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Die Schnittstellen zwischen Digitalisierung und ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit in der öffentlichen Verwaltung am Beispiel der Kommunalverwaltung. Eine Analyse der übergreifenden Trends und Themenfelder sowie der Stärken, Schwächen, Chancen und Risiken
Die Künste, die Universität und die Unverfügbarkeit der Welt / The Arts, the University, and the Unattainability of the World
All Gone? Change and Persistence in the Impact of Social Cleavages on Voting Behavior in Germany since 1949
From the perspective of traditional cleavage voting, the chapter explores the long-term changes in voting behavior that have culminated in the electoral turmoil of the last elections. Looking at the trajectories of the two major parties, Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD), it explores how traditional cleavage voting and the parties’ outreach to new groups of voters explain both the rise and the fall of these parties’ electoral support since 1949. Both parties were at first highly successful in mobilizing their core voter segments, i.e., unionized workers and churchgoing Catholics but also in attracting voters from new social groups. However, this initial success in combing the “old” with the “new” did not persist. A counterfactual simulation shows that it is not the shrinking of core voter groups that brought about the two parties’ electoral decline but their inability to retain these groups’ support