Präsenz und Erfolg Kommunaler Wählergemeinschaften im Bundesländervergleich

Reiser, Marion; Rademacher, Christian; Jaeck, Tobias

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-09026-9_6

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“…Their origins lie in local politics, where they have succeeded for decades, particularly in the southern states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Bavaria (Holtmann 2012, pp. 26-27;Kranenpohl 2013;Reiser et al 2008). In local politics, they do not contest local elections as a political party but rather as independent local lists, making them distinctive in the local political landscape (Reiser 2012, p. 80).…”

Section: The Free Voters In the German Political Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous research has demonstrated that independent local lists are particularly successful in rural areas with smaller populations (Angenendt 2021b, pp. 272-273;Reiser et al 2008). Due to the strong local political anchoring of the Free Voters' independent local lists, it seems reasonable to conclude that the Free Voters are more likely to be elected where they are successful in local elections.…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Die Freien Wähler: Eine anständige Alternative für Konservative?

Wurthmann

Angenendt

Thomeczek

2023

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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The Free Voters (Freie Wähler) party is becoming a more serious competitor in the German party system. It gained parliamentary representation in the Rhineland Palatine in 2021 and has been governing with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria since 2018. In addition, the Free Voters party now holds two of the 96 German parliamentary member positions in the European Parliament and is, at the federal level, the extraparliamentary opposition party with the greatest number of votes. Nevertheless, there has, to date, been no analysis examining people’s motives for voting for the Free Voters or exploring their future openness to voting for the party. This article addresses this oversight by identifying factors, based on population-representative data from the 2021 Bundestag elections, that favour openness and voting for this increasingly influential party. Our analysis shows that a more general dissatisfaction with democratic outputs, a conservative attitude, and low perceptions of spatial distance from the political positions of the Free Voters have significant positive effects.

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Section: The Free Voters In the German Political Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

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Die Freien Wähler: Eine anständige Alternative für Konservative?

Wurthmann

Angenendt

Thomeczek

2023

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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“…Germany is no exception to this trend. While being historically more successful in Southern German federal states, ILL were able to gain influence at the local level in Western and Eastern Germany and are now represented in various local councils (Holtkamp et al, 2015; Reiser et al, 2008).…”

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The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany

Jankowski¹,

Juen²,

Tepe

2020

Party Politics

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Independent local lists (ILL) have become an important non-partisan actor in many local elections. However, little is known about which factors explain their electoral success. Drawing on recent contributions regarding the anti-establishment attitudes of many ILL, we argue that the rise of anti-establishment parties, especially the rise of populist radical-right parties, potentially harms the electoral success of ILL. Our main argument is that both actors attract voters that are dissatisfied with established parties. To test this hypothesis, we draw on the case of municipal elections in the German federal state of Lower Saxony. In the election of 2016, the populist radical-right party AfD competed in only a subset of all municipalities, meaning that some voters could cast their vote for the AfD in only some of the municipalities. We use a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the effect of the AfD on independent local list’s vote share and demonstrate that ILL suffered strongly from the entrance of the AfD to the electoral arena. More specifically, our findings demonstrate that the increase in the success of ILL was halted in municipalities in which the AfD competed, while it continued to increase in regions where the AfD was absent. These findings suggest that the increasing success of ILL is due to voters’ dissatisfaction with the established parties and not necessarily due to an increasing interest in local issues.

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Parteien auf der kommunalen Ebene

Holtmann¹

2013

Handbuch Parteienforschung

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Präsenz und Erfolg Kommunaler Wählergemeinschaften im Bundesländervergleich

Cited by 20 publications

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Die Freien Wähler: Eine anständige Alternative für Konservative?

Die Freien Wähler: Eine anständige Alternative für Konservative?

The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany

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