Protest voters

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As a protest vote those voters are called, they have voted is dispensed from a political discontent out as a sign of protest.

The phenomenon of the protest voter is methodologically difficult to grasp because the protest is not articulated and can therefore only be inferred indirectly from an election analysis . At first it remains unclear whether the citizen's decision to vote for parties on the left or right of the party spectrum was made out of protest or out of conviction.

To the voting decision

According to conventional opinion, protest voters are for the most part not ideologically determined. Your voting preference fluctuates between left and right-wing populist parties and not voting . Accordingly, many are protest voters swing voters locates. It is controversial to what extent voters of the Greens in the 1980s, the PDS / Left or the Pirate Party can be described as protest voters.

Franz Urban Pappi described the type of rational protest voter. This is usually closer to the people 's parties , but chooses a small radical party that has no realistic prospect of power in order to force the big parties to change their policies. Not voting can be a weakened version of this attitude.

Detailed surveys on the motives and intentions of voters showed that most voters from parties on the fringes of the party system have a certain party affiliation or vote for the party on the basis of certain political areas . By contrast, less than a third of those surveyed gave dissatisfaction with the established parties and their top candidates as the reason for their voting decision. Voters from small parties , including those on the fringes, are generally classified as protest voters, is therefore too undifferentiated.

The more important an election is, the lower the proportion of protest voters tend to be. So never succeeded until the election in 2017 at a federal election of a right-wing or right-wing Party of jumping over the five-percent threshold , while in state elections several times the feed into parliament succeeded ( NPD , REP , DVU ). A higher respect for such elections is assumed to be the cause.

literature

  • Eva Wenzel, Hans Rattinger : Non-voters and protest voters - a strategic factor in the party system? , in: The German party system. Perspectives for the 21st Century , edited by Hans Zehetmair , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, pp. 28–44.

Web links

Wiktionary: Protest voters  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Iris Huth: Political disaffection. Appearances and causes as challenges for the political system and the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany in the 21st century , dissertation University of Münster 2003, LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, (Politics and Participation 3), p. 170.
  2. ↑ Iris Huth: Political disaffection. Appearances and causes as challenges for the political system and political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany in the 21st century , dissertation University of Münster 2003, LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, (Politics and Participation 3), p. 178.
  3. ^ A b Ulrich von Alemann : The party system of the Federal Republic of Germany , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 247.
  4. ^ Dieter Roth : Empirical election research. Origin, theories, instruments and methods , Gabler Wissenschaftsverlage 2008, p. 53.
  5. ^ Eva Wenzel, Hans Rattinger: Non-voters and protest voters - a strategic dimension of the party system? , in: The German party system. Perspectives for the 21st century , published by Hans Zehetmair , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 35.
  6. ^ Eva Wenzel, Hans Rattinger: Non-voters and protest voters - a strategic dimension of the party system? , in: The German party system. Perspectives for the 21st century , published by Hans Zehetmair , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 36.
  7. ^ Eva Wenzel, Hans Rattinger: Non-voters and protest voters - a strategic dimension of the party system? , in: The German party system. Perspectives for the 21st Century , edited by Hans Zehetmair , VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 37.