New political parties through the voters’ eyes


Wuttke, Alexander


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2019.1603940
URL: https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/49923
Additional URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-499238
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2020
The title of a journal, publication series: West European Politics
Volume: 43
Issue number: 1
Page range: 22-48
Place of publication: Abingdon
Publishing house: Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 0140-2382 , 1743-9655
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Social Sciences > Politische Wissenschaft, Politische Psychologie (Schoen 2014-)
Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Mannheim Centre for European Social Research - Research Department B
License: CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 320 Political science
Keywords (English): Party systems , new parties , Germany , panel data , populism , voting behaviour
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 successful establishment of new political parties.
Translation of the title: Neue politische Parteien aus Sicht des Wählers (German)

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