Michael Jankowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3717855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Jankowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Jankowski |
| SIGNATURE | JANKOWSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7765-9132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
How the coalition formation process and coalition preferences shape satisfaction with democracy
The winner-loser gap in satisfaction with democracy is one of the most robust findings in political science. This relationship is particularly clear in two-party systems where only one party ends up in power. Yet in the increasingly complex multi-party systems of Europe, a lot of different coalitions are often possible, meaning that a ‘winning’ voter may not like the government coalition that the party they voted for ends up in. We argue that cha…
Public sector culture does not increase honest behavior: Evidence from RCTs in five countries
Honest behavior of public sector workers is an important quality of governance, impacting the functioning of government institutions, the level of corruption, economic development and public trust. Scholars often assume that honesty is inherent to public sector culture, however empirical evidence on the causal effect of public sector culture on honest behavior is lacking. This research addresses this question by estimating the causal effect of pr…
Partisan Homogeneity Does Not Increase Collaborative Corruption
This study examines the behavioral consequences of partisan group composition on cooperation in a setting where cooperation is mutually beneficial but unethical. Collaborative corruption highlights that corruption is not a solitary act but necessitates cooperation. Based on the premise that partisanship serves as a social identity, leading ordinary citizens to reward co-partisans and penalize out-partisans, we expect that collaborative corruption…
Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two‐stage conjoint experiment with party elites
Does gender affect candidate selection and list placement under proportional representation (PR)? Existing research argues that PR systems have a positive effect on women's representation due to a more inclusive candidate selection process. However, analysing the actual process of candidate selection under PR before observing the final party list is challenging, and little is known about the preferences and strategies of party elites when selecti…
Party Politics at the Local Level: Introduction to the Special Issue
This Special Issue explores the evolving role of local party politics in Europe and beyond, emphasizing the increasing autonomy of local governments and their growing influence in public life. Despite its importance, local party competition remains underexplored, with much of the existing literature relying on case studies or subjective surveys. The contributions in this issue aim to address these gaps by utilizing new data sources to analyse par…
Das Schließen der Repräsentationslücke? Die Wählerschaft des Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Eine Analyse basierend auf Paneldaten
Das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) hat sich trotz seiner erst kürzlichen Gründung bereits zu einem relevanten Akteur im deutschen Parteiensystem entwickelt. Der vorliegende Beitrag liefert eine umfassendere Betrachtung der BSW-Wählerschaft, basierend auf Paneldaten der GLES. Durch die Verwendung von Paneldaten ist es nicht nur möglich die aktuellen Einstellungen der BSW-Anhänger:innen zu beschreiben, sondern auch deren Veränderungen im Zeitverla…
Do voters want their parties to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations
Do voters want their party to be office- or policy-seekers in coalition negotiations? This question has been left unstudied in political science research so far. While existing research shows that policies matter for voters when forming their preferences for coalitions, in this study it is argued that voters find it at the same time important that their preferred party gains offices. Specifically, voters’ office-seeking considerations are expecte…
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep: When are voters loyal to corrupt politicians
When do voters turn a blind eye on corrupt politicians? Recent research suggests that voters might be willing to support corrupt politicians due to a lack of a ‘viable and clean alternative,’ i.e., voters prefer supporting a corrupt politician when the alternative is to support a politician who takes a fundamentally different policy stance. Following this argument, it has also been argued that especially corrupt politicians from radical parties a…
Who wants Covid-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the major obstacles for successfully combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve a sufficiently high vaccination rate, calls for compulsory vaccinations have been discussed controversially. This study analyses what drives citizens’ attitudes towards compulsory vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we are interested in the impact of party- and expert cues on public attitudes. We further expect …
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models
Despite the ongoing success of populist parties in many parts of the world, we lack comprehensive information about parties’ level of populism over time. A recent contribution to Political Analysis by Di Cocco and Monechi (DCM) suggests that this research gap can be closed by predicting parties’ populism scores from their election manifestos using supervised machine learning. In this paper, we provide a detailed discussion of the suggested approa…
Sympathy for the devil? Voter support for illiberal politicians
Many democracies are witnessing the rise and continuing success of parties and politicians who oppose fundamental principles of liberal democracy. Recent research finds that voters support illiberal politicians, because they trade off policy congruence against attitudes toward liberal democracy. Other studies, however, suggest that authoritarian and populist voters might actually have a preference to vote for illiberal candidates. We argue that b…
