Political selection in Germany

德国的政治选择

• 批准号: 405960810
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thushyanthan Baskaran
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Sozialpolitik und öffentliche Wirtschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/405960810?language=en
• 关键词: Political; selection; Germany

This project explores the determinants and consequences of political selection at the local level in Germany. During the second funding period, we have collected additional individual-level data for Bavaria and Hesse. With this data, we have continued our work on the papers that were mentioned in the previous application and wrote two new papers. The paper "The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections" has by now been accepted subject to minor revisions by the "European Economic Review". The paper "Competitively Elected Women as Policymakers" has received a "revise & resubmit" from the "Review of Economics and Statistics". The new papers, entitled "Can Young Politicians Influence Policy in a Gerontocracy?" and "Political Selection at the Dawn of a Global Pandemic", have been or will soon be submitted, respectively. In the third funding period, we plan to study political selection in the context of the Alternative für Deutschland's (AfD) rise in Germany. Some of the questions we will explore include: Are local politicians of the AfD true newcomers? Or are they disproportionately turncoats form other, more established parties, who see an opportunity for their own career advancement? Does having turncoats on their list help the AfD? How do politicians of the AfD, once they enter a political body, interact with those from more established parties? What consequences do these interactions have for policy choices? After focusing on apolitical characteristics of politicians in the first two funding periods (notably gender and age), we will thus focus on the link between ideology and partisan convictions and political selection in the third funding period. For this purpose, we will collect in particular individual-level data on local council elections from Saxony over the period 2009-2019. Saxony is ostensibly the German state where the AfD is most successful. In addition, local council elections in Saxony are conducted with open lists. Thus, we will be able to pinpoint the effect of individual candidates on the success of the entire party.

该项目探讨了德国地方一级政治选择的决定因素和后果。在第二个资助期间，我们收集了巴伐利亚州和黑森州的更多个人层面的数据，并继续我们的论文工作。在之前的申请中提到并撰写了两篇新论文“选举中的性别重新竞争差距”，现已被“欧洲经济评论”接受，但经过轻微修改。 《政策制定者》已收到《经济与统计评论》的“修改并重新提交”。新论文题为“年轻政治家能否影响老年政治中的政策？”和“全球大流行黎明时的政治选择”，在第三个资助期间，我们计划研究德国另类选择党（AfD）崛起背景下的政治选择。我们将探讨的问题包括：选择党的当地政客是否是真正的新人？或者他们是否从其他更成熟的政党中看到了自己职业发展的机会？在关注前两个资助时期政客的非政治特征（特别是性别和年龄）后，选择党的成员一旦进入政治机构，就会与更成熟的政党互动，这些互动会对政策选择产生什么影响？因此将重点关注链接为此，我们将特别收集 2009 年至 2019 年萨克森州地方议会选举的个人层面数据。此外，萨克森州的地方议会选举是通过公开名单进行的，因此我们将能够确定个别候选人对整个政党成功的影响。