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Turnout in Germany

Citizen Participation in State, Federal, and European Elections since 1979
Nomos,  2007, 342 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8329-2089-0


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The work is part of the series Studien zur Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung (Volume 1)
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englischTurnout in Germany has been declining since the end of the 1980s. European and Landtag elections are particularly affected by this development. The all-time low was a turnout of 43 percent in the European Parliament election in 2004. The causes for this dramatic decline are a regular topic in public debates.

This book analyses the participation of Germans in European, Bundestag and Landtag elections since 1979. With its broad research design it integrates the most important approaches of empirical electoral research. In the first part, turnout is described within its geographic and social context by means of data from official statistics.

However, individual attitudes and motives of the voters are even more important for the interpretation of declining turnout and hence are dealt with in the second part of the book. The weakening of social norms and political dissatisfaction have dramatic consequences for turnout. In addition, Europe-, Federal- and Länder-specific factors cannot be neglected in a system of multi-level governance.

»Das Buch spiegelt den aktuellen Stand der quantitativen Nichtwähler- und Wahlbeteiligungsforschung in Deutschland wider und wird auf absehbare Zeit das Standardwerk zu diesem Thema sein.«
Ossip Fürnberg, ZParl 1/09

»This work is most useful in answering the primary question of why electoral turnout has declined, but is even more useful in providing some ideas of how to get voters back to the ballot box.«
Alexandra Cole, German Studies Review 2/08