Achim Goerres

University of Duisburg-Essen | uni-due · Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Objective Previous studies on charitable giving have emphasized the importance of socioeconomic status in explaining why individuals choose to donate or not to donate money. Other explanations, such as social capital or local contexts, have also been investigated, but these perspectives are rarely combined and tested against an actual behavioral ou...

Liberal democracy has been under pressure from the success of populist radical right parties, high levels of affective polarization, and an increasing number of citizens who feel left behind and wronged by established political elites. While research on populism and democratic support has much focused on citizens' political discontent, it is unknow...

The measurement of political solidarities and related concepts is an important endeavor in numerous scientific disciplines, such as political and social science research. European surveys, such as the Eurobarometer, frequently measure these concepts for people’s home country and Europe raising questions with respect to the order of precedence. Rese...

For hard-to-survey populations such as ethnic minorities and immigrants, increasing survey response rates is a crucial element of the fieldwork as these populations often show a higher likelihood of not participating compared with the native population. However, no study has so far compared different strategies for mobilisation within this group. U...

This experimental study aims to check and improve the quality of 16 established survey measures of political solidarities and related concepts, such as redistribution and social trust. Political solidarities are defined as one’s willingness to share the costs that result from public redistribution that favours people other than oneself and thus con...

Dieser Beitrag ist eine Bestandsaufnahme der Politikfelder Migrationspolitik (d. h. der staatlichen Regulierung des Zugangs von Nicht-Staatsbürger:innen) und Integrationspolitik (d. h. der staatlichen Regulierung von Rechten und Pflichten Zugewanderter). Beide Politikfbereiche haben aufgrund zunehmender globaler Migrationsbewegungen sowie der Instr...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater need and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures—including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration—call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinning of...

This brief in German summarises the descriptive findings from the Immigrant German Election Study II (IMGES II). The study is a panel election survey between March and November 2021 in Duisburg, Germany. It traces the campaign experiences of four random samples of German citizens: of Turkish descent, Russian German, of any other immigrant backgroun...

This paper experimentally analyses the effects of in-person canvassing and postal reminders on the mobilization of non-respondents for a telephone panel survey in Germany. We compare the response rates among randomly selected individuals who were visited by canvassers and those reminded by an invitation letter. We further conduct multivariate analy...

By reaching a vote share of 12.6 percent in the 2017 federal election, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) ended Germany’s rare status as a Western European polity lacking a significant Populist Radical Right Party (PRRP). Some of this support comes from a group not usually expected to vote for PRRPs: immigrant-origin voters. Recent survey data shows...

This is the comprehensively revised second edition of a volume that was welcomed at its first appearance as ‘the most authoritative survey and critique of the welfare state yet published’. Of its fifty-one chapters, some chapters are brand new; all have been systematically revised, and they are all right up to date. The first seven sections of the...

Immigrants now constitute a sizeable and rapidly growing group among many Western countries' electorates, but analyses of their party preferences remain limited. Theoretically, immigrants' party preferences might be explained with both standard electoral theories and immigrant-specific approaches. In this article, we rigorously test both perspectiv...

Die Teilnahme an Wahlen stellt den bedeutendsten und oftmals auch einzigen Akt der politischen Beteiligung der Bürger/-innen in westlichen Demokratien dar (Brady et al. 1995). Viele Studien zeigen jedoch, dass nicht alle sozialen Gruppen in gleichem Ausmaß an Wahlen teilnehmen (Schäfer et al. 2016; Gallego 2010). Dies ist problematisch: Je geringer...

This chapter introduces the overarching questions of our edited book on the politics of population change worldwide, Global Political Demography (Goerres & Vanhuysse, 2021). How do the political economy and political sociology traits of some population groups relative to others—notably in terms of numerical size and political capacity—affect public...

This paper addresses the theoretical question of how competing models of social and economic solidarity shape patterns of economic governance in periods of economic crisis. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a signal case, we seek to understand how changes in public opinion in response to similar social and economic shocks are informed by deeper ideati...