Electoral system preferences of citizens compared: Evidence from a conjoint experiment in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom
Electoral systems fulfill different functions. Typically, they cannot meet all demands at the same time, so that the evaluation of specific electoral systems depends on subjective preferences about the single demands. We argue that it is the electorate which transfers its power to representatives and, therefore, its preferences should be considered in debates about electoral systems. Consequently, our contribution presents results of citizens’ de…
Populist parties and the two‐dimensional policy space
How are parties' ideological positions and levels of populism connected? Existing research either advocates for a U‐shaped relationship between parties' left‐right position and their degree of populism or uses specific dimensions of a two‐dimensional policy space to describe right‐wing populist parties. We provide an integrated perspective to describe parties' degree of populism by arguing that populism is higher when parties put strong emphasis …
Prioritizing exceptional social needs. Experimental evidence on the role of discrimination and client deservingness in public employees’ and citizens’ discretionary behavior
This study examines how public employees and citizens exercise administrative discretion in a dilemma. To identify and compare the moral reasoning underlying discretionary choices, we conducted a conjoint experiment among public employees, future civil servants, and lay citizens in Germany. In the conjoint, respondents were forced to prioritize between two equally eligible welfare claimants. Claimants’ profiles vary concerning attributes reflecti…
Parteiendifferenz in der Waldpolitik. Eine Analyse der deutschen Bundesländer
Welche Bedeutung messen die Landesparteien der Waldpolitik bei? Welche Waldfunktionen priorisieren sie? Inwieweit sind ihre Positionen von Parteiendifferenzen geprägt? Um diese Forschungsfragen zu adressieren, führen wir eine textanalytische Auswertung von Landtagswahlprogrammen durch, die im Zeitraum von 1990 bis 2019 veröffentlicht wurden. Unsere Analysen zeigen, dass die Positionen der Parteien nicht nur vom regionalen Kontext geprägt, sondern…
Slowly adopting: The impact of same-sex marriage legalisation on the attitudes of parliamentary candidates in Germany
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion
Getting a grip on issues of administrative delegation is key to the performance of public organizations. The oversight game models delegation as a conflict of interest between an inspector and an inspectee to act in the interests of the former. This study tests alternative solutions to overcome ‘shirking’ in the oversight game. Specifically, we test the effect of external incentives, as implied by the game-theoretical solution, against the role o…
Ballot position effects in open-list PR systems: The moderating impact of postal voting
Various studies demonstrate that candidates at the top of the party list have a strong advantage in preferential voting systems, particularly under open-list PR. Such ballot position effects can be explained by voters’ tendency to rely on easily available information shortcuts when selecting a candidate. In this paper, we argue that the strength of ballot position effects depends on the context of how voters cast their vote. Specifically, we argu…
How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates
The left–right scale is widely used to measure ideological orientation. Relying on Freeden's approach to political ideology as a ‘conceptual morphology’, we argue that the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ may change, but these changes are more likely for peripheral than core concepts. To test this argument, we analyze open-ended questions on the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ included in two waves of surveys of German parliamentary candidates collect…
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany
Candidate selection is one of the most relevant tasks of parties and has important consequences for various aspects of political representation. While previous research has addressed many important aspects of the candidate selection process, we know little about the question of which candidate characteristics are preferred by party members. We address this research gap by conducting a conjoint experiment among more than 300 local party leaders in…
The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany
Independent local lists (ILL) have become an important non-partisan actor in many local elections. However, little is known about which factors explain their electoral success. Drawing on recent contributions regarding the anti-establishment attitudes of many ILL, we argue that the rise of anti-establishment parties, especially the rise of populist radical-right parties, potentially harms the electoral success of ILL. Our main argument is that bo…
Keep it Simple! German Voters’ Limited Competence to Evaluate Electoral Systems’ Functions
Electoral systems are a fundamental feature of any democratic system, and the design of an electoral system can have a tremendous impact on party-, candidate-, and voter-behaviour. However, in order to use all features of an electoral system as intended, voters must have a clear understanding of how their electoral system actually works. While earlier studies have already shown that many German voters have limited knowledge about the characterist…
Vaccine alliance building blocks: A conjoint experiment on popular support for international Covid-19 cooperation formats
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11077-021-09435-1
Model Dependency in the Analysis of Women's Electoral Success
Maciej Górecki provides a detailed and interesting discussion of our analysis regarding women's electoral success in the Polish open-list proportional representation (PR) system and the impact of a gender quota implemented in 2011. In essence, he claims that it remains an open question whether the gender quota had a ‘paradoxical’ effect (i.e., whether the introduction of the gender quota had a negative impact on female candidates) due to ‘debatab…
