03344nam 22006255 450 991025528180332120200630135501.03-319-53378-910.1007/978-3-319-53378-0(CKB)3710000001109582(DE-He213)978-3-319-53378-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4822989(PPN)259469882(EXLCZ)99371000000110958220170315d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIssue Voting and Party Competition The Impact of Cleavage Lines on German Elections between 1980-1994 /by Anna-Sophie Kurella1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (XVI, 147 p. 18 illus.) Contributions to Political Science,2198-72893-319-53377-0 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.Contributions to Political Science,2198-7289ElectionsPolitical sociologyWelfare economicsGermany—Politics and governmentElectoral Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911070Political Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22170Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W31020German Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911190Elections.Political sociology.Welfare economics.Germany—Politics and government.Electoral Politics.Political Sociology.Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.German Politics.321.8Kurella Anna-Sophieauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut943458MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910255281803321Issue Voting and Party Competition2129347UNINA