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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Martin Elff
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Wahlverhalten
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 18
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
Elections are a central element of representative democracy. It is therefore important to understand how electoral systems influence electoral results, which motives of the voters guide their decisions and when and why they actually take part in elections. Building on the module "Introduction to Political Sociology" the course offers students a further opportunity to engage with the study of electoral behaviour. The course covers the following topics:
- Predicting elections and election-day forecasts
- Electoral systems and their impact on electoral results
- The impact of electoral campaigns
- Candidates and the effects of their performance and personality traits
- Issues, issue orientation and political ideology
- Retrospective voting, the economic situation and voting
- Partisanship and party identification
- Social groups, social structure and electoral behaviour
- Electoral turnout and voter mobilisation
The topics are dicussed in the context of current and of previous U.S. presidential elections.
Educational objective:
Aim of the course is to provide an understanding of the fundamental concepts and theories in political science research on electoral and attitudinal research. After successful completion of the course, participants are expected to be able
- to independently study aspects of electoral behaviour
- to develop their own research/study questions in this field
- to successfully apply them in seminar, Humboldt, or final theses.
Mandatory literature:
Arzheimer, Kai, Locelyn Evans, and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. 2017. The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour. London: Sage.
Evans, Jocelyn A.J. 2004. Voters & Voting. London: Sage.
Fisher, Justin, Edward Fieldhouse, Mark Franklin, Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch, and Christopher Wlezien. 2017. The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion. London: Routledge.
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