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Contrasting first- and second-order electoral behaviour: determinants of individual party choice in European and German Federal elections

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  • Giebler, Heiko
  • Wagner, Aiko

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In contrast to national elections, both parties and voters are assumed to think that ‘less is at stake’ in European elections: Campaigns are less intense, turnout is lower, and citizens are more inclined to ‘vote with their hearts’. The latter should be reflected in differing rationales of voting – party choice should not be based on identical determinants in national and European elections. However, this hypothesis has not been sufficiently tested and most of the research is based on the analysis of aggregated data while causal explanations are located on the micro level. This paper compares vote functions of individuals in regard to the 2009 European Parliament election as well as the 2009 German Federal election. Using data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), comparison of explanatory models shows that party choice on both levels is neither fundamentally different nor does it fit into the pattern of second-order electoral behaviour.

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  • Giebler, Heiko & Wagner, Aiko, 2015. "Contrasting first- and second-order electoral behaviour: determinants of individual party choice in European and German Federal elections," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 24(1), pages 46-66.
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    1. Katjana Gattermann & Claes H De Vreese, 2017. "The role of candidate evaluations in the 2014 European Parliament elections: Towards the personalization of voting behaviour?," European Union Politics, , vol. 18(3), pages 447-468, September.
    2. Camille Kelbel & Virginie Van Ingelgom & Soetkin Verhaegen, 2016. "Looking for the European Voter: Split-Ticket Voting in the Belgian Regional and European Elections of 2009 and 2014," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(1), pages 116-129.
    3. Krause, Werner & Spittler, Marcus & Wagner, Aiko, 2017. "Attraktion und Repulsion. AnhängerInnen rechts- und linkspopulistischer Parteien im europäischen Vergleich," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 45(Sonderban), pages 106-137.
    4. Krause, Werner & Wagner, Aiko, 2021. "Becoming part of the gang? Established and nonestablished populist parties and the role of external efficacy," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 27(1), pages 161-173.
    5. Katjana Gattermann & Claes De Vreese & Wouter van der Brug, 2016. "Evaluations of the Spitzenkandidaten: The Role of Information and News Exposure in Citizens’ Preference Formation," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(1), pages 37-54.
    6. Hajo G. Boomgaarden & David Johann & Sylvia Kritzinger, 2016. "Voting at National versus European Elections: An Individual Level Test of the Second Order Paradigm for the 2014 European Parliament Elections," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(1), pages 130-144.
    7. Dorian Alt & Erik Brandes & David Nonhoff, 2023. "First Order for some. How Different Forms of Politicization Motivated Voters in the 2019 European Parliamentary Election," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(2), pages 362-378, March.

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