Fight voting

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Combat vote or alternative vote (or fight candidate in person elections ; in Switzerland explosive candidate ) is a term used in politics and in Germany refers to a vote of an assembly or a committee from which several options are available. However, the term bout voting is only used when both options stand a chance of a majority. Otherwise one speaks of counting candidates in the case of candidacies .

A battle vote is a special form of vote in which the preparation and course of a vote is contested and the outcome of the vote is open. Such a situation arises when the actors involved ( actor in the sociological sense) have little information about the real balance of power, when two or more groups face each other with roughly the same prospects for a majority, or when a strongly mobilized minority opposes a passive majority and this can therefore expect proportionally higher chances of success in a vote than its actual strength at a time before the vote suggests.

The term is common in press jargon and is used in mass media . It is mainly used to distinguish between votes, the course and outcome of which can be foreseen with a high degree of probability .

Combat votes are also spoken of when votes are enforced by a subordinate level against the will of the management level, which is typically possible in many organizations - in companies as well as in associations - according to the statutes , but is usually only used in exceptional cases.

Voting in struggle in the practice of party democracy

Even if votes are the usual means of decision-making in a democracy , combat votes in parties are the exception. With regard to the party's program, it is necessary to find the broadest possible consensus . A party that is deeply divided in terms of content is at a disadvantage in the competition between parties. In the public eye, battle votes are viewed as damaging to the company's image as a sign of quarreling.

It is therefore customary in all parties to design party programs in such a way that only individual issues are decided in combat votes, but the overall program is adopted by a large majority without alternative proposals. Organizationally, this is supported by application commissions .

In the case of candidacies for public offices and mandates (here the election preparation committee has a comparable function), combat candidates are much more frequent if the old incumbent no longer runs. Combat candidates are also much more common when the odds are high.

Examples

literature

  • Bodo Zeuner : List of candidates for the 1965 Bundestag election. Investigations into the formation of wills within the party and the selection of political leaders (= studies on government doctrine and international politics. Vol. 2). Nijhoff, The Hague 1970, ISBN 90-247-0506-1 (also: Berlin, Freie Universität, philos. Dissertation, 1968).

Web links

Wiktionary: Match voting  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Zeuner: List of candidates for the 1965 federal election. 1970, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Match voting in Duden online.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Rupp: How ungovernable is the republic? The neoconservative social state criticism in Germany. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4828-5 , p. 67, online .
  4. ↑ z. B. Bodo Zeuner: List of candidates for the 1965 Bundestag election. 1970, p. 39.
  5. ↑ Joachim Frite-Vannahme: Bernhard Vogel resigns. In: The time . November 18, 1988. Retrieved May 25, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Anja Wunsch: Scharping loses party leadership. In: Rheinische Post . November 16, 2004, accessed May 25, 2012 .
  7. Jump up vote - Nahles becomes SPD general secretary . In: SPIEGEL Online from October 31, 2005.
  8. ^ The destructive vote of no confidence . In: SPIEGEL Online from September 25, 2018.