Klasseneinflüsse auf das Wahlverhalten und die Wahlbeteiligung

Gattig, Alexander

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“…Germany is a typical case in so far as its major parties emerged in relation to the lines of cleavage that play a central role in the classic literature on the topic: the class cleavage and the religious cleavage. As in other Western European countries, the persistence of traditional cleavage structures or their possible weakening and dissolution caused by newer lines of conflict is debated in Germany (e.g., Pappi 1977Pappi , 1985Weßels 1994Weßels , 2000Gattig 2006;Debus 2010;Arzheimer and Schoen 2007;Roßteutscher 2011, 2017;Roßteutscher 2012). Moreover, like other Western European countries, Germany shows a long-term decline in turnout (Elff and Roßteutscher 2017), an increasingly socially stratified pattern of electoral participation (Scha ¨fer et al 2020), and-most recently-rising electoral support for a right-wing populist party (the AfD; cf.…”

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The Changing German Voter

2022

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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 Alternative for Germany (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 book 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.

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The Changing German Voter

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“…The leading argument has been the decline of class voting – that is, whether members of the working class and the middle class vote for distinct parties (Clark et al ). However, even if class voting is in decline (which is also debatable; see Evans ; Manza & Brooks ), it might well be because members of the working class have moved from being left‐wing voters to becoming non‐voters (for corresponding arguments, see Goldthorpe ; Gattig ).…”

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Explaining Social Class Inequality in Voter Turnout: The Contribution of Income and Health

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Occupation-based social class is an important, yet under-explored, factor in electoral participation. In this article, social class differences in voter turnout over time are measured, and how two other resources -namely income and health -mediate or modify this relationship is analysed. The analysis is based on an individual-level register-based 11 percent sample of the entire electorate in the 1999 Finnish parliamentary elections, and secondarily on smaller register-based samples in the 2012 presidential and municipal elections. Results show that income mediates part of the effects of social class on voting, while social class and utilised health indicators exert mainly independent effects on turnout. Social class differences remain largely stable in all income and hospital care groups, except that no differences between classes are observed among those most severely affected by health problems. Results are also mostly similar between those of working age and the older population, and between men and women, and remain stable over time and in different types of elections. The findings imply that social class should be taken account in theoretical and empirical models of turnout.

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Parteiwahl und Nichtwahl: Zur Rolle sozialer Konfliktlinien

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Roßteutscher

2016

Wahlen Und Wähler

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Klasseneinflüsse auf das Wahlverhalten und die Wahlbeteiligung

Cited by 6 publications

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The Changing German Voter

The Changing German Voter

Explaining Social Class Inequality in Voter Turnout: The Contribution of Income and Health

Parteiwahl und Nichtwahl: Zur Rolle sozialer Konfliktlinien

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