New political parties through the voters' eyes

Abstract: Scholars mainly studied the formation of political parties on the macro-level, but to explain the conditions of successful party establishment we need to understand the motivational underpinnings of voting for a new party on the individual level. Using cross-national voter surveys and long-term panel data from Germany (2005-2013) and the Netherlands (1998-2002), this study contrasts the implicit assumptions about voter behaviour of equilibrium- and protest-based theories on party emergence. Although proximity to a new party matters, the findings do not support the equilibrium perspective’s tenet that new parties gain votes from citizens whose views were not represented in the preceding election. Moreover, political discontent was found a fertile soil for new parties to gain electoral support, but the relationship between discontent and voting is more complex than theoretically suggested. These findings on individual voter behaviour may inform further theoretical work on the success

Weitere Titel
Neue politische Parteien aus Sicht des Wählers
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Preprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: West European Politics (2019)

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2019
Urheber
Wuttke, Alexander

DOI
10.1080/01402382.2019.1603940
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62596-0
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
Letzte Aktualisierung
25.03.2025, 13:48 MEZ

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Beteiligte

  • Wuttke, Alexander

Entstanden

  • 2019

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