The Changing German Voter
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 sh...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-841192025-03-15T08:18:34Z The Changing German Voter Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger Roßteutscher, Sigrid Schoen, Harald Weßels, Bernhard Wolf, Christof Germany, electoral behavior, electoral change, party system development, realignment, dealignment, party competition, socio-economic conflict dimension, socio-cultural conflict dimension, right-wing populism 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. 2022-06-11T04:01:05Z 2022-06-11T04:01:05Z 2022-06-10T11:44:32Z 2022 book OCN: 1311598782 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56705 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/84119 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56705/1/9780198847519.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56705/1/9780198847519.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56705/1/9780198847519.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198847519.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198847519.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Universität Mannheim 92f9f9fd-d377-43ac-bde7-19cd402c8b46 fb90c9a7-aedc-4baf-b9ae-0846502cefa5 416 Oxford open access |
| spellingShingle | Germany, electoral behavior, electoral change, party system development, realignment, dealignment, party competition, socio-economic conflict dimension, socio-cultural conflict dimension, right-wing populism The Changing German Voter |
| title | The Changing German Voter |
| title_full | The Changing German Voter |
| title_fullStr | The Changing German Voter |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Changing German Voter |
| title_short | The Changing German Voter |
| title_sort | changing german voter |
| topic | Germany, electoral behavior, electoral change, party system development, realignment, dealignment, party competition, socio-economic conflict dimension, socio-cultural conflict dimension, right-wing populism |
| topic_facet | Germany, electoral behavior, electoral change, party system development, realignment, dealignment, party competition, socio-economic conflict dimension, socio-cultural conflict dimension, right-wing populism |
| url | OCN: 1311598782 |