This note presents preliminary evidence from a postal and face-to-face recruitment field for a telephone survey during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawn from the city register of Duisburg, a metropolis of 500,000 inhabitants, voters eligible for the September 2021 Bundestag elections are the target population. They are stratified into four groups by ono...

In diesem Beitrag werden die Logik und Anwendungsfelder von quantitativen Studien mit einer großen Fallzahl (Groß-N-Studien) in der Politikwissenschaft vorgestellt. Durch eine systematische Analyse mit möglichst vielen Fällen gilt es, ein Modell mit hoher Erklärungskraft, entweder für alle Variablenzusammenhänge oder für einen ausgewählten Teil der...

Was die Politikwissenschaft von der journalistischen, künstlerischen oder amateurhaften Beschäftigung mit Politik u. a. unterscheidet, ist das spezifisch wissenschaftliche Repertoire systematischer Methoden. Dieses Handbuch ist die umfangreichste deutschsprachige Darstellung aktueller Methoden der Politikwissenschaft am Ende des zweiten Jahrzehnts...

Dieses Handbuch beinhaltet Beiträge zu Methodenforschung und -anwendung in der Politikwissenschaft, die von führenden Expertinnen und Experten im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum verfasst sind. Erstens wird dargestellt, welcher Erkenntnisgewinn mit der jeweiligen Methode möglich ist. Zweitens werden Grundprinzipien der jeweiligen Anwendun...

While the explanation of voter turnout is undoubtedly one of the major topics of electoral research, we know relatively little about how to explain the turnout of voters with an immigration background. Two perspectives can be distinguished. The first is that immigrant turnout can be explained by standard theories, i.e. those theories which are also...

Welchen Einfluss haben Emotionen, die ihren Ursprung außerhalb der Politik haben, auf Bundestagswahlen? Auf Wahlkreisebene werden die kausalen Effekte der Spielergebnisse der Ersten Herren-Bundesliga vom Wahlwochenende 2013 auf die Zweitstimmenergebnisse geschätzt. Die Analysen des Difference-in-Differences-Designs im Vergleich zu 2009 zeigen: Die...

This paper synthesizes methodological knowledge derived from comparative survey research and comparative politics and aims to enable researches to make prudent research decisions. Starting from the data structure that can occur in international comparisons at different levels, it suggests basic definitions for cases and contexts, i. e. the main ing...

How do political leaders politicise welfare state “reform pressures”, e.g. unemployment, ageing or globalisation, in election campaigns? Competing expectations range from no politicization at all to a clear and unbiased coupling between pressures and intended policy responses. Eighteen speeches held by prime ministerial candidates at election-year...

This article studies local processes of policy feedback by analysing citizens’ fairness perceptions of public childcare fees in a German town. Employing an experimental vignette study, we uncover complex feedback effects: first, citizens in the study regard a fee level as fair that is close to the actual fee level in the city, suggesting self-reinf...

Welfare states are exposed to a host of cost-inducing ‘reform pressures’. An experiment implemented in Germany, Norway and Sweden tests how various reform pressure frames affect perceptions about the future financial sustainability of the welfare state. Such perceptions have been shown to moderate electoral punishment for welfare reform, but little...

The organisation of the electoral counting process is a complex task that, in Germany, is delegated to local authorities. This article presents novel data from a representative survey of local communities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, to describe and to explain the variation of the ways in which the electoral count for m...

In diesem Beitrag wird zum ersten Mal im „langen“ Längsschnitt die Wahrnehmung eines Konflikts zwischen Alt und Jung zwischen 1978 und 2010 untersucht. Die empirische Analyse eines neuen kumulierten Datensatzes von Querschnittsdaten für die alte und die neue Bundesrepublik bringt Evidenz für zwei zentrale Thesen hervor. Die Strukturspiegelthese bei...

This paper provides an analysis of the political preferences of ethnic Germans who emigrated from the Soviet Union or its successor states. These resettlers (Aussiedler) and their descendants represent the biggest group of immigrant voters in Germany and reveal a rare combination of citizenship, ethnic identity and party support that makes it parti...

