Dealignment

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In electoral research , dealignment describes the process of losing party identifications that can be determined across national borders . After Ann Arbor model is thus a rise of swing voters , but at least with an increase of swing voters potential to be expected and a growing importance of short-term factors, ie the issue- and candidate orientation . The opposite, i.e. a strengthening of party identification, is called realignment .

literature

  • Sarlvik, Ben, and Ivor Crewe. "Decade of dealignment." Cambridge: Cambridge University (1983).
  • Electoral change in advanced industrial democracies: realignment or dealignment ?. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
  • Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger, and Peter R. Schrott. "Dealignment through the mass media? On the thesis of the weakening of party ties as a result of media expansion." Elections and voters. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1994. 543-572.