Die Positionen der Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2021: Ergebnisse des Open Expert Surveys

Abstract

ZusammenfassungDiese Research Note berichtet zentrale Ergebnisse des Open Expert Surveys 2021 (OES21). In diesem Expert:innen-Survey, der vor der Bundestagswahl 2021 durchgeführt wurde, haben mehr als 300 Politikwissenschaftler:innen die wichtigsten Parteien entlang zentraler politischer Sachfragen verortet und deren Wichtigkeit für die jeweilige Partei geschätzt. Der OES21 unterscheidet sich von gängigen Expert:innenbefragungen in zweierlei Hinsicht. Zum einen umfasst der Survey zahlreiche themenspezifische Items, die in anderen Befragungen bislang keine Beachtung fanden. Zum anderen ist die Anzahl der Expert:innen sehr hoch, wodurch Zusammenhänge in der Positionierung auf Ebene der einzelnen Expert:innen analysiert werden können.

LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates

“…Focusing on Germany has several advantages. First, diversity issues becamelikewise in several other modern democraciesa highly salient issue in German party competition with the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) actively campaigning against anti-discrimination law proposals, whereas parties with societally progressive positions like the Alliance 90/The Greens (Greens), The Left, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) are in favour of policies that protect the rights of sexual minorities (Abou-Chadi et al, 2021;Jankowski et al, 2022;Wurthmann, 2023a). In addition, and as the descriptive results will show, the German case allows for analysing the policy profile of LGB candidates not only predominantly from liberal and progressive parties on socio-cultural issues, but also from parties which adopt moderate to explicit traditionalist profiles on the order of society like CDU, CSU and AfD.…”

“…With the exception of the FDP candidates, of which 18% did not want to provide information on their sexual identity, between 8% and 11% of the respective parties' candidates did not participate in answering this question. While the share of LGB candidates participating in the survey is highest among SPD, FDP, Greens and The Left and thus among those parties in Germany that adopt progressive positions in societal affairs in general (e.g., Jankowski et al, 2022) and on diversity issues in particular (Wurthmann, 2023a), the share of respondents with an LGB identity is clearly smaller among the candidates of the rather traditionalist CDU, CSU and the AfD. Nevertheless, there are LGB candidates among parties with a more traditionalist socio-cultural profile in the sample, which allows for evaluating whether LGB candidates are more progressive than other candidates and their party across the complete ideological party spectrum.…”

All for One, and One for All? Analysing Party Positions on EU Solidarity in Germany in Challenging Times

“…It draws on an earlier expert study by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver (2006) and includes a large number of already established survey items, but scholars also had the chance to incorporate specific sets of questions. Topics covered in the survey range from migration, economy, gender, minority rights and social issues to EU specific questions (see also Jankowski et al 2022). 1 Regarding the latter topic area, a question on the general shift of competences to the EU level was included.…”

Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Elections

“…According to the open expert survey on issue salience and positions of political parties during the 2021 federal election (Jankowski et al 2022), the Green party, Die LINKE and SPD were the parties (1) with the most children and family-friendly positions on childcare and compulsory education policies and (2) allocating the largest salience to these education-related policies. By contrast, the Green party was the party with the largest salience and the most interventionist position on climate and environmental policies.…”