The incumbency advantage in second-order PR elections: Evidence from the Irish context, 1942-2019
Voting for locals: Voters' information processing strategies in open-list PR systems
Dimensions of political conflict and party positions in multi-level democracies: Evidence from the Local Manifesto Project
Partisan conflicts have been frequently analysed in comparative political science research. Yet little is known about the dimensions of political conflict at the local level in multi-level democracies. This article contributes to the literature on the estimation and analysis of party positions by first presenting a new dataset of more than 800 local party manifestos in Germany that allows for a systematic analysis of the dimensions of political c…
Sympathy for the devil? Voter support for illiberal politicians
Many democracies are witnessing the rise and continuing success of parties and politicians who oppose fundamental principles of liberal democracy. Recent research finds that voters support illiberal politicians, because they trade off policy congruence against attitudes toward liberal democracy. Other studies, however, suggest that authoritarian and populist voters might actually have a preference to vote for illiberal candidates. We argue that b…
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany
Candidate selection is one of the most relevant tasks of parties and has important consequences for various aspects of political representation. While previous research has addressed many important aspects of the candidate selection process, we know little about the question of which candidate characteristics are preferred by party members. We address this research gap by conducting a conjoint experiment among more than 300 local party leaders in…
Ineffective and Counterproductive? The Impact of Gender Quotas in Open-List Proportional Representation Systems
Research on the impact of gender quotas in open-list proportional representation systems has described quotas as ineffective or even paradoxical. While some authors argue that gender quotas without a placement mandate will be essentially ineffective since most women will be nominated to unpromising positions, others suppose that women will be disadvantaged by gender quotas because the increase in the number of female candidates will decrease the …
Representative Bureaucracy and Public Hiring Preferences: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among German Municipal Civil Servants and Private Sector Employees
Drawing on Weber, this study tests whether the normative principles of merit orientation and impartiality are more prevalent in shaping public hiring preferences among civil servants—both junior and senior—than among private sector employees. In a conjoint experiment, respondents are asked to compare two hypothetical applicants for an office job in a municipal administration and to decide which they would hire. The application profiles vary with …
Ideological alternative? Analyzing Alternative für Deutschland candidates’ ideal points via black box scaling
This study applies black box scaling to the German Longitudinal Election Study candidate survey 2013 to shed light on an emerging right-wing party in Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The scaling procedure extracts two meaningful and robust ideological dimensions described as socialism versus liberalism and libertarian versus authoritarian. Placing the ideal point of candidates from all parties into this two-dimensional space shows …
The impact of anti-establishment parties on the electoral success of independent local lists: Evidence from Germany
Independent local lists (ILL) have become an important non-partisan actor in many local elections. However, little is known about which factors explain their electoral success. Drawing on recent contributions regarding the anti-establishment attitudes of many ILL, we argue that the rise of anti-establishment parties, especially the rise of populist radical-right parties, potentially harms the electoral success of ILL. Our main argument is that bo…
Who wants Covid-19 vaccination to be compulsory? The impact of party cues, left-right ideology, and populism
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the major obstacles for successfully combating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve a sufficiently high vaccination rate, calls for compulsory vaccinations have been discussed controversially. This study analyses what drives citizens’ attitudes towards compulsory vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we are interested in the impact of party- and expert cues on public attitudes. We further expect …
When There's No Easy Way Out: Electoral Law Reform and Ballot Position Effects in the 2011 Hamburg State Elections
The new electoral law in the state of Hamburg, which was first used in the 2011 elections for the state parliament, abolished the optional overall list vote in the electoral districts and thus forced voters to cast preference votes for individual candidates. Supporters of the new electoral law assume that voters will inform themselves better about the candidates. This assumption contrasts with the voters' tendency to choose their favourite option…
Reassessing the European Union in the United Nations General Assembly
In this article, we compare the European Union's (EU's) voting cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to other regional organizations like the African Union, the Arab League, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Caribbean Community, the Economic Community of West African States and the Mercado Común del Sur by using a novel index of voting cohesion. The analysis confirms previous findings that the EU member states vote,…
The Effect of Electing Women on Future Female Candidate Selection Patterns: Findings from a Regression Discontinuity Design
