Position and parties in ideological space and consequences for the vote in German federal elections since 1980
Research question/goal:
Researchers apply various methods to identify policy or ideological spaces. In this project we tried to identify an ideological space for the German party system by relying on voters' evaluations of parties and leading politicians. The main result of the analysis was that the general left-right dimension could be identified with these data, but the second dimension which was necessary to describe differences in the evaluations was not necessarily linked to ideological or policy differences between parties or politicians.
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Book Chapter
Keynes, Edward
(Eds.)
Pappi, Franz Urban,
Melvin J. Hinich,
Susumu Shikano
(2000):
Ideologie und Wählerverhalten am Beispiel der Bundestagswahl 1998.
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Niedermayer, Oskar,
Bettina Westle
(Eds.)
Pappi, Franz Urban
(2000):
Wahlen und öffentliche Meinung im deutschen Parteienstaat.
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Journal Article
Pappi, Franz Urban
(1999):
Die Abwahl Kohls. Hauptergebnis der Bundestagswahl 1998?.
Zeitschrift für Politik,
46,
1,
pp. 1-29.
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Pappi, Franz Urban,
Gabriele Eckstein
(1999):
Voters' party preferences in multiparty systems and their coalitional and spatial implications: Germany after unification.
Public Choice,
97,
pp. 229-255.
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