Norbert Kersting
Biographic Data
| ID | 308089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norbert Kersting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kersting |
| SIGNATURE | KERSTING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1871-6555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Citizens’ Trust in the European Union During Crisis and Conflicts Across 10 Countries
The increasing support for populism is indicative of a profound crisis in European societies. The prevailing cultural narrative posits that support for populist parties, particularly those of a right-wing orientation, is predominantly a reaction to the erosion of nationalistic and religious identities. A growing critique of supranational institutions became visible in some countries. In Europe, populist parties are growing, but Euroscepticism see…
A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space
What makes populist parties successful? What is the contribution of populist ideas to their appeal? How do they affect a voter’s choice? In this article, we treat populist orientation as just another dimension of spatial competition alongside economic and cultural dimensions, and assess its influence on vote choice. Using survey data from nine countries, we place voters and parties along the populist, economic, and cultural dimensions and estimat…
Participatory budgeting under martial law: The case of Ivano-Frankivsk
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data
This article investigates the effectiveness of three different two-dimensional models in representing political competition using user data from the EU and I Voting Advice Application for the EU elections from 2009 to 2019. We test different ways of aggregating economic, cultural, and European integration issues to determine which configuration best captures voter preferences across all member states. Our findings show that combining economic and…
How congruent are populist parties with their constituencies? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament Elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden
Crowdsourced Monitoring von Wahlen in Afrika
Crowdsourcing durch die Zivilgesellschaft hat in den letzten Jahren erheblich an Zugkraft gewonnen und sich auch als effektives Instrument zum Monitoring der Integrität von Wahlen in jungen und sich entwickelnden Demokratien erwiesen. Von Crowdsourcing im modernen digitalen Zeitalter wird zunehmend erwartet, dass es nicht nur die Beziehungen zwischen Politikern und Wählern verändert, sondern auch die Zivilgesellschaft einbindet und befähigt, bei …
Precarity and populism: Explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity
Precarity is often evoked in discussions about the rise of populism, but there is a dearth of systematic operationalization of the sociological concept of insecurity in populist research. This study fills this gap by theorizing about and empirically linking work-related and financial insecurity to populist outlook and voting in ten European countries. We propose a theoretical framework that links insecurity, respectively, to populist attitudes (s…
The integrity of digital policies and political participation in Uganda: A tale of dissent and digital repression
In response to an unresponsive government, citizens in Uganda have reacted by constructing their own spaces of participation from below. These bottom-up participatory spaces help citizens to escape the repression of regimes and counter their elimination by political representatives and administrative elites from decision-making processes. However, the participatory instruments from below seemingly threaten the regime's survival and the elites’ hi…
Soziale Ungleichheit und quartiersbezogene politische Partizipation
Wahlen, Referenden, aber auch neue deliberative Beteiligungsinstrumente scheinen nur in begrenzter Maße beteiligungsferne, marginalisierte Bevölkerungsgruppen miteinzubeziehen. Die sozioökonomische Spaltung der Gesellschaft bewirkt eine partizipative Spaltung. Das Forschungsprojekt verändert die Perspektive und untersucht individuelle Erfolgsgeschichten. Wann gelingt es marginalisierte Gruppen (prekäre Beschäftigung, Altersarmut, Migration, allei…
Konflikte als Hoffnungsträger. Auseinandersetzungen um die postmigrantische Stadtgesellschaft
Aktuell werden Konflikte in der Migrationsdebatte neu bewertet. So wird ihr vermehrtes Auftreten als Zeichen für „gelingende Integration“ interpretiert. Konflikte sind hier als das Verbindungsband konzipiert, das offene, plurale Gesellschaften zusammenhalten kann. Zugetraut wird den Konflikten auch, dass sie einen Stimulus setzen für die demokratische Weiterentwicklung der als postmigrantisch bezeichneten Gesellschaft. Unser Artikel betrachtet in…
Direct democracy integrity and the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey: A new research instrument
In some countries, direct democracy is used successfully to increase legitimacy of decisions or mitigate conflict, and in other countries, authoritarian leaders seem to instrumentalize and manipulate referendums. How can referendum integrity be analyzed? This article presents an empirical instrument to evaluate the variety and integrity of referendums. This encompasses criteria for the analysis of direct democracy. First, we develop a referendum …
Politikwissenschaft und die digitale Gesellschaft
AutorInnenverzeichnis
Online Partizipation: Evaluation und Entwicklung - Status quo und Zukunft
Inhalt
Urbane Innovation
Neue Machtansprüche in der Kommunalpolitik: Die Einstellungen von Ratsmitgliedern zu Bürgerbeteiligung
Politische Online-Beteiligung im internationalen Vergleich. Eine Revitalisierung politischer Beteiligung
Ehre Oder Amt?: Qualifizierung Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements Im Kulturbereich
