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100			_aHeinze, Anna-Sophie _955033
245			_aDrivers of radicalisation? The development and role of the far-right youth organisation ‘young alternative’ in Germany
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a46(1), Jan, 2025: p.108-124
520			_aToday, many far-right parties maintain youth wings, providing opportunities to mobilise members and future party leaders. However, they are often neglected in the study of the far right’s organisation. This article explores the development of the ‘Young Alternative’ and its ambivalent relationship with the ‘Alternative for Germany’. Theoretically, it argues that far-right youth wings can act as important drivers of radicalisation. It also tries to understand conflicts between far-right youth organisations and parties by discussing the interactions between organisational development and radicalisation. Empirically, it opens the ‘black box’ of the German case by drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including semi-structured interviews with high-ranking ‘Young Alternative’ members, (social) media communication and official documents of the ‘Young Alternative’, ‘Alternative for Germany’ and intelligence services. Overall, the article underlines the importance of far-right youth wings as part of the broader party organisation and offers substantial theoretical and empirical research perspectives.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121231221961
650			_aFar-right youth prgamosatopm. Party organisation, Radicalisation, Germany, Alternative for Germany. _955034
773			_aInternational Political Science Review
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