Lokale Parteiensysteme in Deutschland

Rademacher, Christian

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“…I track changes of voter turnout within counties conditional on either having the newly formed AfD participating in the election or not. The data originates from the local election database by Rademacher (2018), which covers the time period from 1990 to 2016. This empirical case study complements findings of the initial analysis and yields a causal estimate of the effect of radical new party entry on voter turnout in the context of recent German local elections.…”

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“…This requires local election data for at least one observation before and after the initial candidacies by the AfD. Counties for which data on the pre-and posttreatment period was not available in the local election database (Rademacher, 2018) are dropped from the analysis. This includes the city states of Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen.…”

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The Mobilizing Effect of Party System Polarization. Evidence From Europe

Ellger

2023

Comparative Political Studies

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Does party system polarization mobilize voters? Polarization is increasingly shaping democratic competition across Europe. While often perceived to be negative, polarization can be an effective remedy against voter disengagement. This paper investigates two distinct, but often conflated mechanisms, which could explain why polarization leads to mobilization. Spatial polarization of parties diversifies electoral options at the ballot, while affective polarization mobilizes based on emotional considerations. This article then shows the link between polarization and turnout across 22 European countries. The results are complemented by a difference-in-differences analysis of German local elections. However, voting results alone do not inform about the mechanism at play. Survey data is used to show that negative affect appears to be the main driver of voter participation. Party polarization thus has ambivalent consequences for democracies: It mobilizes the electorate, but its effect is driven by negative emotions.

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Section: Analysis 2: Polarization and Turnout In German Local Electionsmentioning

confidence: 99%