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%T Leaving the Space - Opening the Gap? Electoral Effects of Parties' and Voters' Repositioning
%A Weßels, Bernhard
%E Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger
%E Roßteutscher, Sigrid
%E Schoen, Harald
%E Weßels, Bernhard
%E Wolf, Christof
%P 50-77
%D 2022
%I Oxford University Press
%K 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
%@ 978-0-19-884751-9
%~ WZB
%X 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.
%C GBR
%C Oxford
%G en
%9 Sammelwerksbeitrag
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info