Heiko Giebler, Bernhard Weßels, and Andreas M. Wüst
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199662630
- eISBN:
- 9780191756191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199662630.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Local campaigning of candidates during federal elections has become an increasingly important topic in electoral research—not just in majoritarian electoral systems. This chapter delivers a detailed ...
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Local campaigning of candidates during federal elections has become an increasingly important topic in electoral research—not just in majoritarian electoral systems. This chapter delivers a detailed analysis of the effects of such campaigns in the context of the mixed electoral system applied in the 2009 Bundestag election in Germany. Based on three analytical steps—explaining constituency results, validating citizens’ awareness of candidates’ campaign efforts, and incorporating the evaluations of candidates’ efforts by citizens into an individual level vote choice model—we can show that local campaigns indeed matter. Nevertheless, our analysis shows that party-related factors also play an important role and that candidates’ have to choose their campaigns strategies wisely depending on the context and on those voters they want or have to address. Personalized local campaigning does not come without costs and has to be used strategically to increase to probability of electoral success.Less
Local campaigning of candidates during federal elections has become an increasingly important topic in electoral research—not just in majoritarian electoral systems. This chapter delivers a detailed analysis of the effects of such campaigns in the context of the mixed electoral system applied in the 2009 Bundestag election in Germany. Based on three analytical steps—explaining constituency results, validating citizens’ awareness of candidates’ campaign efforts, and incorporating the evaluations of candidates’ efforts by citizens into an individual level vote choice model—we can show that local campaigns indeed matter. Nevertheless, our analysis shows that party-related factors also play an important role and that candidates’ have to choose their campaigns strategies wisely depending on the context and on those voters they want or have to address. Personalized local campaigning does not come without costs and has to be used strategically to increase to probability of electoral success.
David Hardiman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190920678
- eISBN:
- 9780190943233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190920678.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
The third chapter shows how the methods that Gandhi developed in South Africa were applied in practice in three movements in rural India that occurred in the second decade of the twentieth century. ...
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The third chapter shows how the methods that Gandhi developed in South Africa were applied in practice in three movements in rural India that occurred in the second decade of the twentieth century. The chapter starts with a struggle in Bijoliya in princely India that had nothing to do with Gandhi initially. This brings out how such resistance was already being developed in popular local campaigns, showing how in time they linked up with Gandhi and began to apply a more strict and principled form of nonviolence. The other two struggles – in Champaran and Kheda – were led directly by Gandhi. Although the author has written already on the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 in his1981 book Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat, he treats the topic in a new way here, focusing on its importance in the history of nonviolent struggle.Less
The third chapter shows how the methods that Gandhi developed in South Africa were applied in practice in three movements in rural India that occurred in the second decade of the twentieth century. The chapter starts with a struggle in Bijoliya in princely India that had nothing to do with Gandhi initially. This brings out how such resistance was already being developed in popular local campaigns, showing how in time they linked up with Gandhi and began to apply a more strict and principled form of nonviolence. The other two struggles – in Champaran and Kheda – were led directly by Gandhi. Although the author has written already on the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 in his1981 book Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat, he treats the topic in a new way here, focusing on its importance in the history of nonviolent struggle.
