Simon Franzmann- Professor
- Professor (Full) at University of Göttingen
Simon Franzmann
- Professor
- Professor (Full) at University of Göttingen
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In diesem Beitrag analysieren wir die Systemunterstützung in Niedersachsen während der Corona-Pandemie. Die Unterstützung des politischen Systems hat eine große Bedeutung für die Stabilität und Zukunftsfähigkeit der repräsentativen Demokratie, die insbesondere im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie immer wieder als bedroht angesehen und zum Te...
Wie bewerten die Niedersachsen die Corona-Politik und (inwiefern) unterstützen sie die politischen Maßnahmen? Wie stark ist der Demokratierückhalt und wie sehr hängen die Niedersachsen Verschwörungserzählungen an? Der NDM 2021 untersucht Veränderungen wie Konstanten in den Einstellungen zu Politik, Demokratie und Gesellschaft in Niedersachsen währe...
Die Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) ist die jüngste der derzeit im Deutschen →Bundestag vertretenen →Parteien. Nach ihrer Gründung im Frühjahr 2013 scheiterte sie im Sept: 2013 mit 4,7 % der gültigen Wählerstimmen nur knapp am Einzug in den Bundestag. Der AfD gelang ab diesem Zeitpunkt der Einzug ins Europaparlament, in alle Landesparlamente und...
Als die drei großen Meilensteine eines gelungenen Demokratieprozesses gelten das Recht, durch Wahlen Einfluss auf die Regierungspolitik zu nehmen, das Recht auf Repräsentation sowie die Anerkennung einer legitimen Opposition durch die Regierung (Dahl 1966: xiii). Erst die Aussicht der oppositionellen Minderheit, bei künftigen Wählerstimmengewinnen...
Party system polarisation is an essential concept to describe the quality of party competition in comparative politics. Both a very high and a very low level of polarisation are associated with dysfunctional party systems. Polarised competition results in political conflicts, while the opposite dynamic leads to a lack of alternatives for the voter...
In democracy, political participation is seen as the most important way for citizens to communicate information to political decision-makers (Sydney Verba) and the bureaucracy affiliated to them.
Protest plays a special role here among the political and cultural varieties of participation, since it can be seen as a symptom of democratic defects or...
Analyzing the relationships between political parties and voters is one of the central topics of political science. Parties are expected either to be responsive to the demands of their voters or are presumed to have the power to influence voting decisions by structuring the political discourse and thereby competition regarding political issues. The...
Updated data set using MARPOR data (Volkens et al 2018b) calculating party position on:
a left-right super-dimension (lr_smooth)
a gal-tan dimension (soc_smooth)
an economic dimension (eco_smooth)
Includes now also Croatia, Mexico, South Africa, South Corea.
Die Bundestagswahl 2013 hatte für die folgende 18. Legislaturperiode eine ungewöhnliche Situation geschaffen: Mit FDP und AfD gab es zwei starke außerparlamentarische Oppositionsparteien, während die parlamentarische Opposition aus Grünen und Linken mit 20 Prozent der Abgeordnetenstimmen vergleichsweise schwach war. Inwieweit hat die außerparlament...
In this article, we demonstrate that the issue-yield concept is able to predict party strategies of governing and opposition parties at the 2017 German Federal Election. While the electorate of CDU/CSU and SPD favour valence issues, the Greens and the AfD can gain more by concentrating on socio-cultural positional issues. Relying on a unique survey...
The federal elections of 2013 generated an unusual situation for the German party system: a very strong extra-parliamentary opposition. The liberal FDP and the newly emerging AfD, with 4.8 per cent and 4.7 per cent, respectively, of the votes, ended up as the extra-parliamentary opposition, although both parties were ultimately successful in enteri...
What effect does the presence of a coalition of the ideological center have on polarization in party systems? Studies of party positioning demonstrate the impact of a party’s affiliation to the cabinet for its electoral campaigning. In addition, comparative studies of party systems analyzed the effects of the competitive situation between the coali...
“Once we cannot organize opposition in the EU, we are then almost forced to organize opposition to the EU.” (Mair 2007, S. 7; kursive Hervorhebung im Originaltext). Zu diesem skeptischen Urteil kommt Peter Mair bezüglich des EU-Institutionengefüges und seiner Unfähigkeit, widerstreitende Interessen zu integrieren. Er argumentiert, dass systemstütze...
