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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255281803321

Autore

Kurella Anna-Sophie

Titolo

Issue Voting and Party Competition : The Impact of Cleavage Lines on German Elections between 1980-1994 / / by Anna-Sophie Kurella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-53378-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 147 p. 18 illus.)

Collana

Contributions to Political Science, , 2198-7289

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Elections

Political sociology

Welfare economics

Germany—Politics and government

Electoral Politics

Political Sociology

Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy

German Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Evolution of Models of Party Competition -- A Theory of Issue Weighting -- A Model of Voting Behavior and Party Competition -- The Construction of Policy Spaces -- Empirical Application: The Religious Cleavage -- Empirical Application: The Class Cleavage -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition. Based on a study of German elections between 1980 and 1994, it analyzes whether cleavage group members put more weight on policies that address their personal self-interest than voters who are not affected by the cleavage line. Furthermore, it analyzes the consequences of cleavage groups’ deviating patterns of voting behavior for the formal game of party competition. More concretely, the author asks whether equilibrium positions of parties within the policy space are pulled away from the mean due to the more extreme policy demands of cleavage groups in the electorate.