Valenz im ideologischen Parteienwettbewerb während des Bundestagswahlkampfes 2013

Shikano, Susumu; Käppner, Konstantin

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-11206-6_12

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“…Recent studies have shown that voters primarily rely on policy considerations and the ideological proximity of a coalition but also the learned familiarity of a certain combination of parties in governments (Falco-Gimeno 2012; Debus and Mu ¨ller 2014). At the same time, it was shown that voters also use valence considerations when making up their mind about their coalition preference (see Shikano and Ka ¨ppner 2016;Nyhuis and Plescia 2018). While these findings are important contributions to a better understanding of coalition evaluations, they also raise questions about the significance of coalition considerations for vote choices.…”

Section: Expectations On the Stability Of Coalition Preferences And T...mentioning

confidence: 98%

The Changing German Voter

2022

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Over the past half century, the behavior of German voters has changed profoundly—at first rather gradually but during the last decade at accelerated speed. Electoral decision-making has become much more volatile, rendering election outcomes less predictable. Party system fragmentation intensified sharply. The success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) put an end to Germany’s exceptionality as one of the few European countries without a strong right-wing populist party. Utilizing a wide range of data compiled by the German Longitudinal Election Study, the book examines changing voters’ behavior in the context of changing parties, campaigns, and media during the period of its hitherto most dramatically increased fluidity at the 2009, 2013, and 2017 federal elections. Guided by the notions of realignment and dealignment, the study addresses three questions: How did the turbulences that increasingly characterize German electoral politics come about? How did they in turn condition voters’ decision-making? How were voters’ attitudes and choices affected by situational factors that pertained to the specifics of particular elections? The book demonstrates how traditional cleavages lost their grip on voters and a new socio-cultural line of conflict became the dominant axis of party competition. A series of major crises, but also programmatic shifts of the established parties promoted this development. It led to a segmentation of the party system that pits the right-wing populist AfD against the traditional parties. The book also demonstrates the relevance of coalition preferences, candidate images as well as media and campaign effects for voters’ attitudes, beliefs, and preferences.

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Section: Expectations On the Stability Of Coalition Preferences And T...mentioning

confidence: 98%