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Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time
political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to
leave growing portions of mass publics effectively 'outside' the
political process. This volume brings together leading authorities
in the field of democratic citizenship and participation to address
pertinent questions concerning the quality of the democratic
political process at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Analysing causes and consequences of recent developments in
democratic governance and citizenship, it contributes new and
original research to the ongoing debate on the crisis of
representative democracy. The contributors deal with a broad range
of issues including aspects of democratic citizenship and citizens'
perceptions of system performance, political inequality and the
democratic impact of participatory innovations. This book will be
of key interest to scholars and students in democratization
studies, democratic citizenship, comparative politics, political
sociology and political participation.
Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time
political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to
leave growing portions of mass publics effectively 'outside' the
political process. This volume brings together leading authorities
in the field of democratic citizenship and participation to address
pertinent questions concerning the quality of the democratic
political process at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Analysing causes and consequences of recent developments in
democratic governance and citizenship, it contributes new and
original research to the ongoing debate on the crisis of
representative democracy. The contributors deal with a broad range
of issues including aspects of democratic citizenship and citizens'
perceptions of system performance, political inequality and the
democratic impact of participatory innovations. This book will be
of key interest to scholars and students in democratization
studies, democratic citizenship, comparative politics, political
sociology and political participation.
The 2013 federal election in Germany took place amidst considerable
uncertainty over the EU's economic crisis. Financial rescue
packages for several countries required the provision of huge sums.
Some EU-members barely avoided the economic abyss. Germany,
however, was spared much of the hardship as her economy produced
record-levels of employment, exports boomed, and German state
coffers began to see a budget surplus. Against this backdrop, this
book examines the choices offered to voters by parties, and
publics' decision calculus. How did Germany's voter evaluate
economic conditions and the Euro crisis? For example, is there a
demand for a new party representing the rising EU-skeptical
sentiments? How did long-term developments such as the weakening
party-voter ties affect the election outcome? What programs did
parties offer to voters in the election? The book brings together
several leading experts of German and European politics to address
these questions. The chapters were originally published as a
special issue in German Politics.
This book, in bringing together some of the leading international
scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides
the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The
individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign
effects in North America, Europe and Australasia. As a whole, the
book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political
campaigns and their consequences.
This book, in bringing together some of the leading international scholars on electoral behaviour and communication studies, provides the first ever stock-take of the state of this sub-discipline. The individual chapters present the most recent studies on campaign effects in North America, Europe and Australasia. As a whole, the book provides a cross-national assessment of the theme of political campaigns and their consequences. eBook available with sample pages: 0203166957
The 2013 federal election in Germany took place amidst considerable
uncertainty over the EU's economic crisis. Financial rescue
packages for several countries required the provision of huge sums.
Some EU-members barely avoided the economic abyss. Germany,
however, was spared much of the hardship as her economy produced
record-levels of employment, exports boomed, and German state
coffers began to see a budget surplus. Against this backdrop, this
book examines the choices offered to voters by parties, and
publics' decision calculus. How did Germany's voter evaluate
economic conditions and the Euro crisis? For example, is there a
demand for a new party representing the rising EU-skeptical
sentiments? How did long-term developments such as the weakening
party-voter ties affect the election outcome? What programs did
parties offer to voters in the election? The book brings together
several leading experts of German and European politics to address
these questions. The chapters were originally published as a
special issue in German Politics.
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The Changing German Voter (Hardcover)
Rudiger Schmitt-Beck, Sigrid Rossteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Wessels, Christof Wolf
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. 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 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 Changing German Voter 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.
Das Buch untersucht verschiedene Aspekte des sozialen Wandels in
Deutschland. Anhand der Daten der Allgemeinen Bevoelkerungsumfrage
der Sozialwissenschaften wird der Frage nach Veranderung in Werten,
Einstellungen und Verhalten der Deutschen nachgegangen.
Voters on the Move or on the Run? addresses electoral change, the
reasons, and the consequences. By investigating heterogeneity of
voting, and complexity of voting and its context the volume shows
that increasing heterogeneity is not arbitrary and unstructured.
Heterogeneity of voting rather is a way of voters dealing with the
increasing complexity of the context of elections - diversified
social structures, increasing differentiation of political supply,
increasing complexity of the information environment. By analysing
the conditions of heterogeneity and showing that the calculus of
voting becomes more and more conditional in terms of what voters
regard as relevant criteria for vote choice, the book demonstrates
that the new feature of electoral behaviour is structured
heterogeneity. The dimensions of differentiation of the electorate
are cognitive capacity and the structure of individual information
acquisition systems. The book demonstrates that voters are on the
move looking for appropriate answers to new complexities rather
than on the run. The book uses data predominantly from the German
Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), and also comparative data from
the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Cross-sectional
analysis is complemented by long- and short-term dynamic analyses
with panel data, and comparative analyses.
Voters and Voting in Context investigates the role of context in
affecting political opinion formation and voting behaviour.
Building on a model of contextual effects on individual-level voter
behaviour, the chapters of this volume explore contextual effects
in Germany in the early twenty-first century. The volume draws upon
manifold combinations of individual and contextual information
gathered in the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) framework
and employ advanced methods. In substantive terms, it investigates
the impact of campaign communication on political learning, effects
of media coverage on the perceived importance of political
problems, and the role of electoral competition on candidate
strategies and perceptions. It also examines the role of social and
economic contexts as well as parties' policy stances in affecting
electoral turnout. The volume explores the impact of social cues on
candidate voting, effects of electoral arenas on vote functions,
the role of media coverage on ideological voting, and effects of
campaign communication on the timing of electoral decision-making.
Voters and Voting in Context demonstrates the key role of the
processes of communication and politicization in bringing about
contextual effects. Context thus plays a nuanced role in voting
behaviour. The contingency of contextual effects suggests that they
will become an important topic in research on political behaviour
and democratic politics.
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