Survey among the Candidates Standing for Office in the German Federal Election of 2002 (German Candidate Study)

Research question/goal: 

From November 2002 until March 2003, we have conducted a survey among all constituency candidates of the parties currently represented in the Bundestag. 51% of the candidates have been participating in our survey.This candidate study is part of an international comparative research project. Largely identical questionnaires have been used in previous surveys among candidates standing for office in parliamentary elections in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and the Netherlands. In each of these countries, a number of questions have also been asked in representative voter surveys.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), MZES
Duration: 
2002 to 2004
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
survey data
Geographic Space: 
Germany; Comparative analyses with The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain possible

Publications

Journal Articles

Wüst, Andreas M., and Philip Stöver (2006): Wahlen in Europa. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 47, issue 2, pp. 289-309. more
Wüst, Andreas M. (2005): Einstellungen von Parlamentskandidaten gegenüber Einwandererminoritäten in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 36, issue 1, pp. 142-152. more

Book Chapters

Roth, Dieter, and Andreas M. Wüst (2006): Abwahl ohne Machtwechsel: Die Bundestagswahl 2005 im Lichte langfristiger Entwicklungen. Pp. 43-70 in: Eckhard Jesse, Roland Sturm (Eds.) Bilanz der Bundestagswahl 2005: Voraussetzungen, Ergebnisse, Folgen. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. more
Schmitt, Hermann, and Andreas M. Wüst (2004): Direktkandidaten bei der Bundestagswahl 2002: Politische Agenda und Links-Rechts-Selbsteinstufung im Vergleich zu den Wählern. Pp. 303-325 in: Frank Brettschneider, Edeltraud Roller (Eds.) Die Bundestagswahl 2002: Analysen der Wahlergebnisse und des Wahlkampfes. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more

Other Publications

Karp, Jeffrey, Hermann Schmitt and Andreas M. Wüst (2003): Electoral Systems and Government Arrangements: Evaluating Preferences of Parliamentary Candidates in New Zealand and Germany. Philadelphia more

Conference Presentations

Wüst, Andreas M. (2005): Rückblick auf die Bundestagswahl 2002. [Bundestagswahlen in Deutschland: Rückblick und Ausblick, Chemnitz, September 06th to September 08th, 2005] more