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    Populism and covid-19: the influence of covid-19 on populism of AfD and perceptional change of AfD supporters towards national and international elites
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2020) Etke, Fatih; Erdoğan, Emre
    ABSTRACT: Populist parties including Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) frame the national and international elites as a scapegoat during all crises. By bringing the crises into certain 'fear' forms, populist parties raise the level of anxiety in the society and defend themselves as a 'sole remedy'. Another feature of populist parties is having a simple, clear-cut explanation for all problems, which combine current crises with other problems of society. For example, while linking the migrant crisis to an increase in the unemployment rate; they match multiculturalism with the destruction of society's values. The COVID-19 crisis has turned into a pandemic in a very short time and had an atomic impact on world politics. Populist parties have been trying to consolidate or increase their political power by conceptualising COVID-19 with fear and threat discourses in populism. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the AfD’s strategy has resembled the logic of a ‘business model’. The party has packaged shock and confusion in populist discourse and presented it to society again. In other words, they meet the 'need for explanatory demand' in the society with the supply which they set up using their own discourses. They then present them to the society especially through the channel of social media tools. For the seek of the main argument of this thesis, AfD’s political performance during the coronavirus crisis has been analysed. Therefore, it is important to deeply analyse the AfD’s official statements, leader’s social media posts and tweets from the first day that COVID-19 appeared in Germany to the second week of May. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyse how the COVID-19 global crisis has been instrumentalized in the populist rhetoric by the AfD, as well as discuss perception shifts among AfD followers towards national and international elites.