In this article, we address the question of how electing women to national or subnational parliaments affects future female candidate selection in an open-list proportional representation system, using the example of Poland. We consider three potential effects of electing a woman. First, based on existing theories of the incumbency advantage, elected women should have higher chances of reselection and reelection in future elections (incumbency ef…
Populist parties and the two‐dimensional policy space
How are parties' ideological positions and levels of populism connected? Existing research either advocates for a U‐shaped relationship between parties' left‐right position and their degree of populism or uses specific dimensions of a two‐dimensional policy space to describe right‐wing populist parties. We provide an integrated perspective to describe parties' degree of populism by arguing that populism is higher when parties put strong emphasis …
Are populist parties fostering women’s political representation in Poland? A comment on Kostadinova and Mikulska
In a recent contribution to Party Politics, Kostadinova and Mikulska analyze women’s political representation by populist parties in Poland and Bulgaria. The presented findings for Poland suggest that the main right-wing populist party PiS (1) elected more women to parliament, (2) nominated more women to promising ballot positions, and (3) that voters of PiS were more likely to support women in the elections compared to leftists parties. We disag…
To adapt or to defend? Comparing position shifts among Bundestag candidates between 2013 and 2017
In this research note, candidate survey data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) is used to analyse positional shifts of German Bundestag parties between 2013 and 2017. Two developments make Germany a particularly interesting case: (1) the liberal but also controversial policies of the Merkel cabinet during the European refugee crisis and (2) the change of leadership within the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland …
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models
Despite the ongoing success of populist parties in many parts of the world, we lack comprehensive information about parties’ level of populism over time. A recent contribution to Political Analysis by Di Cocco and Monechi (DCM) suggests that this research gap can be closed by predicting parties’ populism scores from their election manifestos using supervised machine learning. In this paper, we provide a detailed discussion of the suggested approa…
Keep it Simple! German Voters’ Limited Competence to Evaluate Electoral Systems’ Functions
Electoral systems are a fundamental feature of any democratic system, and the design of an electoral system can have a tremendous impact on party-, candidate-, and voter-behaviour. However, in order to use all features of an electoral system as intended, voters must have a clear understanding of how their electoral system actually works. While earlier studies have already shown that many German voters have limited knowledge about the characterist…
Das Schließen der Repräsentationslücke? Die Wählerschaft des Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Eine Analyse basierend auf Paneldaten
Das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) hat sich trotz seiner erst kürzlichen Gründung bereits zu einem relevanten Akteur im deutschen Parteiensystem entwickelt. Der vorliegende Beitrag liefert eine umfassendere Betrachtung der BSW-Wählerschaft, basierend auf Paneldaten der GLES. Durch die Verwendung von Paneldaten ist es nicht nur möglich die aktuellen Einstellungen der BSW-Anhänger:innen zu beschreiben, sondern auch deren Veränderungen im Zeitverla…
The incumbency advantage in second-order PR elections: Evidence from the Irish context, 1942-2019
How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates
The left–right scale is widely used to measure ideological orientation. Relying on Freeden's approach to political ideology as a ‘conceptual morphology’, we argue that the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ may change, but these changes are more likely for peripheral than core concepts. To test this argument, we analyze open-ended questions on the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ included in two waves of surveys of German parliamentary candidates collect…
Model Dependency in the Analysis of Women's Electoral Success
Maciej Górecki provides a detailed and interesting discussion of our analysis regarding women's electoral success in the Polish open-list proportional representation (PR) system and the impact of a gender quota implemented in 2011. In essence, he claims that it remains an open question whether the gender quota had a ‘paradoxical’ effect (i.e., whether the introduction of the gender quota had a negative impact on female candidates) due to ‘debatab…
The Effects of Electoral Rules on Parliamentary Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and the Czech Republic
Do different types of preferential-list PR systems create different incentives for how Members of Parliament vote? To examine this, we compare the quasi-list system of Poland, where only preference votes determine which candidates win seats, to the flexible-list system in the Czech Republic, where the 5 percent preference vote threshold required to override the party ranking of candidates gives the party greater power in influencing which candida…
Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two‐stage conjoint experiment with party elites
Does gender affect candidate selection and list placement under proportional representation (PR)? Existing research argues that PR systems have a positive effect on women's representation due to a more inclusive candidate selection process. However, analysing the actual process of candidate selection under PR before observing the final party list is challenging, and little is known about the preferences and strategies of party elites when selecti…
One voice or different choice? Vote defection of European Union member states in the United Nations General Assembly
