2009
DOI: 10.1007/s12286-009-0062-1
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Cleavage Structures and Voter Alignments within Nations

Abstract: Despite its general popularity the cleavage theory has only rarely been used to explain regional electoral outcome. In this paper we examine whether a region′s social structure and its electoral results are systematically linked. to analyse the political preferences of an entire regional electorate in a single step, electoral results are translated into a left-right position for each region using Gross and Sigelmann′s concept of the ideological centre of gravity. We then analyse whether the left-right differen… Show more

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“…This finding is consistent with the results of the expert survey. It should be noted that Wordscores tend to produce statistically distinct estimates of party positions (Klemmensen et al 2007;Laver et al 2003;Hug and Schulz 2007;Magin et al 2009;Laver et al 2006). The left-right ordering of the parties is also consistent with the results of the expert survey.…”
Section: Wordscoressupporting
confidence: 80%
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“…This finding is consistent with the results of the expert survey. It should be noted that Wordscores tend to produce statistically distinct estimates of party positions (Klemmensen et al 2007;Laver et al 2003;Hug and Schulz 2007;Magin et al 2009;Laver et al 2006). The left-right ordering of the parties is also consistent with the results of the expert survey.…”
Section: Wordscoressupporting
confidence: 80%
“…Studies analyzing parallel textual data are interesting because they give an opportunity to test the validity and the reliability of word-based textual analysis methods in a more rigorous way than repeated studies focusing on a single language and/or a single party system. Wordscores has been tested with languages other than English, such as Dutch (Klemmensen et al 2007), German (Hug and Schulz 2007;Magin et al 2009;Bräuninger and Debus 2008), and French (Laver et al 2006). But we could find only one study comparing Wordscores results using bi-texts as input.…”
Section: Word-based Parallel Content Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 Anzahl (absolut) und Stimmen (in %) der Klein(st)parteien bei Bundestagswahlen seit 1953 1980er-Jahre und die 5 %-Hürde für den Einzug ins Parlament zurückzuführen ist. Seitdem haben sich weder die Cleavages (Magin et al 2009) noch das Wahlsystem (Behnke 2007;Hartmann 2013) stark verändert. Trotz dieser Umstände sehen wir einen massiven Anstieg der Zahl von Klein(st)parteien, die an den Bundestagswahlen teilnehmen (Abb.…”
Section: Parteimitglieder In Etablierten Parteien Und Klein(st)parteienunclassified