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Local Party Systems in Germany

Rademacher, Christian
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6914 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12975
Abstract: The aim of the project, which was carried out as part of the DFG project ´Local Party systems in Deutschland´, is to identify and compare existing local party systems and their development patterns at the local level since reunification. The local party systems were identified over time on the basis of four factors: 1. local political culture, 2. changes in local election law, 3. degree of organisation of local political actors and 4. structural contextual characteristics (size of municipality, local economic power, etc.). To this end, the results of the local elections from 1990 to 2016 were ... more
Topics: Political behaviour and attitudes | Elections

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 1990 - 2016
Geographic coverage: Germany (DE)
Universe: Local elections (district council, local council or federation/joint municipal council elections) from 1990-2016 of 13 German area states ("Flächenländer") (without city states)
Number of Units: 206225
Sampling Procedure: Total universe/Complete Enumeration
Mode of Data Collection: Aggregation
Data Collector: Principal investigator
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 57
Notes: This database is based on the municipal election database of the subproject A6 (Local Voter Communities as Hybrid Political Actors) of the SFB 580 (Social Developments after the Systemic Change - Discontinuity, Tradition and Structure Building). All data from 1990-2009 were taken from this database, corrected and supplemented with data up to 2016. ... more

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Rademacher, Christian - Universität Passau
Publication year: 2018
DOI: 10.4232/1.12975
Study number: ZA6914
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
External links: research project

Versions

Current Version: 1.0.0, 2018-02-05, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12975
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: Köglmeier, Tanja; Code-book zur Datenbank ´Kommunalwahlen in Deutschland. 1990-2016.´: DFG-Projekt ´Lokale Parteiensysteme in Deutschland´. Passau: Universität, 2017
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Rademacher, Christian (2018). Local Party Systems in Germany. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA6914 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12975.

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