Electoral Competition and Decision Making in Multiparty Systems

Research question/goal: 

In this project we try to a) identify the ideological dimensions underlying the party competition in Germany, b) locate voters and parties in this space and c) to assess in a diachronic analysis on whether the space changes over time. For this aim we use the notion of ideological spaces as defined by the american political scientist Enelow, Hinich and Munger. The statistical analyses are based on new techniques of multidimensional scaling developed and pro-grammed by Hinich.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
Universität Mannheim
Duration: 
1999 to 2001
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Survey Data
Geographic Space: 
Germany

Publications

Books

Shikano, Susumu (2002): Die soziale Konstruktion politischer Wirklichkeit. Zur kollektiven Deutung der Bundestagswahl 1998 durch Medien und Bürger. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. [Mannheimer Beiträge zur politischen Soziologie; 5] more