The paper compares the two parties' electoral constituencies (in terms of voters’ profile and electoral geography), and looks also at some key organizational aspects. It argues that the two parties display a very different profile. Yet, they also share a key element: they have mobilized voters otherwise not interested to politics, attracting a cross-party consensus. For this reason, should they enter the EP in the 2014 election, thanks to the more favourable 3 per cent threshold, they are bound to represent a significant challenge to the German party system, and therefore to be counted as relevant parties on a longer time span.
So similar, yet so different: Alternative fuer Deutschland and the Pirate Party / G., Baldini; Bolgherini, Silvia. - (2013). ( One-day Authors' Workshop. Germany after the 2013 elections Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna 30 novembre 2013).
So similar, yet so different: Alternative fuer Deutschland and the Pirate Party
BOLGHERINI, SILVIA
2013
Abstract
The paper compares the two parties' electoral constituencies (in terms of voters’ profile and electoral geography), and looks also at some key organizational aspects. It argues that the two parties display a very different profile. Yet, they also share a key element: they have mobilized voters otherwise not interested to politics, attracting a cross-party consensus. For this reason, should they enter the EP in the 2014 election, thanks to the more favourable 3 per cent threshold, they are bound to represent a significant challenge to the German party system, and therefore to be counted as relevant parties on a longer time span.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