Direct Democracy in Constitutional Processes: The South African Plebiscite of 1992
Referendums are often seen as the final step to legitimizing a new constitution. In some cases these plebiscites are used to start the negotiation process. Who initiates the plebiscite and for what reason? Does a referendum strengthen certain actors or weaken their position in further negotiation processes? In this article the last whites-only South African plebiscite in 1992 is used as a case study. Confronted with a strong and growing oppositio…
Local governance reform in global perspective
Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective
Local Governance Reforms in Africa
At a time when the democratic governance resurgence of the 90s in developing countries is giving way to the disappointment and disillusionment at the retreat of democracy, it is opportune that the relationship between democratic and local governance is being given serious consideration by the International Association of Political Science globally (Diamond 2008). For quite sometime now, some of us had argued that democracy cannot be consolidated …
Voting Behaviour in the 2009 South African Election
This article analyses voting behaviour in the South African election of 2009 and draws conclusions regarding the significance of party affiliation and issue-based voting in South Africa. It demonstrates the low level of voter registration and voter turnout. In the 2009 election the Independent Electoral Commission had problems with electoral management for the first time; however, it was able to prevent electoral violence. During the campaign the…
Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft: Zentrale Problemfelder und Forschungsperspektiven
Die Bedeutung der Digitalisierung für Politik und Gesellschaft ist ein hoch aktuelles Themenfeld, das immer stärker auch politikwissenschaftlich beforscht und gelehrt wird. Die Beiträge des Bandes versammeln dazu programmatische Positionen, welche zentrale Aspekte und Perspektiven der sozialwissenschaftlichen Digitalisierungsforschung darstellen und diskutieren. Hierzu zählen u.a. Forschungsfelder aus den Bereichen Partizipations- und Parteienfor…
Sport and National Identity: A Comparison of the 2006 and 2010 Fifa World CupsTM
Big sport events may strengthen negative nationalism or alternatively fuel positive patriotism. The 2006 FIFA WorldTM Cup held in Germany enabled Germans to express certain types of identities. Given Germany's history, there is the question whether this was accompanied with xenophobia. In South Africa, the 2010 FIFA World CupTM is in part held to transcend deeply entrenched social cleavages and to help foster national cohesion. This article explo…
New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa - a New Inclination
Introduction to the Featured Topic ;New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa;, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2009
How congruent are populist parties with their constituencies? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament Elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden
Precarity and populism: Explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity
Precarity is often evoked in discussions about the rise of populism, but there is a dearth of systematic operationalization of the sociological concept of insecurity in populist research. This study fills this gap by theorizing about and empirically linking work-related and financial insecurity to populist outlook and voting in ten European countries. We propose a theoretical framework that links insecurity, respectively, to populist attitudes (s…
Direct Democracy in Constitutional Processes: The South African Plebiscite of 1992
Referendums are often seen as the final step to legitimizing a new constitution. In some cases these plebiscites are used to start the negotiation process. Who initiates the plebiscite and for what reason? Does a referendum strengthen certain actors or weaken their position in further negotiation processes? In this article the last whites-only South African plebiscite in 1992 is used as a case study. Confronted with a strong and growing oppositio…
One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data
This article investigates the effectiveness of three different two-dimensional models in representing political competition using user data from the EU and I Voting Advice Application for the EU elections from 2009 to 2019. We test different ways of aggregating economic, cultural, and European integration issues to determine which configuration best captures voter preferences across all member states. Our findings show that combining economic and…
Direct democracy integrity and the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey: A new research instrument
In some countries, direct democracy is used successfully to increase legitimacy of decisions or mitigate conflict, and in other countries, authoritarian leaders seem to instrumentalize and manipulate referendums. How can referendum integrity be analyzed? This article presents an empirical instrument to evaluate the variety and integrity of referendums. This encompasses criteria for the analysis of direct democracy. First, we develop a referendum …
Voting Behaviour in the 2009 South African Election
This article analyses voting behaviour in the South African election of 2009 and draws conclusions regarding the significance of party affiliation and issue-based voting in South Africa. It demonstrates the low level of voter registration and voter turnout. In the 2009 election the Independent Electoral Commission had problems with electoral management for the first time; however, it was able to prevent electoral violence. During the campaign the…
Ehre oder Amt?
Ehre oder Amt?
