The 2014 European Election in Germany: Do Eurosceptics Benefit from Low Turnout Rates?

Datum: 
Dienstag, 27. Mai 2014
Medium: 
Blog Making

"To explain the good score of the AfD, political commentators in Germany pointed the role of low turnout. According to them, this low turnout benefited far-right and Eurosceptic parties in all European countries. During the campaign, the mainstream parties also used this claim to encourage their supporters to vote. This hypothesis constitutes now the main explanation of the electoral success of the AfD (and other similar parties in other European countries). Is it really the case though? In this blog entry, I offer a first test of this hypothesis."

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