Linking voters, parties, and candidate communication : strategic ambiguity in German elections

Nyhuis, Dominic

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/39454
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-394545
Dokumenttyp:	Dissertation
Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Mannheim
Hochschule:	Universität Mannheim
Gutachter:	Gschwend, Thomas
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:	1 August 2014
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften > Politische Wissenschaft, Quantitative Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden (Gschwend 2007-) Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > GESS - CDSS (SOWI)
Fachgebiet:	320 Politik
Normierte Schlagwörter (SWD):	Bundestagswahl , Wahlsystem , Deutschland / Bundestag , Abgeordneter , Politische Kommunikation
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):	Germany , Federal election , Electoral system , Candidates , Political communication
Abstract:	The study investigates the strategic communication of candidates during the German federal election of 2013. Based on the competing principals account of political behavior, the work posits that the position-taking of nominal candidates is subject to cross-pressures from party headquarters and policy preferences in the district. Relying on evidence from a candidate-level vote advice application, the local policy preferences are recovered from user inputs. Substantively, the study finds that even candidates in the mixed electoral system of Germany are subject to the cross-pressures from competing principals — they are most likely to take an ambiguous policy position if the preferences of party headquarters and the electoral district diverge.