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  • The voter is increasingly unpredictable and party identification is in decline. This chapter argues that voting decisions contribute to processes of de-alignment. By deciding whether to vote or to abstain, or whether to cast the vote sincerely or to defect from one’s “own” party, the individual voter contributes actively to the (in)stability of his/her party identification and, thus, as an aggregate pattern, to declining levels of partisanship in the electorate. Moreover, multilevel electoral systems introduce a different quality of elections. So-called second-order elections, which are perceived to be of lesser importance in comparison to the national first-order election, offer opportunities to abstain or vote differently at an apparently “low cost.” By not voting, or voting differently, however, older attachments fade away. We show that party defection in second-order elections is as consequential as party disloyalty in first-order elections. Therefore, multilevel voting is a significant force towards rising volatility and the decline of stable party identification. (xsd:string)
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  • Voting complexitiy in a multilayered system. Or: how voting choices in Second-order elections impact the stability of party identification (xsd:string)
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  • In Voters on the Move or on the Run?, edited by Weßels, Bernhard and Rattinger, Hans and Roßteutscher, Sigrid and Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, 88-114, Oxford University Press, 2014 (xsd:string)
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