Zwischen Langeweile und Extremen: Die Bundestagswahl 2009

Rattinger, Hans; Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schmitt‐Beck, Rüdiger; Weßels, Bernhard; Bieber, Ina; Blumenstiel, Jan Eric; Bytzek, Evelyn; Faas, Thorsten; Huber, Sascha; Krewel, Mona; Maier, Jürgen; Rudi, Tatjana; Scherer, Philipp E.; Steinbrecher, Markus; Wagner, Aiko; Wolsing, Ansgar

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“…As official statistics on religious denominations or church attendance do not exist at the constituency level, the religiousness of the electoral district represented by an MP can only be estimated. We use data collected by the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) for the 2009 Bundestag Election (Rattinger et al ) in combination with a recently developed statistical model that allows reliable measures for small geographic entities to be derived from sparse survey data (Selb and Munzert ) . Our measure of church attendance thus reflects the approximate share of voters in a constituency that attends a church service at least once a month…”

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Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

Baumann

Debus

Müller

2015

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Theoretical and empirical models of legislative decision making in parliamentary democracies typically neglect the policy preferences of individual MPs and instead focus on political parties and possible institutional constraints. We argue that MPs actually make judgments and decisions on the basis of their preferences, which are shaped by their personal characteristics. However, given the strength of parties in most parliamentary systems, the impact of personal characteristics on legislative behavior is rarely visible. Therefore, we examine a moral issue. Looking at cosponsorship, parliamentary speeches, and votes in the German Bundestag, we analyze the legislative procedure on the regulation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in Germany in 2011. We show that the legislative behavior of MPs does not only reflect partisan conflict but is also influenced by the preferences of the constituents and MPs' own personal characteristics such as: religious denomination, gender, and parental status.

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Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

Baumann

Debus

Müller

2015

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“…Note: Author's own calculations based on the GLES online tracking studies t11, t15, t18, t25, t29, t33, t37 (ZA5344, ZA5348, ZA5351, ZA5725, ZA5729, ZA5733, ZA6817; Rattinger et al 2015aRattinger et al , 2015bRattinger et al , 2014Rattinger et al , 2015cRoßteutscher et al 2016a). The percentages represent respondents who felt strongly and very strongly towards Angela Merkel in respect to their anger and enthusiasm towards her.…”

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Politicians' Expressions of Anger and Leadership Evaluations

Masch¹

2020

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This book explores the impact of politicians’ expressions of anger on viewers. Electoral candidates may alter their emotional behaviour strategically during election campaigns as a means of gaining voters’ support. Hence, this study investigates empirically how expressions of anger affect leadership evaluations. An experiment was conducted to establish the impact of politicians’ expressions of emotions on viewers. This study focuses on politicians as a social group, as well as three politicians in particular: Chancellor Angela Merkel; Gregor Gysi, the former parliamentary leader of the Left; and Sigmar Gabriel, the former party leader of the Social Democrats. These three case studies are well-suited to testing the effects of expressions of emotion by political leaders with varying positions in the political system. Lena Masch is a lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf.

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“…The second analysis focuses on the micro level and aims to assess the theoretical chain underlying the postulated macro relationship. To achieve this aim, we use cross-sectional survey data from the GLES (Rattinger et al, 2011 and 2014) 9 and combine the pre-and post-election surveys. The surveys were conducted six weeks before and after the federal election in Germany on 27 September 2009.…”

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Cobbler, Stick to Your Last? Social Democrats’ Electoral Returns from Labour Market Policy

Fossati

Trein

2020

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In this article, we examine how labour market policy interventions, notably short-time work (STW), affect voting behaviour in times of electoral downturn. We use the 2009 German general elections as an example. This is a particularly interesting case because the grand coalition of Christian democrats (CDU/CSU) and social democrats (SPD) was up for re-election against the backdrop of a major recession following the 2007/08 financial crisis and extensively used STW policies to counteract rising unemployment. Interestingly, STW policy and unemployment vary considerably between regions. We exploit this variance to create a unique dataset that combines regional information on STW policy and unemployment in 299 German electoral constituencies with individual data from the post-election survey. Our results show that especially the SPD profited from high STW rates at constituency level on election day, but this policy was insufficient to preclude the major losses social democrats suffered during the election. More generally, our results indicate that classic labour market policy can generate electoral support for social democratic parties, even as a “junior partner” in a grand coalition. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether such support is sufficient for electoral victories.

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Zwischen Langeweile und Extremen: Die Bundestagswahl 2009

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Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

Politicians' Expressions of Anger and Leadership Evaluations

Cobbler, Stick to Your Last? Social Democrats’ Electoral Returns from Labour Market Policy

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