Wie beeinflusst die Wettbewerbskonstellation zwischen Regierungskoalition und Opposition die ideologische Polarisierung im Parteiensystem? Wie wirken sich große Koalitionen, wie aktuell in Deutschland, theoretisch auf die Mechanik von Parteiensystemen aus? Zur Beantwortung dieser Forschungsfragen nehmen wir zunächst eine mikrofundierte Aktualisieru...
Many studies have shown that individual religiosity is related to a Christian Democratic vote. Recently, studies from sociology of religion have reported the rise of holistic spirituality. This paper is the first to examine the effects of holistic spirituality on party choice. In addition, it critically assesses the assertion that conventional reli...
Since the formation of the German AfD in spring 2013, political scientists have discussed whether the AfD can be classified as a populist party. Despite the split of the party in summer 2015 leading to this characterisation becoming uncontested, the question remains whether the AfD was populist from its inception. This article demonstrates that dis...
In politics, we often observe stasis when, at first sight, no reason exists for such policy blockades. In contrast., we sometimes see policy change when one would expect blockades resulting from veto points or countervailing majorities. How can we explain these contradictory results concerning policy stability? In order to solve this theoretical pu...
Welche Funktionen hat eine Parteiendemokratie? Wovon hängt die Qualität ihrer Funktionsweise ab? Diesen grundlegenden widmet sich das vorliegende Kapitel. Hierzu werden zunächst die Konzepte Parteienwettbewerb und Parteiendemokratie definiert. Anschließend werden die zentralen Mechanismen zur Herstellung einer funktionierenden Parteidemokratie erör...
While many studies from analytical sociology apply agent-based modeling to analyze the transformational mechanisms linking the micro to the macro level, we believe that both situational and action formation mechanisms can be unveiled by means of more advanced quantitative methods as well. By focusing on selective exposure to quality newspapers, our...
This data file contains an updated version of left-right party positions calculated according to Franzmann/Kaiser (2006), Franzmann (2009) and Franzmann (2015)
In a recent article in Party Politics, Detlef Jahn proposed an alternative way of generating left–right scores using data from the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP). Despite presenting innovative ideas, the article requires comment and correction. First, Jahn’s claim of a deductive approach is not convincing. He proceeds at least partly inductiv...
Quantitative research in the social sciences making use of individual-level data to form contextual level indices stands at risk of falling prey to both measurement error and aggregation error (Marsh et al. 2009). Measurement error emerges when observed indicators measuring the same construct(s) are summed up to one or more indices without specifyi...
The literature on the partisan foundations of education policies leads to ambiguous expectations with regard to the predominant cleavage structures in party competition on this topic. There is disagreement as to whether leftist or rightist parties are responsible for increasing spending on education, while others claim that educational expansion ha...
Previous studies on the electoral fortunes of extreme right parties (ERPs) have pointed to the importance of variables of party competition for the success – or failure – of ERPs. These studies vary greatly when it comes to describing the political opportunity structure of the extreme right. Apart from their methodological differences, existing stu...
Abstrac: Although party competition is widely regarded as an important part of a working democracy, it is rarely analysed in political science literature. This article discusses the basic properties of party competition, especially the patterns of interaction in contemporary party systems. Competition as a phenomenon at the macro level has to be ca...
In political science, there is rarely discussed how Europeanization indirectly constrains the parties' room to manoeuvre within their national party system. Especially there is not yet analysed, whether the parties of the same famille spirituelle become more similar. The article will fill this gap with an analysis of Christ- and Social democratic p...
Zusammenfassung??Das auf der Salienztheorie aufbauende Konzept des Issue-Ownerships (Budge/Farlie 1983; Petrocik 1996) geht davon aus, dass Parteien in bestimmten Themen ?ber einen spezifischen W?hlerr?ckhalt verf?gen. F?r Mehrparteiensysteme haben Narud und Valen (2001) dar?ber hinaus gezeigt, dass Parteien f?r den Wahlerfolg mit dem richtigen Iss...
Starting from a number of deficiencies in the Comparative Manifestos Project approach to studying left-right policy scales in election programs, an additive model based on the distinction between position and valence issues is proposed. This allows analysis of the policy space in established democracies under the assumption that left and right have...
Beitrag zur Tagung des AK Parteienforschung der DVPW am 24. und 25. September 2009 in Kiel Die aktuelle Version ist ein noch nicht abgeschlossener erster Entwurf. Bitte nur nach Rückfrage beim Autor zitieren oder weiterreichen.
