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Informationen zum Autor Bernhard Weßels received his PhD from the Free University in Berlin. He is professor at Humboldt University Berlin, and senior researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Research Centre. Since the early 1990s he has been engaged in election research and has been the principle investigator of many comparative research projects, including the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and the European Election Study. He is co-principle investigator of the German Longitudinal Election Study.; Hans Rattinger received his PhD from the University of Freiburg. He held professorships and visiting professorships in Freiburg, Bamberg, Cambridge Mass., Toronto, and Georgetown Washington D.C. He was the principle investigator of numerous research projects on political culture, voting behaviour, and democratic participation. He is co-principle investigator of the German Longitudinal Election Study.Sigrid Roßteutscher received her PhD from the European University Institute, Florence. She holds a chair in sociology at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She has worked on religion and political behaviour and was a principle investigator of comparative research projects on social capital. She is co-principle investigator of the German Longitudinal Election Study.Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck received his PhD from the University of Mannheim. He held professorships and visiting professorships in Duisburg, Zurich, and Auckland, and holds a chair in political sociology at the University of Mannheim. He is engaged in the Cross-National Election Project (CNEP), and was the principle investigator of numerous projects on political communication and voting behaviour. He is co-principle investigator of the German Longitudinal Election Study. Klappentext Voters on the Move or on the Run? addresses electoral change, the reasons for it, and its consequences. By investigating the complexity of voting and its context, the volume shows that increasingly heterogeneity is not arbitrary and unstructured. Zusammenfassung Voters on the Move or on the Run? addresses electoral change, the reasons for it, and its consequences. By investigating the complexity of voting and its context, the volume shows that increasingly heterogeneity is not arbitrary and unstructured. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction 1: Bernhard Weßels, Hans Rattinger, Sigrid Roßteutscher and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck: The Changing Context and Outlook of Voting 2: Jan Eric Blumenstiel: Voter Fragmentation and the Differentiation of Vote Functions Part II: Increasing Heterogeneity of Voting 3: Aiko Wagner: Party Specific Vote Functions 4: Sascha Huber: Coalitions and Voting Behavior in a Differentiating Multi-party System 5: Sigrid Roßteutscher, Ina Bieber and Philipp Scherer: Voting Complexity in a Multi-layered System. Or: How Voting Choices in Second-order Elections Impact the Stability of Party Identification 6: Heiko Giebler: Contextualizing Turnout and Party Choice: Electoral Behaviour on Different Political Levels 7: Heiko Giebler, Bernhard Weßels and Andreas Wüst: Does Personal Campaigning Make a Difference? Part III: Increasing Complexity and Voting 8: Sigrid Roßteutscher and Daniel Stegmueller: Network Politicization and Political Integration: From Grand Cleavages to Private Network Structures 9: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and Patrick Kraft: Political Information Flows and Consistent Voting: Personal Conversations, Mass Media, Party Campaigns and the Quality of Voting Decisions at the 2009 German Federal Election 10: Richard Johnston, Julia Partheymüller and Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck: Activation of Fundamentals in German Campaigns 11: Bernhard Weßels: Voters' Motivations: How and Why Short-term Factors Grow in Importance 12: Markus Steinbrecher: Are Alienation and Indifference the New Features of Elections? 13: Hans Rattinger and Elena Wiegand: Volatility on the Rise? Attitudinal Stabi...
