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When the world around you is changing: Investigating the Influence of Alienation and Indifference on Voter Turnout
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Abstract This chapter investigates the amount of variability in individual turnout decisions over time and its dependence on the changing characteristics of political parties as one feature of the political context. Electoral participation in the German federal elections from 1994 to 2013 was characterized b... mehr
This chapter investigates the amount of variability in individual turnout decisions over time and its dependence on the changing characteristics of political parties as one feature of the political context. Electoral participation in the German federal elections from 1994 to 2013 was characterized by inertia for most eligible voters. However, one reason for dynamics in turnout behavior is changes in individual alienation with regard to the political parties. When voters develop a more favorable view of the political parties than in the previous election in terms of the parties’ generalized evaluation or perceived competence, they are motivated to switch from abstention to voting (and vice versa). But the political parties’ capacity to raise turnout rates is rather narrow compared to the influence of other determinants, such as the perceived duty to vote.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Entfremdung; Wahlverhalten; Variabilität; Wahlbeteiligung; Partei; politische Partizipation; Wahlforschung; Wahlsoziologie; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Bundestagswahl
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
German Longitudinal Election Study; GLES; turnout; political parties; fixed-effects regression; alienation; indifference
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Voters and Voting in Context
Herausgeber
Schoen, Harald; Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger; Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 146-166
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7ANKJ
ISBN
978-0-19-879213-0
Status
Preprint; nicht begutachtet