Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/253438 
Year of Publication: 
2022
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[Editor:] Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger [Editor:] Roßteutscher, Sigrid [Editor:] Schoen, Harald [Editor:] Weßels, Bernhard [Editor:] Wolf, Christof [Title:] The Changing German Voter [ISBN:] 978-0-19-884751-9 [Publisher:] Oxford University Press [Place:] Oxford [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 313-336
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
German electoral behavior
party system development
electoral volatility
ideological polarization
affective polarization
government formation
government coalitions
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The open access publication of the edited volume "The Changing German Voter" was financially supported by the Leibniz Association’s Open Access Publication Fund for Monographs, the University of Mannheim, and the DGfW.
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