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Spatial Realignment of German Voters and Germany's Regional Cleavage: The Case of the Green Party in the 2019 European Elections
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Abstract This article seeks to explain the increase in the German Green party votes in 2019 European elections through the East-West cleavage. Using the 2018 German General Social Survey data, it identifies and compares the Green Party electorate in both regions in terms of conventional and supposed determin... mehr
This article seeks to explain the increase in the German Green party votes in 2019 European elections through the East-West cleavage. Using the 2018 German General Social Survey data, it identifies and compares the Green Party electorate in both regions in terms of conventional and supposed determinants of Green voting. Results of the multivariate analysis equally support both models, indicating left-wing voters as the main source of the Greens’ electoral gains across Germany. However, while in the East the Greens were supported primarily by the electorate of the Social Democratic party dissatisfied with the activity of this party, Western Germans exhibited a trend of left-leaning voters’ backlash against the rise of the radical right party Alternative for Germany through Green voting. This realignment is explicated by the persistent specifics of German regional party politics combined with intrinsic value distinctions of their dwellers, and recent shifts in party-voters ties.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Europawahl; Die Grünen; Wahlergebnis; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; alte Bundesländer; neue Bundesländer; regionaler Unterschied; Wahlverhalten; Wechselwähler; Parteiensystem; Parteipolitik
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
German Party System; Green Party; Regional Cleavage; Voters' Realignment; ZA5270: Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften ALLBUS 2018, Data File Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13250
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 31-58
Zeitschriftentitel
Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 45 (2020)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.45.2
ISSN
2414-6633
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)