Election Campaigns and Voter Decision-Making in a Multi-Party System - Schoen, Harald;Preißinger, Maria;Steinbrecher, Markus
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This book analyses how people decided to participate in and who to vote for over the course of the 2009 and 2013 German federal election campaigns. Using data from two seven-wave campaign panel surveys collected in the framework of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), it demonstrates that both turnout and vote choice, as well as their attitudinal precursors, underwent considerable individual-level changes in the run-up to these elections. Fixed-effects panel regression analyses show that campaign efforts, controversies and events did influence voting behaviour. These effects were not…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book analyses how people decided to participate in and who to vote for over the course of the 2009 and 2013 German federal election campaigns. Using data from two seven-wave campaign panel surveys collected in the framework of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), it demonstrates that both turnout and vote choice, as well as their attitudinal precursors, underwent considerable individual-level changes in the run-up to these elections. Fixed-effects panel regression analyses show that campaign efforts, controversies and events did influence voting behaviour. These effects were not confined to certain subsections of the electorate, either in terms of political involvement or partisanship. Campaign effects led some party adherents back to the fold, whereas they made others defect. In the German multiparty system, campaigns are capable of making a difference to voting behaviour. This analysis thus casts doubt on the general applicability of the minimal effects model.
Autorenporträt
Harald Schoen ist Politikwissenschaftler an der Universität Mainz.

Prof. Dr. Hans Rattinger, geboren 1950, promovierte 1973 an der Universität Freiburg i. Br. und habilitierte sich dort 1978. Seit 1979 ist er Inhaber eines Lehrstuhls für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Bamberg (Schwerpunkt: Politische Soziologie). Er hielt sich mehrere Jahre lang zu Forschungsaufenthalten und Gastprofessuren in Nordamerika auf (Harvard University, 1974-75, University of Toronto, 1987-88, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., 1988-89 und 1991-94). Er ist Mitbegründer des Arbeitskreises Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW), dessen Vorstand er für viele Jahre angehörte. Seit 2007 gehört er dem Vorstand der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung (DGfW) an. Ebenfalls seit 2007 ist er Mitglied der Zensuskommission der Bundesregierung zur Volkszählung 2011.