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Pegida-Study: Less Demokratiefeinde

A group of researchers at the Dresden political scientist Werner Patzelt studied how followers of the foreigners and islamkritischen Pegida movement is currently to act and think. Some of the results surprise.

The satisfaction with democracy is apparently increased. Compared with a survey of the researchers from the January 2015 feel 74 percent of the Pegida-trailers in this year, the democracy all in all, as something more Favorable. Only 21 percent see them as problematic. In particular, the critical voices, like the democracy in Germany works, easily removed. On the question of how the Pegida followers, by current political parties and politicians responsible feel, are no longer around 77 per cent (April 2015), but only 69 percent dissatisfied.

Political scientist Werner Patzelt: “The tone is harsh,”

Professor Werner Patzelt, speaks in a DW Interview of a “System effect” under the Pegida supporters. “They realize that the political System is a set of tools provides in order to influence policy, and you remember that the Federal policy in their course corrected, since much of the asylum package II, the adopted by the Bundestag, equivalent to the claims of Pegida”.

AfD wins great approval

The Pegida movement remains according to the study, further politically significantly to the right of the average of the German population. Most of the political parties will be rejected. This also includes the CDU with only about five percent approval. The Nazi party NPD gets even only one percent interest. The focal point is the AfD. Wanted in 2015, only 33 percent of the Pegida-supporters the right-wing AfD select, there are now now 56,3 percent.

The phrase “Pegida and AfD are the same” was a bit overdone, admits Werner Patzelt a, meet the core. “The mood is intensifying. The tone of the demonstrations is rough and intolerance towards supposedly dissidents is bigger and more aggressive”. The results of the study were, but not a swing to the right in the Pegida movement demonstrate. Above all, there is no further acceptance of the presence of the Radical right. You will of 76 percent of the Pegida-people rejected. In fact, within the Pegida only 20 percent of far-Right be attributed. The majority it seems then not to be.

A Pegida Demonstration in January the Cologne police used water cannons a

Critical View Of The World

In the study queried the General settings bring no evidence for dramatic Meinungsänderungen. The United States and the globalization will continue to be viewed with skepticism. Symphatien there are for Russia, while Germany is as socially unjust. Most Pegida followers are men (77%), married (60%), have a good, practical education and earn average to below average.

Representative Study ?

Professor Patzelt is time and again accused of it drive him to a distance to Pegida. The holder of the chair for political systems and system comparison of the TU Dresden can look at the study results, but on a whole series of four Quotenstichproben for 2015 support. The recent Intensive surveys have about 400 Pegida supporters participated. He completed his PhD in the DW-Interview: “We can be sure that what is in our study is represented, which corresponds to what in reality occurs.” Nevertheless, grants Patzelt a, very strong Rechtsstehende not been addressed and younger right-Wing extremist, a survey usually refuses to have. By comparing his surveys of other studies, there are nevertheless a realistic impression of a movement in the capital as in the General population is still not really classified.