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When the world around you is changing: Investigating the Influence of Alienation and Indifference on Voter Turnout
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the amount of variability in individual turnout decisions over time and its dependence on the changing characteristics of political parties as one feature of the political context. Electoral participation in the German federal elections from 1994 to 2013 was characterized b... view more
This chapter investigates the amount of variability in individual turnout decisions over time and its dependence on the changing characteristics of political parties as one feature of the political context. Electoral participation in the German federal elections from 1994 to 2013 was characterized by inertia for most eligible voters. However, one reason for dynamics in turnout behavior is changes in individual alienation with regard to the political parties. When voters develop a more favorable view of the political parties than in the previous election in terms of the parties’ generalized evaluation or perceived competence, they are motivated to switch from abstention to voting (and vice versa). But the political parties’ capacity to raise turnout rates is rather narrow compared to the influence of other determinants, such as the perceived duty to vote.... view less
Keywords
alienation; voting behavior; variability; voter turnout; party; political participation; election research; electoral sociology; Federal Republic of Germany; election to the Bundestag
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
German Longitudinal Election Study; GLES; turnout; political parties; fixed-effects regression; alienation; indifference
Collection Title
Voters and Voting in Context
Editor
Schoen, Harald; Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger; Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 146-166
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7ANKJ
ISBN
978-0-19-879213-0
Status
Preprint; not reviewed