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Volker Best

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ID4378967
NAMEVolker Best
GIVEN NAMESVolker
FAMILY NAMEBest
SIGNATUREBEST V
AFFILIATIONSMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
ORCID0000-0002-2241-6619
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS20
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2
  • Koalitionsstrategien in Wahlkämpfen

    Volker Best•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2025

    Durch die Beteiligung an Regierungskoalitionen können Parteien ihre office- und policy-Ziele erreichen; die Auswirkungen auf ihr votes-Ziel können aber ambivalent ausfallen. Der Artikel erörtert, warum und wie Parteien im Wahlkampf Koalitionspräferenzen signalisieren, und exemplifiziert die theoretischen Überlegungen mit Fokus auf die CDU/CSU anhand des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2025

  • A New Dynamic’ for German Democracy? Democracy Reforms Between Populist Demands and Governmental Strategies

    Open Access•Volker Best•ARTICLE•German Politics•2025•References: 15

  • A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform

    Open Access•Camille Bedock, Volker Best et al.•ARTICLE•Party Politics•2023•Cited by: 13•References: 43

    The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field of democracy reform, even though populist radical right parties strongly criticize how democratic systems currently function. In an exploratory and qualitative study of four cases, we analyze the adaptation (or lack thereof) of ma…

  • Bundesratsreform und gemischte Länderkoalitionen: Zum Bargaining-Potenzial der Bundesregierung bei absoluter, relativer und umgekehrter Mehrheitsregel in der „Länderkammer

    Open Access•Volker Best•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 21

  • Looking for Mr. Right? A Comparative Analysis of Parties’ ‘Coalition Statements’ prior to the Federal Elections of 2005 and 2009

    Frank Decker, Volker Best•ARTICLE•German Politics•2010•Cited by: 6

    Although literature on the topic of coalition formation has become nearly unmanageable and although parties' preferences are always at the centre of related theories, the preferences uttered by parties themselves ('coalition signals') have hardly played a role so far. A symptom of this neglect is the absence of a notional equivalent of the German 'Koalitionsaussage' in the English language. The recently introduced concept of 'pre-electoral coalit…

  • A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform

    Open Access•Camille Bedock, Volker Best et al.•ARTICLE•Party Politics•2023•Cited by: 13•References: 43

    The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field of democracy reform, even though populist radical right parties strongly criticize how democratic systems currently function. In an exploratory and qualitative study of four cases, we analyze the adaptation (or lack thereof) of ma…

  • Looking for Mr. Right? A Comparative Analysis of Parties’ ‘Coalition Statements’ prior to the Federal Elections of 2005 and 2009

    Frank Decker, Volker Best•ARTICLE•German Politics•2010•Cited by: 6

    Although literature on the topic of coalition formation has become nearly unmanageable and although parties' preferences are always at the centre of related theories, the preferences uttered by parties themselves ('coalition signals') have hardly played a role so far. A symptom of this neglect is the absence of a notional equivalent of the German 'Koalitionsaussage' in the English language. The recently introduced concept of 'pre-electoral coalit…

  • Bundesratsreform und gemischte Länderkoalitionen: Zum Bargaining-Potenzial der Bundesregierung bei absoluter, relativer und umgekehrter Mehrheitsregel in der „Länderkammer

    Open Access•Volker Best•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 21

  • Looking for Mr. Right? A Comparative Analysis of Parties’ ‘Coalition Statements’ prior to the Federal Elections of 2005 and 2009

    Frank Decker, Volker Best•ARTICLE•German Politics•2010•Cited by: 6

    Although literature on the topic of coalition formation has become nearly unmanageable and although parties' preferences are always at the centre of related theories, the preferences uttered by parties themselves ('coalition signals') have hardly played a role so far. A symptom of this neglect is the absence of a notional equivalent of the German 'Koalitionsaussage' in the English language. The recently introduced concept of 'pre-electoral coalit…

  • Bundesratsreform und gemischte Länderkoalitionen: Zum Bargaining-Potenzial der Bundesregierung bei absoluter, relativer und umgekehrter Mehrheitsregel in der „Länderkammer

    Open Access•Volker Best•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 21

  • A policy like no other? The populist radical right challenge in the field of democracy reform

    Open Access•Camille Bedock, Volker Best et al.•ARTICLE•Party Politics•2023•Cited by: 13•References: 43

    The literature on the populist radical right has underlined the party family’s influence on a variety of issues, such as immigration, welfare, and the EU. However, scholars have hardly studied its influence in the field of democracy reform, even though populist radical right parties strongly criticize how democratic systems currently function. In an exploratory and qualitative study of four cases, we analyze the adaptation (or lack thereof) of ma…

  • Koalitionsstrategien in Wahlkämpfen

    Volker Best•ARTICLE•Forschungsjournal Soziale…•2025

    Durch die Beteiligung an Regierungskoalitionen können Parteien ihre office- und policy-Ziele erreichen; die Auswirkungen auf ihr votes-Ziel können aber ambivalent ausfallen. Der Artikel erörtert, warum und wie Parteien im Wahlkampf Koalitionspräferenzen signalisieren, und exemplifiziert die theoretischen Überlegungen mit Fokus auf die CDU/CSU anhand des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2025

  • A New Dynamic’ for German Democracy? Democracy Reforms Between Populist Demands and Governmental Strategies

    Open Access•Volker Best•ARTICLE•German Politics•2025•References: 15

Political science (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · German (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Administration and Political Analysis (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)

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