A Heterogeneous Electorate

Dr. Romain Lachat

doi:10.5771/9783845204895

Summary

Der Band beinhaltet eine detaillierte Analyse der Veränderungen im Wahlverhalten seit den späten 1960er Jahren in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Dabei stellt sich heraus, dass das Phänomen des Wechselwählers zunimmt bzw. Entscheidungen zunehmend erst kurz vor der Wahl getroffen werden. Die Untersuchung analysiert die Gründe für dieses Verhalten und liefert so wichtige Hinweise zum generellen Verständnis gegenwärtigen Wahlverhaltens.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-3015-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-0489-5
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Studien zur Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung
Volume: 7
Language: English
Pages: 234
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 11 Romain Lachat
Figures No access Pages 12 - 12 Romain Lachat
Tables No access Pages 13 - 16 Romain Lachat
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1. Plan of the book No access Romain Lachat
1. 1. The social-structural model of voting choice No access Pages 25 - 29 Romain Lachat
  2. The Michigan model No access Pages 29 - 32 Romain Lachat
2. 1. The weakening of old cleavages and the rise of new issues No access Pages 32 - 38 Romain Lachat
  2. Cognitive mobilization No access Pages 38 - 41 Romain Lachat
  3. Partisan decline No access Pages 41 - 42 Romain Lachat
  4. The modernization of electoral campaigns No access Pages 42 - 44 Romain Lachat
3. The consequences of dealignment No access Pages 44 - 46 Romain Lachat
1. Memory as an associative network No access Pages 47 - 50 Romain Lachat
2. Political schemas No access Pages 50 - 51 Romain Lachat
3. 1. Sophistication and the structure of belief systems No access Pages 51 - 56 Romain Lachat
  2. Sophistication, knowledge, and political schemas No access Pages 56 - 57 Romain Lachat
  3. The measurement of political sophistication No access Pages 57 - 58 Romain Lachat
4. 1. Dual-process models of opinion formation No access Pages 58 - 61 Romain Lachat
  2. Sophistication, heuristics, and motivation No access Pages 61 - 64 Romain Lachat
  3. Campaign intensity No access Pages 64 - 65 Romain Lachat
5. Conclusion No access Pages 65 - 66 Romain Lachat
1. Social change and political cleavages No access Pages 67 - 69 Romain Lachat
2. 1. Defining and measuring social classes No access Pages 69 - 72 Romain Lachat
  2. The transformation of the class structure No access Pages 72 - 76 Romain Lachat
  3. The voting behavior of social classes No access Pages 76 - 82 Romain Lachat
3. The religious cleavage No access Pages 82 - 86 Romain Lachat
4. 1. Measuring the strength of cleavages No access Pages 86 - 90 Romain Lachat
  2. Evolution of cleavage strength in Germany No access Pages 90 - 94 Romain Lachat
  3. The transformation of cleavages in Switzerland No access Pages 94 - 96 Romain Lachat
5. Party identification No access Pages 96 - 101 Romain Lachat
6. Index of predisposition strength No access Pages 101 - 105 Romain Lachat
7. Conclusion No access Pages 105 - 106 Romain Lachat
1. Timing of the voting decision No access Pages 107 - 110 Romain Lachat
2. 1. The evolution of volatility in the German electorate No access Pages 110 - 116 Romain Lachat
  2. Electoral volatility in Switzerland No access Pages 116 - 117 Romain Lachat
3. Split-ticket voting No access Pages 117 - 120 Romain Lachat
4. 1. Hypotheses and operationalization No access Pages 120 - 123 Romain Lachat
  2. Cognitive mobilization and party identification No access Pages 123 - 124 Romain Lachat
  3. Volatility, time of decision, and split-ticket voting in Germany No access Pages 124 - 132 Romain Lachat
  4. Explaining the consequences of electoral change in Switzerland No access Pages 132 - 139 Romain Lachat
5. Conclusion No access Pages 139 - 141 Romain Lachat
1. Selection of variables and baseline model No access Pages 142 - 152 Romain Lachat
2. Analyzing attitude stability No access Pages 152 - 154 Romain Lachat
3. The impact of expertise and predisposition strength on attitude stability No access Pages 154 - 162 Romain Lachat
4. A multivariate analysis of attitude stability No access Pages 162 - 166 Romain Lachat
5. Conclusion No access Pages 166 - 167 Romain Lachat
1. Model specification No access Pages 168 - 171 Romain Lachat
2. The impact of attitude changes No access Pages 171 - 175 Romain Lachat
3. Activation and conversion effects No access Pages 175 - 182 Romain Lachat
4. Conclusion No access Pages 182 - 184 Romain Lachat
1. Model specification No access Pages 185 - 187 Romain Lachat
2. Germany No access Pages 187 - 195 Romain Lachat
3. Switzerland No access Pages 195 - 198 Romain Lachat
4. Conclusion No access Pages 198 - 200 Romain Lachat
1. How strong is electoral dealignment? No access Pages 201 - 204 Romain Lachat
2. What explains the instability of party preferences? No access Pages 204 - 208 Romain Lachat
3. The voting decision process No access Pages 208 - 210 Romain Lachat
4. Some implications for future research No access Pages 210 - 212 Romain Lachat
1. Description of data files No access Pages 213 - 215 Romain Lachat
2. Measuring political expertise No access Pages 215 - 218 Romain Lachat
3. Timing of the voting decision No access Pages 218 - 220 Romain Lachat
4. Party identification No access Pages 220 - 222 Romain Lachat
References No access Pages 223 - 234 Romain Lachat