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A New Player in the Game: Changing Electoral Competition in Germany
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The Changing German Voter
Abstract
This chapter asks how electoral competition changed from 2013 to 2017 in East and West Germany. Following Sartori's understanding of party systems as systems of interactions resulting from inter-party competition, it focuses on the content-related properties of the German party system. Combining dat... view more
This chapter asks how electoral competition changed from 2013 to 2017 in East and West Germany. Following Sartori's understanding of party systems as systems of interactions resulting from inter-party competition, it focuses on the content-related properties of the German party system. Combining data from the GLES 2013 and 2017 voter and candidate surveys, it investigates, first, the extent of electoral competition in terms of overlapping electoral support of party pairs and, second, how the establishment of the AfD changed the substantial structure underlying electoral competition in East and West Germany. Findings suggest that electoral competition in Germany is best described as three-dimensional. Whereas regional differences result from different voter preferences regarding policy issues, temporal differences are essentially the result of the changing relevance of the socio-economic and socio-cultural issue dimensions but also a newly emerged populist-pluralist divide.... view less
Keywords
voting behavior; party; party politics; old federal states; preference; Federal Republic of Germany; party system; New Federal States
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
AfD; dimensionality of competition; electoral competition; German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) 2013 (CrossSec13_Post, CandSurv13_Plus) and 2017 (CrossSec17_Post, CandSurv17)
Collection Title
The Changing German Voter
Editor
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger; Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schoen, Harald; Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford
Page/Pages
p. 121-142
ISBN
978-0-19-884751-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0