dc.contributor.author | ZITTEL, Thomas | |
dc.contributor.author | GSCHWEND, Thomas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-02T16:49:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-02T16:49:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.citation | West European politics, 2008, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 978-1003 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0140-2382 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1743-9655 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/45128 | |
dc.description | Published online: 01 September 2008 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Constituency campaigns are important phenomena for students of political parties,
voting behaviour as well as political communication. These research communities
perceive constituency campaigns as parts of centralised high-tech campaigns aiming in
strategic ways at the efficient mobilisation of voters. We propose in this paper an
alternative understanding of constituency campaigns using the case of the German
parliamentary elections in 2005 to empirically test this understanding. We perceive
constituency campaigns as phenomena signalling a relative independence of individual
candidates from the national party campaign. We label this phenomenon individualised
campaigning. We argue that individualised campaigning is driven among others by
electoral incentives. We test this hypothesis with regard to the German mixed-member
electoral system and on the basis of a survey of all candidates standing for election in
2005. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | West European politics | en |
dc.title | Individualized constituency campaigns in mixed-member electoral systems : candidates in the 2005 German elections | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/01402380802234656 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 31 | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 978 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 1003 | en |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | en |