : Geographie und Landeskunde
Volume98
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0009-0008-8751-2274/work/177361347
unpaywall 10.25162/bgl-2025-0003
Scopus 85217006412
Mendeley 0be5c7be-7a46-3108-a293-e23fc0efab03

Keywords

Keywords

  • Freie Sachsen, Saxony, argumentation analysis, municipal politics, political geography, scale