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Replication Data for: Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties
No full textThis data replicates the findings in Debus, Marc/Or Tuttnauer. Forthcoming 2024. Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for
government parties. Electoral Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102738
Replication Data for: "Advocates of Climate Action? The Age of Members of Parliament and their Activity in Legislative Debates on Climate Change"
No full textThis data replicates the findings of the manuscript "Does Age Make a Difference? The Effect of MPs’ Age on their Activity in Parliamentary Debates on Climate Change" (Climate Action, forthcoming).
Abstract: Parliamentary debates are an important stage in the process of designing new policies and play an important role for discussing the policy reactions to exogenous events like the Covid-19 pandemic or long-term developments like climate change. We combine theories on vote-seeking strategies of political actors with theoretical accounts that highlight the impact of personal characteristics of politicians and argue that in particular younger Members of Parliament (MPs) should put more emphasis on issues related to climate change and its consequences than older MPs. We test our hypotheses on the basis of an original dataset covering all parliamentary debates that focus on issues related to climate change in the German Bundestag from 2013 until 2021, thus concentrating on a time period when climate change became a highly salient issue among the German public. We find that the age of MPs matters: the younger MPs are, the more speeches they contribute to parliamentary debates related to climate policy
Replication Data for: How Party Competition Shapes Ethnic Parties’ Positions on Migration and Immigration
No full textWhat positions do ethnic parties adopt on issues related to migration and immigration? We argue that, first, the specific characteristics of the party system – that is, if there are further ethnic parties that compete for votes, in particular among the same ethnic group – matter for the policy profile of ethnic parties on immigration policy. Secondly, we expect that the ideological position of an ethnic party should matter for their immigration policy position: ethnic parties with a more right-wing ideological profile should adopt more negative positions on immigration, in particular if they face competition from another ethnic party. We use regression analysis and a manually coded sample of ethnic parties based on the Comparative Manifesto Project to test these assumptions. The empirical analysis provides support for our expectations: ethnic parties take more negative immigration positions if they compete with other parties among the same group of ethnic voters and the more the ethnic parties belong to the right-wing of the ideological spectrum
Replication Data for: "Using party press releases and Wikipedia page view data to analyse developments and determinants of parties’ issue prevalence: Evidence for the right-wing populist ‘Alternative for Germany’
No full textThis data replicates the findings of the manuscript 'Using party press releases and Wikipedia page view data to analyse developments and determinants of parties’ issue prevalence: Evidence for the right-wing populist ‘Alternative for Germany’
The implications of the European financial crisis and parties’ positions on European integration on the outcomes of government formation processes in Southern Europe
No full textThis article examines the determinants of the partisan composition of cabinets formed in the last twenty years in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Assuming that coalition formation processes take place in three-dimensional political spaces, we assess the impact of the ideological heterogeneity of potential coalitions on economic, EU-related, and socio-cultural issues on the chances that a combination of parties finally forms a cabinet. We find that - in line with the intensified role exerted by EU institutions in domestic affairs - parties were more likely to form a coalition government with those actors who share similar positions on an economic and an EU integration dimension
Replication Data for: Populist Radical Parties, Pariahs, and Coalition Bargaining Delays
No full textMost parliamentary democracies have seen a rise of populist radical parties during the past decades. Many countries have also experienced severely delayed government formation processes, with caretaker governments in office for extended periods of time. Are these delays related to the rise of radical parties? We argue that the rise of populist radical parties may prolong the bargaining process, due to that these parties are often treated as pariahs by other parties during election campaigns, which creates a complex bargaining situation after the election. We evaluate this claim by studying 121 government formation processes in the German States from 1990 until 2021, using original data which includes statements made by parties during election campaigns. The findings show that a higher share of seats allocated to parties from the radical right and radical left results in an increasing amount of days until a new government is voted into office. We also find that when a party that has been characterized as being ‘non-coalitionable’ during the election campaign ends up among the negotiating parties, the government formation process is severely delayed. These findings suggest that the rise of populist radical parties may create severe challenges for parliamentary democracy
Replication Data for: Keeping One’s Seat: The Competiveness of MP Renomination in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems
No full textMixed-member electoral systems are supposed to simultaneously produce coherent parties and ensure the representation of local interests. We regard the competitiveness of MPs’ bids for renomination as a crucial indicator of the degree to which MPs are punished when deviating from their principals. Capitalizing on the opportunities offered by mixed-member electoral systems, we develop a theoretical account that makes the competitiveness of the candidate selection process conditional on the characteristics of the electoral system, the candidate selection regime, an MP’s parliamentary behavior, district characteristics and government status. Corroborating our expectations, the analysis of the candidate selection processes in the run-up to the 2013 Bundestag election shows that an increasing degree of ideological deviation from the party line—as expressed in parliamentary speeches—results in a worse position on the party list for opposition MPs, but does not affect the renomination chances of district candidates or of list candidates from the government camp
Replication Data for: Keeping One’s Seat: The Competiveness of MP Renomination in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems
No full textMixed-member electoral systems are supposed to simultaneously produce coherent parties and ensure the representation of local interests. We regard the competitiveness of MPs’ bids for renomination as a crucial indicator of the degree to which MPs are punished when deviating from their principals. Capitalizing on the opportunities offered by mixed-member electoral systems, we develop a theoretical account that makes the competitiveness of the candidate selection process conditional on the characteristics of the electoral system, the candidate selection regime, an MP’s parliamentary behavior, district characteristics and government status. Corroborating our expectations, the analysis of the candidate selection processes in the run-up to the 2013 Bundestag election shows that an increasing degree of ideological deviation from the party line—as expressed in parliamentary speeches—results in a worse position on the party list for opposition MPs, but does not affect the renomination chances of district candidates or of list candidates from the government camp
Die programmatischen Positionen der deutschen Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2017: Ergebnisse einer Expertenbefragung
No full textDie Kurzanalyse berichtet die Ergebnisse einer Expertenumfrage zur programmatischen Ausrichtung der deutschen Parteien im Herbst 2017. Online befragt wurden 93 Politikwissenschaftlerinnen und Politikwissenschaftler. Erhoben wurden die Positionen von acht Parteien auf sechs sachpolitischen Dimensionen sowie die Wichtigkeit dieser Themenbereiche für die Parteien. Im vorliegenden Beitrag prüfen wir zunächst die Reliabilität des Messinstruments und vergleichen dann die Wichtigkeit der Themenbereiche. Neben der Wirtschaftspolitik wird insbesondere die Zuwanderungspolitik als besonders wichtig eingestuft. Hingegen verlieren, im Vergleich zu früheren Umfragen, die Gesellschaftspolitik und die Umweltpolitik an Bedeutung. Die Positionen der etablierten Parteien sind konsistent mit der Erwartung eines mehrdimensionalen Politikraums, in welchem die Freien Demokraten (FDP) eine wirtschaftsliberale (rechte) Position in der Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitik und eine progressive (linke) Position in der Gesellschaftspolitik einnehmen. Die Daten erlauben auch eine Einordnung der im 19. Bundestag erstmals vertretenen Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) nach deren Spaltung im Frühsommer 2015. Die AfD wird von den Experten auf allen Dimensionen als rechtskonservative Partei wahrgenommen wird. Fragebogen und Daten werden online zur Verfügung gestellt (Harvard Dataverse, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/22BGVU), Durchschnittswerte der ermittelten Parteipositionen und parteispezifischen Salienzen der berücksichtigten Politikdimensionen finden sich im Anhang zu diesem Beitrag
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