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Issue Voting and Party Competition

The Impact of Cleavage Lines on German Elections between 1980-1994

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Authors:
  1. Anna-Sophie Kurella

    1. MZES, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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  • Presents a cleavage-based approach to model voting behavior and party competition
  • Offers a study of German elections between 1980 and 1994
  • Discusses the construction of empirical policy spaces based on survey data
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Contributions to Political Science (CPS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-10

  3. The Evolution of Models of Party Competition

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    Pages 11-25

  4. A Theory of Issue Weighting

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    Pages 27-38

  5. A Model of Voting Behavior and Party Competition

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    Pages 39-61

  6. The Construction of Policy Spaces

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    Pages 63-76

  7. Empirical Application: The Religious Cleavage

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    Pages 77-114

  8. Empirical Application: The Class Cleavage

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    Pages 115-140

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 141-147
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This book examines how social cleavage lines shape issue voting and party competition. Based on a study of German elections between 1980 and 1994, it analyzes whether cleavage group members put more weight on policies that address their personal self-interest than voters who are not affected by the cleavage line. Furthermore, it analyzes the consequences of cleavage groups’ deviating patterns of voting behavior for the formal game of party competition. More concretely, the author asks whether equilibrium positions of parties within the policy space are pulled away from the mean due to the more extreme policy demands of cleavage groups in the electorate. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • MZES, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Anna-Sophie Kurella

About the author

Anna-Sophie Kurella is a researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research at the University of Mannheim, Germany. In 2016, she successfully completed the PhD program in political science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim. Her research is focused on party competition, voting behavior and electoral systems.

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