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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Martin Elff
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Demokratie & Wah
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 30
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Focus of this year's course on "Democracy & Elections" is the German Bundestag election of 2017. Using data from the 2017 German Longitudinal Election Study we will examine who - in terms of social position, value orientation, and ideological outlook - participated in the election and who abstained from voting, and who voted for which party; what moved issues the voters; whether and how the patterns of partisanship have changed. The course aims to combine a theoritical and systematic perspective with a hands-on approach to actual research. Topics of the course are the main concepts and ideas of electoral research, strategies and designs of empirical research in voting behavior, and practical aspects of data analysis with survey data.
Educational objective:
Aims of the course are
- to introduce to the main theories and concepts of electoral research
- to provide participants with some "hands-on" experience with electoral research using survey data.
After successfully completing the course, participants are expected to
- understand central concepts such as party identification, partisanship, issue voting, retrospective voting, incumbency advantage etc.
- be able to apply these concepts to empirical research using survey data and to test hypotheses involving these concepts
- have acquired practical skills to conduct research for their own master theses.
Mandatory literature:
- Evans, Jocelyn A.J. 2004. Voters & Voting. London: Sage.
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