englischThis book is dedicated to the relationship between information, elections and democracy. Looking at Germany, but also at other countries, the authors focus primarily on citizens, their attitudes, interests and voting decisions. The role of contexts is also examined, in particular information [...]

This book explores the impact of politicians’ expressions of anger on viewers. Electoral candidates may alter their emotional behaviour strategically during election campaigns as a means of gaining voters’ support. Hence, this study investigates empirically how expressions of anger affect leadership [...]

englischThe central aim of the book consists in the description and explanation of the developments within the campaigns of the CDU and the SPD for the federal elections of 1957, 1961 and 1965. Thereby particular attention is paid to potential differences in terms of timing with regard to the [...]

englischThis book analyses how people decided to participate in and who to vote for over the course of the 2009 and 2013 German federal election campaigns. Using data from two seven-wave campaign panel surveys collected in the framework of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), it [...]

englischVoters differ in their political preferences as well as in the importance they assign to the different criteria they use when deciding who to vote for. The latter aspect was widely disregarded for a long time, but this heterogeneity can and should be incorporated into existing explanatory [...]

englischAt the beginning of the 21st century, German-American relations resemble a rollercoaster ride. The terror attacks of 9/11 led to a wave of solidarity among German citizens. While America’s reputation dwindled due to the war in Iraq, the election of Barack Obama led to waves of enthusiasm.

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englischThe volume investigates the relationship between the economy and political behavior as well as attitudes in the light of the economic crisis from different perspectives. The main result indicates that the saying „It’s the economy, stupid!“ has to be refined: there is NO TYPICAL economic [...]

englischResearchers using panel data usually assume that the act of measuring respondents’ attitudes and behaviors has no effect on the attributes being measured and thus can be interpreted as real change. Recently, this assumption has been put into question. However, there is still a lot of [...]

englischDemographic change holds Germany firmly in its grip. The consequences of this development are diverse and increasingly have come into the focus of political debates and scientific research over recent years. This book deals with one aspect of demographic change which as of yet has received [...]

Dieser Band befasst sich mit der Messung und der theoretischen Interpretation des Zeitpunkts der Wahlentscheidung. Hierzu wird eine Theorie des Entscheidungsprozesses entwickelt, die eine Synthese von bislang disparaten Forschungsergebnissen herstellt.Zwei Ergebnisse sind hervorzuheben: Erstens [...]