Ältere gehen eher zur Wahl. Zudem wächst ihr Anteil an den Wahlberechtigten. Spätestens bei der Bundestagswahl 2021 werden mehr als die Hälfte der Wähler über 55 Jahre alt sein. Was das bedeuten kann, zeichnete sich schon im Rentenwahlkampf 2013 ab. Beim TV-Duett 2017 sprachen die...

Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major factor that explains voter alignment in Africa. The paper maintains that the cleavage model, although modified to include ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best...

For many years women tended to vote more conservative than men (the 'old' gender vote gap), but since the 1980s this gap in many countries has shifted direction: now women in many countries are more likely to support left parties than men of the same age, in the same income bracket, and at the...