Using data from a recent nationwide survey, we provide the first analysis of the supporter base of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) since the party's split and ideological re‐orientation in mid‐2015. Hypotheses are derived from the literature on Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe. Our findings indicate that AfD support—despit...

Report of the first results of the Immigrant German Election Study, German version. Die Immigrant German Election Study ist die erste Wahlstudie, die aufgrund hochwertiger Daten präzise Aussagen zum Wahlverhalten von Deutschen mit Migrationshintergrund bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 macht. Sie wurde durch Forscher der Universitäten Duisburg-Essen und...

First results of the Immigrant German Election Study, English version. The Immigrant German Election Study 2017 is the first electoral study that allows precise estimates about the behaviour of Immigrant Voters at a German federal election. It is funded by the German Research Foundation. The Principal Investigators are Achim Goerres (University of...

Das Handbuch beinhaltet Beiträge zu Methodenforschung, -lehre und -anwendung in der Politikwissenschaft, die von führenden Experten im deutschsprachigen und internationalen Raum verfasst sind. Erstens wird dargestellt, welcher Erkenntnisgewinn mit der jeweiligen Methode möglich ist. Zweitens werden Grundprinzipien der jeweiligen Anwendung erläutert...

This paper has since been published in Ethnic and Migration Studies Immigrants Voters against their will? The oreprint on the first author's webpage. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1503527 This paper presents the first evidence from the Immigrant German Election Study (2017), based on a focus group analysis of ethnic...

Using a recent nation-wide survey, we provide the first analysis of the supporter base of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) since the party’s split and ideological reorientation in mid-2015. Deriving our hypotheses from the literature on Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe, our empirical findings strongly indicate that the elec...

Das Wahlverhalten bei Bundestagswahlen wird durch Emotionen mitbestimmt, die ihren Ursprung zum Teil außerhalb der politischen Sphäre haben und aufgrund blinder Retrospektion durch Wählerinnen und Wähler für die Entscheidung herangezogen werden. In diesem Papier werden die Spielergebnisse der Ersten Fußball-Bundesliga der Herren am Wahlwochenende d...

Electoral Researchers know that the social norm of voting has a strong impact on voting participation. They also know a little about how the perception of this social norm varies across individuals (see Goerres 2010). What remains unclear, is the perception of the social norm of voting in comparison to other social norms that define public actions....

This paper analyses the puzzle of why women express stronger support for income redistribution than men. We use Danish survey data (DLSY-C) that includes information on brothers, sisters and parents and that enable us to distinguish factors within families and between families that lead to gender differences in preferences for redistribution. We fi...

The inverted classroom model (ICM) is an active learning approach that reserves class meetings for hands-on exercises while shifting content learning to the preparatory stage. The ICM offers possibilities for pursuing higher-order learning objectives even in large classes. However, there are contradicting reports about students’ reactions to this k...

How does national crisis management affect the electoral fortunes of coalition governments? Drawing on micro-level data from just before the 2009 federal elections in Germany, this article investigates how voters’ evaluation of specific policies against the global financial crisis affected approval of and voting intentions for the then-governing gr...

The field of risk analysis is divided along various lines. As early as 1988 the Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) by Kasperson et al. was developed to overcome those divisions and to explain the phenomenon of diverging risk perceptions. This paper presents a meticulous examination of the SARF, one of the most cited theoretical framework...

Auf welche Weise erzielen Studierende in politikwissenschaftlichen Großveranstaltungen den besten Lernerfolg? Anstatt die Studierenden in einer klassischen Vorlesung zu passiven Wissenskonsumenten zu machen, ist der „Flipped Classroom“ oder „Inverted Classroom“ eine vielversprechende Alternative, die auf die Aktivierung der Studierenden setzt. Dabe...

This paper is about the puzzle of why women express stronger support for income redistribution than men. The analysis is based on Danish survey data (DLSY-C 2010) including information on brothers, sisters and parents and allowing us to distinguish factors within and between families. The findings are: (1) the baseline gender difference is as large...

What can donation strategies tell us about corporate political preferences, as seen from the perspective of power resource and varieties of capitalism theories? This article tests six hypotheses within an Olsonian framework for corporate donations to political parties with new data from the 100 largest German firms between 1984 and 2005. The findin...