Existing research suggests that European Union member states are increasingly able to act in concert in the United Nations General Assembly. Based on several hundred co-ordination meetings per year, the European Union ‘speaks with one voice’ on most of the resolutions voted upon in the United Nations General Assembly. However, little is known about instances where the European Union member states do not vote coherently. Three questions remain una…
The Unsolved Puzzle: Pacific Asia's Voting Cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly—A Response to Peter Ferdinand
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Offers a refined research design for analysing voting cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly; Demonstrates that ASEAN's integration process is unlikely to explain the observed high level of voting cohesion in Pacific Asia; Specifies the ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Japan alignment; Shows that the alignment of South Korea is closer with the USA than with North Korea in contested votes in the United N…
The Unsolved Puzzle: Pacific Asia's Voting Cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly—A Response to Peter Ferdinand
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Offers a refined research design for analysing voting cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly; Demonstrates that ASEAN's integration process is unlikely to explain the observed high level of voting cohesion in Pacific Asia; Specifies the ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Japan alignment; Shows that the alignment of South Korea is closer with the USA than with North Korea in contested votes in the United N…
Reassessing the European Union in the United Nations General Assembly
In this article, we compare the European Union's (EU's) voting cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to other regional organizations like the African Union, the Arab League, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Caribbean Community, the Economic Community of West African States and the Mercado Común del Sur by using a novel index of voting cohesion. The analysis confirms previous findings that the EU member states vote,…
All by myself” oder „With a little help from my friends”? Die Integration der Bundespartei in die Wahlkampforganisation auf Landesebene
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When There's No Easy Way Out: Electoral Law Reform and Ballot Position Effects in the 2011 Hamburg State Elections
The new electoral law in the state of Hamburg, which was first used in the 2011 elections for the state parliament, abolished the optional overall list vote in the electoral districts and thus forced voters to cast preference votes for individual candidates. Supporters of the new electoral law assume that voters will inform themselves better about the candidates. This assumption contrasts with the voters' tendency to choose their favourite option…
The Effects of Electoral Rules on Parliamentary Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and the Czech Republic
Do different types of preferential-list PR systems create different incentives for how Members of Parliament vote? To examine this, we compare the quasi-list system of Poland, where only preference votes determine which candidates win seats, to the flexible-list system in the Czech Republic, where the 5 percent preference vote threshold required to override the party ranking of candidates gives the party greater power in influencing which candida…
Voting for locals: Voters' information processing strategies in open-list PR systems
Ideological alternative? Analyzing Alternative für Deutschland candidates’ ideal points via black box scaling
This study applies black box scaling to the German Longitudinal Election Study candidate survey 2013 to shed light on an emerging right-wing party in Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The scaling procedure extracts two meaningful and robust ideological dimensions described as socialism versus liberalism and libertarian versus authoritarian. Placing the ideal point of candidates from all parties into this two-dimensional space shows …
Politikpositionen von Regierungen im Ländervergleich: Heterogenität am Beispiel der Agrarpolitik
Die AfD im achten Europäischen Parlament: Eine Analyse der Positionsverschiebung basierend auf namentlichen Abstimmungen von 2014–2016
One voice or different choice? Vote defection of European Union member states in the United Nations General Assembly
Existing research suggests that European Union member states are increasingly able to act in concert in the United Nations General Assembly. Based on several hundred co-ordination meetings per year, the European Union ‘speaks with one voice’ on most of the resolutions voted upon in the United Nations General Assembly. However, little is known about instances where the European Union member states do not vote coherently. Three questions remain una…
Are populist parties fostering women’s political representation in Poland? A comment on Kostadinova and Mikulska
In a recent contribution to Party Politics, Kostadinova and Mikulska analyze women’s political representation by populist parties in Poland and Bulgaria. The presented findings for Poland suggest that the main right-wing populist party PiS (1) elected more women to parliament, (2) nominated more women to promising ballot positions, and (3) that voters of PiS were more likely to support women in the elections compared to leftists parties. We disag…
To adapt or to defend? Comparing position shifts among Bundestag candidates between 2013 and 2017
In this research note, candidate survey data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) is used to analyse positional shifts of German Bundestag parties between 2013 and 2017. Two developments make Germany a particularly interesting case: (1) the liberal but also controversial policies of the Merkel cabinet during the European refugee crisis and (2) the change of leadership within the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland …
