Philipp Adorf

Philipp Adorf is a research associate at the University of Bonn, specializing in the Republican Party and the influence of demographic changes on its radicalization and electoral dynamics in the United States. His scholarly work includes How the South Was Won and the Nation Lost, which examines the history and political consequences of the Republican Party’s Southern Strategy, and Die Republikanische Partei in den USA, a comprehensive German-language history of the party. He has also analyzed the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the success of right-wing populist parties among the white working class, as detailed in his article “A New Blue-Collar Force: The Alternative for Germany and the Working Class” published in German Politics and Society in 2018. Additionally, he has co-edited compendiums on U.S. democracy (Die USA—eine scheiternde Demokratie?) and right-wing populism (Aufstand der Außenseiter). Currently, he is working on an edited volume examining the far right’s challenge to the American political system, as well as a book exploring conspiracism and its metapolitical mainstreaming through right-wing actors.