Wahlkreisarbeit zahlt sich doppelt aus – Zur Wirkung des Amtsinhaberstatus einer Partei auf ihren Zweitstimmenanteil bei den Bundestagswahlen 1949 bis 1998

Abstract

Since the early 1990s, more than 30 countries have introduced electoral systems that combine first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies with elements of proportional representation. It is therefore not surprising that the initial academic reluctance with which such combined electoral systems were approached, based on the ideal-typical distinction between proportional and first-past-the-post systems, has since given way to considerable research interest (Massicotte and Blais 1999; Shugart and Wattenberg 2001; Ferrara et al. 2005). Not only the emergence of such electoral systems (Bawn 1993; Shugart 2001), but also their significance for strategic voting and the entry of new parties into political competition have been extensively studied (Bawn 1999; Gschwend et al. 2003; Moser and Scheiner 2005). The literature has also analyzed the influence of combined electoral systems on the behavior of legislators (Lancaster and Patterson 1990; Stratmann and Baur 2002; Bawn and Thies 2003) and the development of party systems (Shugart and Wattenberg 2001; Ferrara et al. 2005).

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