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The Changing German Voter

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  • Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger
  • Roßteutscher, Sigrid
  • Schoen, Harald
  • Weßels, Bernhard
  • Wolf, Christof

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This concluding chapter discusses changing German voters' behavior in the context of changing parties, campaigns, and media during the period of its hitherto most dramatically increased fluidity at the 2009, 2013, and 2017 federal elections. It summarizes the book's findings on three questions: How did the turbulences that increasingly characterize German electoral politics come about? How did they in turn condition voters' decision-making? How were electoral attitudes and choices affected by situational factors that pertained to the specifics of particular elections? Discussing the consequences of these developments the chapter finds that the ideological and affective polarization of the party system has increased, leading to a dualistic structure that pits the right-wing populist AfD against all other parties. It also shows how the formation of governments under the German parliamentary system of governance gets increasingly difficult. The chapter closes with speculations about the prospects of electoral politics in Germany.

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  • Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger & Roßteutscher, Sigrid & Schoen, Harald & Weßels, Bernhard & Wolf, Christof, 2022. "The Changing German Voter," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 313-336.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:253438
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198847519.003.0015
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    1. Holtdirk, Tobias & Assenmacher, Dennis & Bleier, Arnim & Wagner, Claudia, 2024. "Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Simulate German Voting Behaviour (Working Paper)," OSF Preprints udz28, Center for Open Science.
    2. von der Heyde, Leah & Haensch, Anna-Carolina & Wenz, Alexander, 2023. "Assessing Bias in LLM-Generated Synthetic Datasets: The Case of German Voter Behavior," SocArXiv 97r8s, Center for Open Science.
    3. Petersen, Thies & Denker, Tom & Koppenberg, Maximilian & Hirsch, Stefan, 2024. "Meat Substitute Consumption and Political Attitudes – Testing the Left-Right and Environmental Concerns Frameworks," 2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA 343692, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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