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Beckmann, Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-9770-3524 (2018). A Structural Perspective on Voter-Party Linkages: The Political Implications of Housing and the Economy. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

At the core of this dissertation is an interest in the connection between voters and parties. Parties have incentives to represent preferences and positions of their voters. The link between voters and parties, however, is influenced by numerous factors. In this dissertation, I focus on the role of the economy and, more particularly, of housing markets on how voters and parties interact. I develop a structural perspective on how asset ownership and the economy affect political behaviour and how these effects, in turn, create incentives for political parties and develop political implications on their own. The dissertation is structured along a stylized political process from voters to parties and evolves around three main chapters. In chapter 2, I investigate in how far homeownership and house price changes affect voting behaviour on the individual level. In the third chapter, I move to the party level and assess in how far political parties respond to fluctuations on housing markets in their programmatic positioning. The fourth chapter builds on the third chapter and asks, more generally, how changes in the economy affect political parties’ positions at elections. In combination, the main contribution of this dissertation is the development of a micro-founded, structural model of voting and party behaviour and a rigorous empirical assessment of its functioning on different levels of analysis.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Translated abstract:	Abstract Language UNSPECIFIED English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Beckmann, Paul beckmann@wiso.uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0002-9770-3524 UNSPECIFIED
Contributors:	Contribution Name Email UNSPECIFIED Röth, Dr. Leonce leonce.roeth@uni-koeln.de
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-97161
Date:	18 October 2018
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Political Science > Cologne Center for Comparative Politics
Subjects:	Social sciences Political science Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Political Parties English Political Representation English Political Economy English Housing English
Date of oral exam:	4 February 2019
Referee:	Name Academic Title Kaiser, André Prof. Dr. Proksch, Sven-Oliver Prof. Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/9716