recently entered all state parliaments as well as the federal parliament in Germany. Although professed AfD voters faced a … German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … Germany and the individual disposition to report an AfD preference. Exploiting quasi-random variation in survey interviews … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting … layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions with predetermined variables to unique opinion poll data for the German … state of Berlin and the federal level in Germany. State voting intentions for the state and for the federal parliament are …

. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how … attitudes and actions of politicians in Germany. The results show that German state politicians' and governments' words differed …