Die intergenerationale Umverteilung im deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaat muss aufgrund der gesellschaftlichen Alterung angepasst werden. In der Folge wird das Generationenverhältnis politisch relevant. Wie nehmen Bürger/ -innen den Sozialstaat und das Generationenverhältnis in der alternden Gesellschaft wahr? Die in diesem Beitrag vorgenommene qualitative...

In den letzten drei Jahrhunderten gab es, langfristig betrachtet, eine kontinuierliche Ausweitung des aktiven Wahlrechts. 1 Immer mehr Gruppen, die ursprünglich ausgeschlossen waren, wurden Teil des Demos und das in immer mehr Ländern. Kinder gehören dabei zu den letzten Gruppen von Menschen, denen systematisch und dauerhaft das Wahlrecht vorenthal...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die polit-ökonomischen Determinanten der Elternbeiträge für kommunale Kindergärten und diskutiert die Steuerungsfunktion und Politisierung der Beiträge. Erstens erklären strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen wie die Ausgaben des Landes für Kinder im Vorschulalter, das Schuldenniveau und die Bevölkerungsdichte die Beitragshöhe gem...

Der moderne Wohlfahrtsstaat ist der Liebling seiner Bürger. Seine Errungenschaften sind Beispiel für den Fortschritt moderner Demokratien in der Verbesserung der Lebensqualität und des Ausgleichs ungleicher Chancen. Gleichzeitig sind einige Strukturen des Wohlfahrtsstaates und vor allem seine Finanzierung nicht mehr in dem bekannten Umfangtragbar.

Influential theories of the welfare state predict policy stability. However, scholars report that significant reforms have occurred in the last decade or so. Also, in spite of apparently stable public support, reforming governments are rarely punished at the polls. This paper aims to understand better how party politicians deal with the fundamental...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die polit-ökonomischen Determinanten der Elternbeiträge für kommunale Kindergärten und diskutiert die Steuerungsfunktion und Politisierung der Beiträge. Erstens erklären strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen wie die Ausgaben des Landes für Kinder im Vorschulalter, das Schuldenniveau und die Bevölkerungsdichte die Beitragshöhe gem...

The positive association between education and voting participation is well-documented in the literature. What has not been studied so far is the variation of the micro-level effect of education across countries and whether the institutional set-up of the political economy might contribute to explaining this variation. The core claim of this chapte...

Dieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Erhebung und Analyse von Gruppendiskussionen in der Politikwissenschaft. Er definiert diese Methode und beschreibt ihre Durchführung. Weiterhin gibt er einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Methodentraditionen der Gruppendiskussionen in der politischen Einstellungsforschung und erläutert die Vor- und Nachtei...

The next challenge for EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe after accession is entry to the Euro-zone, making the dynamics of public opinion towards the Euro crucial for political leaders. We test three perspectives—economic, political and historical–ideational—with individual-level and contextual data from eight countries and conclude th...

Résumé Il est habituel de considérer que les personnes âgées sont en retrait de toute forme de participation protestataire. Les manifestations seraient le seul territoire de la jeunesse. Pourtant, les seniors utilisent toujours davantage un répertoire d’expression démocratique qui dépasse leur seule participation électorale : signatures de pétition...

There is a large and growing literature on welfare state attitudes, most of which is built on random-sample population surveys with standardised closed-question items. This article criticises the existing survey instruments, especially those that are used within the International Social Survey Programme, in a novel approach with focus group data fr...

In order to explain why people differ in their attitudes towards public childcare, we present a theoretical framework that integrates four causal mechanisms: regime socialization, political ideology, family involvement and material self-interest. Estimation results obtained from multivariate regressions on the 2002 German General Social Survey and...

This chapter (in German) traces the development of a senior self-help interest group (Senioren Schutzbund) to a pensioners party, the Greys (die GRAUEN). It unravels the organisational and strategic tensions and complementarities between a civil society organisation and a political party, even under most-likely circumstances. The chapter concludes...