Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
The Changing Context and Outlook of Voting

Pp. 3-14 in: Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (Eds.): Voters on the Move or on the Run?. 2014. Oxford: Oxford University Press

The chapter discusses the challenges for electoral research facing increasingly fragmentation of voters’ behavior. It develops a framework identifying two dimensions as the core problem—increasing heterogeneity of voting and increasing heterogeneity of the context of voting. The chapter places the research questions dealt with in the book into this framework.