[20.] The West German Bundestag Elections of 1953[1953]

2021 ◽  
pp. 574-598
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
German Bundestag

scholarly journals Wer ist der ideale Kandidat? Auswahlkriterien bei der Kandidatenaufstellung zum Deutschen Bundestag

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-83
Author(s):  
Malte Cordes ◽  
Daniel Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Candidate Selection ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Ideal Candidate ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Selection For ◽  
German Bundestag

Before an election takes place, the party members select their parliamentary candidates . Their nomination decisions depend on their vision of an ideal candidate . Based on the IParl survey of party members participating in the candidate selection for the 2017 German Bundestag elections we are able to investigate these preferences . As we see, there is neither a common ideal among all participants, nor are there any distinctly different groups . Differentiating between district and state level these variations are less distinct than between the different parties . We could also show that competitors seem to perceive demands from their electors at least partially different . Presumably those aspirants who are better at anticipating their electors’ complex preferences might have better chances in the intra-party nomination process .

A Rational Calculus of Voting Considering Coalition Signals: The 2005 German Bundestag Election as an Example

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Linhart
Keyword(s):  
Party Systems ◽  
Vote Share ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Legislative Outcomes ◽  
German Bundestag

This article extends the calculus of rational voting (Riker & Ordeshook, 1968) by considering the coalition building process and the legislative process (cf. Austen-Smith & Banks, 1988) in multi-party systems. Comparing preferences on coalitions and their resulting legislative outcomes instead of party preferences, I create preference profiles of voters on coalitions and estimate the probability that a coalition forms, given the parties' coalition signals, and an expected electoral result. I illustrate the results of this rational calculus for the German Bundestag elections 2005 as a political map. Furthermore, this calculus allows the identification of coalition signals which raise and reduce a party's vote share.

New medium, old strategies? Comparing online and traditional campaign posters for German Bundestag elections, 2013–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-388
Author(s):  
Dennis Steffan ◽  
Niklas Venema
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Negative Campaigning ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Minor Parties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
German Bundestag

Election campaigns in hybrid media systems are characterised by the integration of newer and older media. With the rise of social media platforms, newer tools of political communication emerge, such as online campaign posters, complementing older tools, such as traditional campaign posters. This raises the question whether the newer medium online campaign posters replicates strategies of professionalised political communication (i.e. personalisation, de-ideologisation and negative campaigning), and whether major and minor parties differ in their use of these strategies in online campaign posters. Against this background, we conducted a quantitative content analysis of visual and textual elements of online campaign posters and traditional campaign posters ( N = 1,069) for the 2013 and 2017 German Bundestag elections. The results indicate that online campaign posters are significantly more negative than traditional campaign posters. Moreover, the use of online campaign posters tends to moderate the inter-party competition in the social media environment.

scholarly journals Personalised, de-ideologised and negative? A longitudinal analysis of campaign posters for German Bundestag elections, 1949–2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Steffan ◽  
Niklas Venema
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Negative Campaigning ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
Western Democracies

Faced with fundamental societal changes such as partisan dealignment and mediatisation, political parties in Germany as well as in other Western democracies professionalise their communication. Drawing on the concept of professionalisation of political communication, the present study investigates changes of campaign posters for German Bundestag elections from 1949 until 2017 with regard to personalisation, de-ideologisation and negative campaigning. By using a quantitative content analysis of visual and textual elements of campaign posters ( N = 1,857) and logistic regression analyses, we found an increase in visual personalisation and in visual ideologisation. However, no upwards trend was detected regarding negative campaigning across the four phases of political campaigning. Moreover, we found no empirical evidence for an increasing textual personalisation or textual de-ideologisation. All in all, the findings of this longitudinal analysis indicate an increasing visualisation of political communication.

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