Explaining the Green vote: Belgian local elections, 1994–2006

Hooghe, Marc; Heyndels, Bruno; Jottier, Dimi; Bircan, Tuba; Botterman, Sarah

doi:10.1080/09644016.2010.518682

Cited by 12 publications

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“…According to surveys conducted in several European countries, both highly qualified people and youths are more prone to support this party family (Dolezal 2010, Oesch-Rennwald 2010, Hooghe et al 2010. Ecological inferences also confirm this tendency: the strongholds of green parties are in big cities, capitals, and especially downtown areas-places with a high proportion of young and educated inhabitants .…”

Section: Three Competing Political Communities Among the Hungarian Youthmentioning

confidence: 55%

Patterns of civic participation among politically active students in Hungary

Oross¹,

Róna²,

Szabó³

2017

socio.hu

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The article aims to describe common characteristics of politically active college and university students in Hungary and to give an insight into their divergent values, ideologies and motivations. First, we identify their participation in different forms of political action. Then we use a "phenomenological", intrinsic approach that is able to understand the "voice" of young people based on the suggestions of former research that young people`s political communities influence their willingness to participate. We found that direct forms of participation are the key to understanding the political participation of the university students and we conclude that their political way of thinking and their consequent political action may be determined by three political communities in the long term.

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Section: Three Competing Political Communities Among the Hungarian Youthmentioning

confidence: 55%

Patterns of civic participation among politically active students in Hungary

Oross¹,

Róna²,

Szabó³

2017

socio.hu

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“…203-204), and this may limit the Greens' appeal much beyond 10% of the national vote (Charnock 2009, p. 254). This is compounded because there are few indications, if any, that the Greens voter base is mainstreaming and diversifying (Hooghe et al 2010). On this assessment, the Greens' electoral support is likely to remain contained into the foreseeable future, even if the party does continue to capitalise on episodic outpourings of dissatisfaction with conventional parties.…”

Section: Environmental Politics 719mentioning

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The Australian Greens: carving out space in a two-party system

Miragliotta

2013

Environmental Politics

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“…Few studies are available, however, regarding community level effects of organised religion: are religious parties more successful in religious communities, even controlling for individual level characteristics of voters? This kind of analysis regarding the local level has already proven to be quite useful, for instance in predicting the vote for extreme-right parties (Coffe´et al, 2007), or for Green parties (Hooghe et al, 2010). We aim to ascertain whether the methodology used in this kind of studies can also be used in a meaningful manner to predict the share of vote for the Christian Democratic party in Belgium.…”

Section: The Measurement Of the Religious Cleavagementioning

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Religion and voting behaviour in Belgium: An analysis of the relation between religious beliefs and Christian Democratic voting

Botterman

Hooghe

2011

Acta Polit

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In this article, we investigate the impact of religious involvement on voting preference for the Christian Democratic party in Belgium. Although religious involvement is declining in Western European democracies, there is still significant evidence for the influence of religion on voting behaviour. We examine the relationship between individual religiosity, community religious involvement and vote preference for the Christian Democratic party in Belgium in 2009. The results show that a Catholic denomination is the most important predictor for vote preference for the Christian Democratic party, followed by church practice. The multilevel analysis demonstrates that this effect can be observed not just at the individual level, but also at the community level as inhabitants of communities with high levels of church practice are more likely to vote for the Christian Democratic party, even controlling for their own religious background and behaviour. Religion still plays a role in determining voting preferences, with the religious effect occurring simultaneously at the individual and the community level, although it is clear that the effect is much stronger at the individual level.

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Explaining the Green vote: Belgian local elections, 1994–2006

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Patterns of civic participation among politically active students in Hungary

Patterns of civic participation among politically active students in Hungary

The Australian Greens: carving out space in a two-party system

Religion and voting behaviour in Belgium: An analysis of the relation between religious beliefs and Christian Democratic voting

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