Spatial Realignment of German Voters and Germany's Regional Cleavage: The Case of the Green Party in the 2019 European Elections
| Autor: | Viatkin, Ilia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Politikwissenschaft
Political science German Party System Green Party Regional Cleavage Voters' Realignment ZA5270: Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften ALLBUS 2018 Data File Version 2.0.0 https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13250 politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture Europawahl Die Grünen Wahlergebnis Bundesrepublik Deutschland alte Bundesländer neue Bundesländer regionaler Unterschied Wahlverhalten Wechselwähler Parteiensystem Parteipolitik election to the European Parliament Greens election result Federal Republic of Germany old federal states New Federal States regional difference voting behavior en: floating voter oder swing voter? party system party politics 10500 |
| Zdroj: | Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science, 45, 31-58 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article |
| ISSN: | 2414-6633 |
| DOI: | 10.22151/politikon.45.2 |
| Popis: | This article seeks to explain the increase in the German Green party votes in 2019 European elections through the East-West cleavage. Using the 2018 German General Social Survey data, it identifies and compares the Green Party electorate in both regions in terms of conventional and supposed determinants of Green voting. Results of the multivariate analysis equally support both models, indicating left-wing voters as the main source of the Greens’ electoral gains across Germany. However, while in the East the Greens were supported primarily by the electorate of the Social Democratic party dissatisfied with the activity of this party, Western Germans exhibited a trend of left-leaning voters’ backlash against the rise of the radical right party Alternative for Germany through Green voting. This realignment is explicated by the persistent specifics of German regional party politics combined with intrinsic value distinctions of their dwellers, and recent shifts in party-voters ties. |
| Databáze: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
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