Reforming local government in Europe: Closing the Gap Between Democracy and Efficiency
Reforming Local Government in Europe: Closing the Gap Between Democracy and Efficiency
Worldwide processes of transnationalization are accompanied by new chal lenges for the democracies of the Western world. On the one hand these proc esses ask for more efficient and effective ways of p
Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective: Festschrift for Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Sport and National Identity: A Comparison of the 2006 and 2010 Fifa World CupsTM
Big sport events may strengthen negative nationalism or alternatively fuel positive patriotism. The 2006 FIFA WorldTM Cup held in Germany enabled Germans to express certain types of identities. Given Germany's history, there is the question whether this was accompanied with xenophobia. In South Africa, the 2010 FIFA World CupTM is in part held to transcend deeply entrenched social cleavages and to help foster national cohesion. This article explo…
Politische Beteiligung: Einführung in dialogorientierte Instrumente politischer und gesellschaftlicher Partizipation
Politische und gesellschaftliche Partizipation ist ein interdisziplinäres Querschnittsthema. Ziel dieses Bandes ist daher, ein fÃ1⁄4r die politikwissenschaftliche, soziologische und pädagogische Diskussion und Lehre anschlussfähiges EinfÃ1⁄4hrungs- und Lehrbuch vorzulegen, das moderne Instrumente politischer und gesellschaftlicher Diskussion beispielhaft vorstellt. Dabei wird ein Bogen geschlagen von der repräsentativen Demokratie, die den BÃ1⁄4r…
Local governance reform in global perspective
Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective
Local Governance Reforms in Africa
At a time when the democratic governance resurgence of the 90s in developing countries is giving way to the disappointment and disillusionment at the retreat of democracy, it is opportune that the relationship between democratic and local governance is being given serious consideration by the International Association of Political Science globally (Diamond 2008). For quite sometime now, some of us had argued that democracy cannot be consolidated …
Voting Behaviour in the 2009 South African Election
This article analyses voting behaviour in the South African election of 2009 and draws conclusions regarding the significance of party affiliation and issue-based voting in South Africa. It demonstrates the low level of voter registration and voter turnout. In the 2009 election the Independent Electoral Commission had problems with electoral management for the first time; however, it was able to prevent electoral violence. During the campaign the…
New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa - a New Inclination
Introduction to the Featured Topic ;New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa;, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2009
Direct Democracy in Constitutional Processes: The South African Plebiscite of 1992
Referendums are often seen as the final step to legitimizing a new constitution. In some cases these plebiscites are used to start the negotiation process. Who initiates the plebiscite and for what reason? Does a referendum strengthen certain actors or weaken their position in further negotiation processes? In this article the last whites-only South African plebiscite in 1992 is used as a case study. Confronted with a strong and growing oppositio…
Ehre Oder Amt?: Qualifizierung Bürgerschaftlichen Engagements Im Kulturbereich
Neue Machtansprüche in der Kommunalpolitik: Die Einstellungen von Ratsmitgliedern zu Bürgerbeteiligung
Politische Online-Beteiligung im internationalen Vergleich. Eine Revitalisierung politischer Beteiligung
Urbane Innovation
Politikwissenschaft und die digitale Gesellschaft
AutorInnenverzeichnis
Online Partizipation: Evaluation und Entwicklung - Status quo und Zukunft
Inhalt
Soziale Ungleichheit und quartiersbezogene politische Partizipation
Wahlen, Referenden, aber auch neue deliberative Beteiligungsinstrumente scheinen nur in begrenzter Maße beteiligungsferne, marginalisierte Bevölkerungsgruppen miteinzubeziehen. Die sozioökonomische Spaltung der Gesellschaft bewirkt eine partizipative Spaltung. Das Forschungsprojekt verändert die Perspektive und untersucht individuelle Erfolgsgeschichten. Wann gelingt es marginalisierte Gruppen (prekäre Beschäftigung, Altersarmut, Migration, allei…
Konflikte als Hoffnungsträger. Auseinandersetzungen um die postmigrantische Stadtgesellschaft
Aktuell werden Konflikte in der Migrationsdebatte neu bewertet. So wird ihr vermehrtes Auftreten als Zeichen für „gelingende Integration“ interpretiert. Konflikte sind hier als das Verbindungsband konzipiert, das offene, plurale Gesellschaften zusammenhalten kann. Zugetraut wird den Konflikten auch, dass sie einen Stimulus setzen für die demokratische Weiterentwicklung der als postmigrantisch bezeichneten Gesellschaft. Unser Artikel betrachtet in…
Direct democracy integrity and the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey: A new research instrument
In some countries, direct democracy is used successfully to increase legitimacy of decisions or mitigate conflict, and in other countries, authoritarian leaders seem to instrumentalize and manipulate referendums. How can referendum integrity be analyzed? This article presents an empirical instrument to evaluate the variety and integrity of referendums. This encompasses criteria for the analysis of direct democracy. First, we develop a referendum …
The integrity of digital policies and political participation in Uganda: A tale of dissent and digital repression
In response to an unresponsive government, citizens in Uganda have reacted by constructing their own spaces of participation from below. These bottom-up participatory spaces help citizens to escape the repression of regimes and counter their elimination by political representatives and administrative elites from decision-making processes. However, the participatory instruments from below seemingly threaten the regime's survival and the elites’ hi…
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