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Ideological Polarization and Far-Right Parties in Europe
West European party systems have undergone a systematic realignment of party policy positions over the past several decades. The traditional economic cleavage that initially structured many of these systems is...
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Open AccessVirtual Civil Society: The New Frontier of Social Capital?
Although many scholars agree that social interactions within traditional social groups build social capital, there is less consensus on the benefits of virtual interactions for political engagement. Our resear...
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Direct Democracy and Good Governance: Does It Matter?
During the last third of the twentieth century, the American political system underwent a process of democratic expansion and institutional reform that rivaled the populist era reforms early in the century (Cai.....
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Post-Maastricht Blues: The Transformation of Citizen Support for European Integration, 1973–2004
Macroeconomic forces have influenced aggregate citizen support for European integration in the past, but no study analyzes historical data beyond the early 1990s. This gap is lamentable, because public support...
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Vergleichende Wertewandelforschung
Werte definieren unser Leben. Sie beeinflussen unsere Einstellungen und unser Verhalten in jedem Bereich, sei es im Berufsleben oder im Privatleben. Auch die politischen Einstellungen und das politische Verhal...
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Vergleichende Wertewandelforschung
Werte definieren unser Leben. Sie beeinflussen unsere Einstellungen und unser Verhalten in jedem Bereich, sei es im Berufsleben oder im Privatleben. Auch die politischen Einstellungen und das politische Verhal...
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Political Action and the Political Context: A Multi-level Model of Environmental Activism
One of the hallmarks of advanced industrial democracies is the “participatory revolution” that has changed the nature of democratic citizenship in the later half of the twentieth century (Barnes, Kaase et al. ...
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Zwei Gesichter der Demokratie: Repräsentative versus „direkte“ Demokratie
Einer der ungeschriebenen programmatischen Leitsätze der Alternativen Bewegung in Deutschland lautet, daß die deutsche Gesellschaft im Sinne des Aufrufes Willy Brandts „mehr Demokratie wagen“ müsse und die Dem...
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A Divided Electorate?
German reunification brought together two publics from vastly different political worlds. The people of West Germany had matured and prospered under a democratic political system and a social market economy (Sozi...
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Das Ergrauen der Grünen
Auf ihrem Gründungsparteitag in Karlsruhe institutionalisierten die Grünen im Januar 1980 die für das beginnende Jahrzehnt bedeutendste politische Bewegung Westeuropas. In dieser Bewegung fanden die unterschie...
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Two German Electorates?
The democratic revolution in East Germany illustrates the importance of the citizenry in sha** the course of politics. Even if the public’s influence is normally less dramatic and decisive, citizen beliefs h...
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Responsiveness of Parties and Party Systems to the New Politics
In the past decade the dominant theme of comparative electoral research has changed from explaining the stability of partisan alignments to explaining the dynamics of partisan change. Citizens have presented n...
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The Dynamics of Party System Change
In the past decade the dominant theme of comparative electoral research has changed from explaining the stability of partisan alignments to explaining the dynamics of partisan change. Citizens have presented n...
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Wählerwandel und die Abschwächung der Parteineigungen von 1972 bis 1987
Die dominierenden Entwicklungslinien des Parteiensystems der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den sechziger Jahren — das Auftreten der Volksparteien, die Verwischung ideologischer Unterschiede zwischen den Partei...
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The German Voter
For the first three decades of its existence, the West German party system was noted for its growing stability and cohesion (Loewenberg, 1979; Smith, 1986). Fourteen parties competed in the first national elec...
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Konflikte und Koalitionen im Parteiensystem
Im Parteiensystem der Bundesrepublik haben sich die Muster und Strukturen von Parteien und Wählern in den vergangenen 25 Jahren erheblich gewandelt. Viele dieser Veränderungen legen die Vermutung nahe, daß sic...
