Hard choices in hard times: Valence voting in Germany (2009) Academic Article

abstract

• Recent studies of voting behavior in Anglo-American elections have demonstrated the clear superiority of the valence model over its rivals for explaining how people cast their ballots. In this paper we test the portability of the valence model in a particularly challenging setting the 2009 German Parliamentary elections. Although there are reasons to think that a spatial model might outperform the valence model, we find that the valence model outperforms it with results similar to previous findings in other political settings. 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

authors

• Whitten, Guy

published proceedings

• ELECTORAL STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

• Clarke, H. D., & Whitten, G. D.

citation count

• 17

complete list of authors

• Clarke, Harold D||Whitten, Guy D

publication date

• January 2013

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Electoral Studies  Journal

keywords

• Economic Voting
• Germany
• Valence Politics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.05.005

start page

• 445

end page

• 451

volume

• 32

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.05.005