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Leaving the Space - Opening the Gap? Electoral Effects of Parties' and Voters' Repositioning
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The Changing German Voter
Abstract Examining the German case in the wider Western European context for the period 1996-2017, the chapter investigates the role of supply and demand factors for vote switching in general and switching to right-wing populist parties in particular. Combining survey data from the CSES with party data from ... view more
Examining the German case in the wider Western European context for the period 1996-2017, the chapter investigates the role of supply and demand factors for vote switching in general and switching to right-wing populist parties in particular. Combining survey data from the CSES with party data from the Manifesto Project, the chapter shows that the growing success of right-wing populist parties, in Germany just as in other Western European countries, was a response to programmatic moves of mainstream center-left and center-right parties to the left. In general, voters’ movements between parties did not follow a symmetric pattern. Changes to parties further left came about as responses to increasing voter-party distances on the socio-economic dimension. In the more recent past, switches to parties further right and, in particular, right-wing populist parties like the German AfD became more frequent, and they were associated with increasing distances on the socio-cultural dimension.... view less
Keywords
voting behavior; en: floating voter oder swing voter?; party; preference; political right; populism; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
AfD; political supply; repositioning; representation gap; right-wing populism; vote switching; Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES), CSES Integrated Module Dataset (IMD), doi:10.7804/cses.imd.2019-10-17; Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR), Version 2019b
Collection Title
The Changing German Voter
Editor
Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger; Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schoen, Harald; Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford
Page/Pages
p. 50-77
ISBN
978-0-19-884751-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0