An article entitled "Method Factors in Democracy Indicators" just has appeared in Politics and Governance. It analyses the degree to which democracy indicators are influenced by the orginisation that created them. It shows that the origin of indicators in particular affects the detection of change in regimes.
A handbook chapter on "Ideology and Electoral Choice" has appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion_.
It discusses various conceptions of ideology -- from the history of ideas to (social) psychology and the empirical evidence about the influence of ideological orientations on voting behaviour.
The Sage Handbook of Electoral Behaviour, contains a contribution of the role of relgion in shaping electoral behaviour, authored by Sigrid Roßteutscher and me is now available from Sage Publications.
German Politics published an article with the title "Social Cleavages and Electoral Behaviour in Long-Term Perspective: Alignment without Mobilisation?" as part of a special issue of the German Bundestag election of 2013.
A chapter entitled "Parteiwahl und Nichtwahl: Zur Rolle sozialer Konfliktlinien" has appeared in Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl von 2013 (ed. by Harald Schoen and Bernhard Wessels) and is now available from Springer.
At the 5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association I had the opportunity to present a paper entitled "The Crisis of Social Democracy and the Political Demobilisation of the Working Class in Germany". In this paper I analyse the dual decline of turnout in Germany and of the support for the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). I show that both changes are linked and concentrated in a core group of SPD supporters, the manual working class.
