Hans-Dieter Klingemann earned his academic degrees from the University of Cologne (1966: Dr. rer. pol.) and from the University of Mannheim (1978: Dr. habil.). He has held academic positions at the University of Cologne (1966-74), the Center for Survey Research (ZUMA), Mannheim (1974-80), the Free University of Berlin (1980-2002), and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (1989-2003). In the profession Professor Klingemann has served as Vice-President (1982/83) and President of the International Society of Political Psychology (1986/87), as member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (1988/94), as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (1994/97), as President of the German Paul Lazarsfeld-Society (1994/99), and as President of the European Political Science Network (2002-2005).

• Preface


• Foreword


• About the Contributors


• Part I Introduction


• 1: Hans-Dieter Klingemann: The Impact of Political Institutions


• Part II The Project


• 2: Ashley Grosse and Andrew Appleton: 'Big Social Science' in Comparative Politics


• 3: David A. Howell and Karen Long Jusko: Methodological Challenges


• Part III Electoral Participation


• 4: Neil Nevitte, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Richard Nadeau: Socio-economic Status and Non-voting


• 5: Susan A. Banducci and Jeffrey A. Karp: Electoral Systems, Efficacy, and Voter Turnout


• Part IV Political Parties, Candidates, and Issues


• 6: Hermann Schmitt: Multiple Party Identifications


• 7: Sören Holmberg: Candidate Recognition in Different Electoral Systems


• 8: John Curtice and W. Phillips Shively: Who Represents Us Best? One Member or Many?


• 9: Yoshitaka Nishizawa: Economic Voting


• 10: Martin Kroh: The Ease of Ideological Voting


• 11: Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Bernhard Wessels: How Voters Cope With the Complexity of Their Political Environment


• Part V Expressive and Instrumental Voting


• 12: Gábor Tóka: Expressive versus Instrumental Motivation of Turnout, Partisanship, and Political Learning


• 13: Thomas Gschwend: District Magnitude and the Comparative Study of Strategic Voting


• Part VI Political Support


• 14: Ola Listhaug, Bernt Aardal, and Ingunn Opheim Ellis: Institutional Variation and Political Support: An Analysis of CSES Data from 29 Countries


• 15: Jacques Thomassen and Henk van der Kolk: Effectiveness and Political Support in Old and New Democracies


• Appendix 1: Final Report of the 1995-6 Planning Committee


• Appendix 2: The micro-level questionnaire of Module 1


• Appendix 3: The macro-level questionnaire of Module 1


• References


• Index