The Effect of Electing Women on Future Female Candidate Selection Patterns: Findings from a Regression Discontinuity Design
In this article, we address the question of how electing women to national or subnational parliaments affects future female candidate selection in an open-list proportional representation system, using the example of Poland. We consider three potential effects of electing a woman. First, based on existing theories of the incumbency advantage, elected women should have higher chances of reselection and reelection in future elections (incumbency ef…
Ineffective and Counterproductive? The Impact of Gender Quotas in Open-List Proportional Representation Systems
Research on the impact of gender quotas in open-list proportional representation systems has described quotas as ineffective or even paradoxical. While some authors argue that gender quotas without a placement mandate will be essentially ineffective since most women will be nominated to unpromising positions, others suppose that women will be disadvantaged by gender quotas because the increase in the number of female candidates will decrease the …
Dimensions of political conflict and party positions in multi-level democracies: Evidence from the Local Manifesto Project
Partisan conflicts have been frequently analysed in comparative political science research. Yet little is known about the dimensions of political conflict at the local level in multi-level democracies. This article contributes to the literature on the estimation and analysis of party positions by first presenting a new dataset of more than 800 local party manifestos in Germany that allows for a systematic analysis of the dimensions of political c…
Representative Bureaucracy and Public Hiring Preferences: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among German Municipal Civil Servants and Private Sector Employees
Drawing on Weber, this study tests whether the normative principles of merit orientation and impartiality are more prevalent in shaping public hiring preferences among civil servants—both junior and senior—than among private sector employees. In a conjoint experiment, respondents are asked to compare two hypothetical applicants for an office job in a municipal administration and to decide which they would hire. The application profiles vary with …
Vaccine alliance building blocks: A conjoint experiment on popular support for international Covid-19 cooperation formats
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11077-021-09435-1
Model Dependency in the Analysis of Women's Electoral Success
Maciej Górecki provides a detailed and interesting discussion of our analysis regarding women's electoral success in the Polish open-list proportional representation (PR) system and the impact of a gender quota implemented in 2011. In essence, he claims that it remains an open question whether the gender quota had a ‘paradoxical’ effect (i.e., whether the introduction of the gender quota had a negative impact on female candidates) due to ‘debatab…
The incumbency advantage in second-order PR elections: Evidence from the Irish context, 1942-2019
Parteiendifferenz in der Waldpolitik. Eine Analyse der deutschen Bundesländer
Welche Bedeutung messen die Landesparteien der Waldpolitik bei? Welche Waldfunktionen priorisieren sie? Inwieweit sind ihre Positionen von Parteiendifferenzen geprägt? Um diese Forschungsfragen zu adressieren, führen wir eine textanalytische Auswertung von Landtagswahlprogrammen durch, die im Zeitraum von 1990 bis 2019 veröffentlicht wurden. Unsere Analysen zeigen, dass die Positionen der Parteien nicht nur vom regionalen Kontext geprägt, sondern…
Slowly adopting: The impact of same-sex marriage legalisation on the attitudes of parliamentary candidates in Germany
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion
Getting a grip on issues of administrative delegation is key to the performance of public organizations. The oversight game models delegation as a conflict of interest between an inspector and an inspectee to act in the interests of the former. This study tests alternative solutions to overcome ‘shirking’ in the oversight game. Specifically, we test the effect of external incentives, as implied by the game-theoretical solution, against the role o…
Ballot position effects in open-list PR systems: The moderating impact of postal voting
Various studies demonstrate that candidates at the top of the party list have a strong advantage in preferential voting systems, particularly under open-list PR. Such ballot position effects can be explained by voters’ tendency to rely on easily available information shortcuts when selecting a candidate. In this paper, we argue that the strength of ballot position effects depends on the context of how voters cast their vote. Specifically, we argu…
How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates
The left–right scale is widely used to measure ideological orientation. Relying on Freeden's approach to political ideology as a ‘conceptual morphology’, we argue that the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ may change, but these changes are more likely for peripheral than core concepts. To test this argument, we analyze open-ended questions on the meaning of ‘left’ and ‘right’ included in two waves of surveys of German parliamentary candidates collect…
Local preferences in candidate selection: Evidence from a conjoint experiment among party leaders in Germany
Candidate selection is one of the most relevant tasks of parties and has important consequences for various aspects of political representation. While previous research has addressed many important aspects of the candidate selection process, we know little about the question of which candidate characteristics are preferred by party members. We address this research gap by conducting a conjoint experiment among more than 300 local party leaders in…
Political science (37 works) · Law (30 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (28 works) · Politics (28 works) · Law (27 works) · Economics (22 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works)