The Nomination and Electoral Competitiveness of Working Class Candidates in Germany

Matthews, Austin S.; Kerevel, Yann P.

doi:10.1080/09644008.2021.1874935

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“…Outside the U.S., studies find substantively small or null differences. Matthews and Kerevel (2021) estimate that workers in German state legislative elections are 9 percentage points less likely to win their contests compared to their white-collar rivals (6% vs. 15%, respectively), a difference that decreases to 3 percentage points with controls. Albaugh (2020) finds no appreciable difference in the performance of working class and white-collar candidates in elections to the provincial legislature in New Brunswick, Canada.…”

Section: Explaining the Underrepresentation Of The Working Classmentioning

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Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation

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Hansen

2023

Political Research Quarterly

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How do working class candidates perform in primary elections? Working class candidates rarely emerge, but existing evidence suggests workers perform as well as white-collar candidates once on the ballot. However, this evidence comes from studies of general elections. It is unknown whether these findings extend to other types of elections like primaries, where candidates compete without the political and financial backing of a party. We collect and analyze novel data describing the occupational background of all candidates who competed in U.S. House primaries between 2008 and 2016. The results show that working class candidates received an average vote share 24 percentage points lower than nonworkers and are 31 percentage points less likely to win their primaries. Controlling for other candidate, contest, and district characteristics helps to attenuate the performance gap. We find mixed evidence that fundraising and prior officeholding experience moderates workers' performance, but weak or no evidence that voter bias, party affiliation, or primary type do so. The study suggests that workers struggle to compete in primaries and calls for further research explaining what prevents workers from winning public office.

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“…Working class candidates do not receive fewer votes in general elections for the U.S. House than white-collar candidates on average (Carnes 2018). Evidence outside the U.S. is mixed but finds either substantively small or no class differences in candidate performance (Albaugh 2020; Matthews and Kerevel 2021).…”

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Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation

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Hansen

2023

Political Research Quarterly

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“…Lower levels of descriptive representation and higher barriers to standing for election have been found for women (Childs and Lovenduski 2013;Mackay 2004), ethnic minorities (Sobolewska 2013;Stegmaier et al 2013), working-class people (Matthews and Kerevel 2021;Murray 2021), and candidates with disabilities (Indriyany et al 2019;Reher 2022). Research on these groups' political representation have largely developed in isolation from one another, resulting in the frequent omission of intersectional disadvantages in representation (Krook and Nugent 2016;Minta 2012;Severs et al 2016).…”

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Ticking Two Boxes, Fighting Two Battles: Intersectional Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Councillors in UK Local Government

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Sobolewska

2024

Pol & Gen

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When the analytical lens of intersectionality was first applied to descriptive representation, it documented the increased level of disadvantage for those belonging to more than one underrepresented group. Although ethnic minority women have been slow to benefit from drives to boost ethnic minority or women’s representation, increasingly, political parties seeking to diversify see them as “ticking two boxes,” resulting in a new positive story of relative representational success in many countries and legislatures. However, we argue that the two narratives coexist: intersectional group membership mars the experience of ethnic minority women politicians despite their increased electoral success. Conceptualizing intersectional disadvantage beyond examining differential outcomes, we focus instead on how the mechanisms leading to those outcomes are experienced by ethnic minority women local councillors, from their selection to their working conditions and extra representative burdens. Using 85 interviews with ethnic minority women and men UK local councillors, we demonstrate how gender and racial inequalities leave ethnic minority women fighting two (or more) battles.

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“…For instance, Sweden Democrats candidates have comparable experiences of economic precariousness with their voters, such as increasing job insecurity and disposable-income losses (Dal Bó et al, 2021). Also, German radical-right and radical-left selectorates are more likely to nominate working-class candidates than mainstream parties (Matthews and Kerevel, 2022).…”

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The road to European parliament mandate for populist radical-right parties: Selecting the ‘perfect’ AfD candidate

Kamenova

2023

Party Politics

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With growing public distrust toward European institutions, Eurosceptic populist radical-right parties make up almost a third of MEPs in the current European Parliament. As part of the larger scholarly debate on populist parties’ success, this article examines intra-party selection logic for the ‘perfect’ populist radical-right MEP candidate. Using original data from participant observation and interviews with Alternative for Germany delegates during the 2018/2019 European Election Assembly, this study suggests that party members were more likely to be selected as candidates if they (1) possessed extensive network with right-wing social movements to strengthen their electoral mobilization; (2) and showed strong commitment to party cohesion and good reputation to fend off accusations of racism and Nazism.

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The Nomination and Electoral Competitiveness of Working Class Candidates in Germany

Cited by 8 publications

References 49 publications

Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation

Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation

Ticking Two Boxes, Fighting Two Battles: Intersectional Experiences of Ethnic Minority Women Councillors in UK Local Government

The road to European parliament mandate for populist radical-right parties: Selecting the ‘perfect’ AfD candidate

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