Parties and Voters at the 2013 German Federal Election

Robert Rohrschneider is Sir Robert Worcester Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, USA. Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is chairperson of the German Society for Electoral Research (DGfW) and one of the principal investigators of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES).

• Introduction: Parties and Voters at the 2013 German Federal Election Robert Rohrschneider and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck 1. Social Cleavages and Electoral Behaviour in Long-Term Perspective: Alignment without Mobilisation? Martin Elff and Sigrid Roßteutschern 2. An ‘Angela Merkel Effect’? The Impact of Gender on CDU/CSU Voting Intention between 1998 and 2013 Marc Debus 3. Another Dog that didn’t Bark? Less Dealignment and more Partisanship in the 2013 Bundestag Election Kai Arzheimer 4. Merkwürdig oder nicht? What Economic Voting Models and the 2013 Bundestag Elections Have to Say about Each Other Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten 5. Party Positions about European Integration in Germany: An Electoral Quandary? Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield 6. Instrumental and Expressive Coalition Voting: The Case of the FDP in the 2009 and 2013 German Federal Elections Sascha Huber 7. The ‘Alternative für Deutschland in the Electorate’: Between Single-Issue and Right-Wing Populist Party Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck 8. If You Don’t Know Me by Now: Explaining Local Candidate Recognition Heiko Giebler and Bernhard Weßels 9. Correct Voting at the 2013 German Federal Election: An Analysis of Normatively Desirable Campaign Effects Ben Christian