PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift

This paper evaluates the effect of an appointed commissioner for developing consolidation strategies for local public finances. So far, the evaluation concentrates on single-case studies of rare deployments of such a commissioner. The synthetic...

Do local contextual factors influence unconventional political participation? As this question has been ignored by previous studies, this work explores economic, sociogeographical and cultural factors of unconventional participation (joining...

In the face of growing migration, the idea that voting rights should be independent of formal citizenship has become more and more attractive. However, critics object that the dissociation of political rights from formal membership in the polity...

Is the success of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) a protest phenomenon or the mobilization of a political potential? We test both hypotheses on the grounds of the German National Election Study 2013. The analysis reveals that disenchantment...

We analyze effects of physical appearance on electoral results. Existing work has so far mostly focused on direct effects of perceived attraction and paid little attention to both competence and likability and to the potential conditioning of...

During the last decades the dichotomy of a masculine public sphere and a femi- nine private sphere as well as the strict heteronormative character of the public have blurred. However, these changes have rarely been theorized in feminist political...