Christian Schnaudt

Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl: Die Risiken der Briefwahl stärken vor allem eine Partei Wahlleiter warnen vor der Briefwahl – viele Stimmen könnten auf dem Postweg liegen bleiben. Das könnte die nahende Bundestagswahl zugunsten der AfD verschieben.

"Wahlleiter warnen vor der Briefwahl - viele Stimmen könnten auf dem Postweg liegen bleiben."

Fairness und Integrität von Wahlen und so. Zum Glück sind Wahlen in repräsentativen Demokratien ja nicht soooo wichtig.

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Read this recent article in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, “Mind the gap(s): Winning, losing, and perceptions of electoral integrity in mixed-member proportional systems,” by Christian Schnaudt: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Zu eng geplant: Dresden bittet auf Briefwahl zu verzichten – Zeitpunkt wird zu "heiklem Knackpunkt" Der enge Zeitplan vor der Bundestagswahl stellt Dresden vor große Herausforderungen. Die Stadt appelliert deshalb, möglichst keine Briefwahl zu beantragen.

So was konnte ja niemand ahnen.
Also außer z. B. der Bundeswahlleiterin, die für Warnungen heftig kritisiert wurde…

Do citizens disobey the law when they feel elections are rigged? @cschnaudt.bsky.social examines how perceptions of electoral integrity relate to citizens’ law compliance. Read in @polstudies.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/49uZK4g (OPEN ACCESS)

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Federal #elections in Germany 🇩🇪 are near! Check out my new article on what citizens' views about the quality of elections imply for compliance with governmental laws and regulations. #Bundestagswahl

Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany - Christian Schnaudt, 2024 What if citizens feel that election outcomes are the result of electoral manipulation and fraud rather than the outcome of a genuinely democratic process? Do th...

Menschen, die die korrekte und faire Durchführung von Wahlen bezweifeln, haben zudem eine höhere Akzeptanz für das Nichtbefolgen von Gesetzen und geben an, sich öfters nicht an Vorschriften zu halten.

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Exit or Voice? Behavioral Implications of Electoral-Integrity Beliefs in Germany - Politische Vierteljahresschrift Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of representative democracy. In recent years, however, elections in many advanced democracies have increasingly come under attack by populist actors and rhe...

Menschen, die an der Integrität von Wahlen zweifeln, nehmen grundsätzlich weniger oft an Wahlen teil. Wenn sie allerdings wählen gehen, so stimmen sie eher für Parteien, die vorher nicht Teil der Regierung waren, insbesondere populistische Parteien.

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Desinformation, Sabotage, Cyberangriffe: Verfassungsschutz warnt vor Manipulation der Bundestagswahl 2025 Gefahr aus Russland: Die Spionageabwehr befürchtet, Putins Agenten könnten vor der kommenden Bundestagswahl russlandfreundliche Politiker unterstützen und deren Kritiker mit Schmutzkampagnen überziehe...

"Gleichzeitig sei »die gezielte Diskreditierung ungewünschter Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten« vorstellbar sowie »ein Infragestellen des Wahlprozesses an sich« oder »das Schüren von Zweifeln an der Rechtmäßigkeit und korrekten Durchführung der Wahl«."

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Even in Germany 🇩🇪, a country with a long-standing record of free and fair elections, about 20% of citizens doubt the integrity of the electoral process. What do such doubts imply for citizens‘ compliance with the law? #polisky

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Even in Germany 🇩🇪, a country with a long-standing record of free and fair elections, about 20% of citizens doubt the integrity of the electoral process. What do such doubts imply for citizens‘ compliance with the law? #polisky

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In times of ill-founded assertions about “stolen elections,” these findings entail important implications for the ability of democratic systems to govern effectively and questions of electoral backsliding and democratic erosion more generally.

3️⃣ These views also matter for law-abiding behavior in other domains: Those who consider the electoral process fraudulent and election-related non-compliance justifiable adhere less often to governmental regulations pertaining to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

2️⃣ Those who themselves perceive the integrity of the electoral process and postal voting compromised are more likely to view election-related non-compliance justified.

Main findings:

1️⃣ About 20% of citizens in Germany consider it generally justified to disobey the laws and regulations of a newly elected government if one feels that the integrity of the preceding election has been compromised.

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❓ Do citizens disobey the law when they feel that elections are rigged?

🚨 In a new OA paper @polstudies.bsky.social, I examine this question with German data: "Perceptions of Electoral Integrity and Election-Related (Non-)Compliance: Evidence from Germany" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

Uncovering the flash potential of immigration: attitudes, salience, and far-right support in Europe Abstract. Attitudes toward immigrants and immigration are a central explanation for the electoral support of far-right parties. However, while these partie

In case this is of interest, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I have a paper with a similar argument but using aggregated immigration salience to capture the contexts in which citizens' immigration attitudes might translate more often into far-right support: academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

"Wir treffen in diesem Moment auch eine Entscheidung über unsere politische Kultur."

Conspiracy Beliefs and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity: Cross-National Evidence from 29 Countries Abstract. Extant research shows that belief in conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking are negatively related to citizens’ perceptions about the fa

💡 Ever wondered how the "conspiratorial challenge" to electoral integrity and legitimacy looks across contexts? I have a new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly (AAPOR) that sheds light on exactly that question using data from the European Social Survey. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Oppression of Catholics in Prussia does not explain spatial differences in support for the radical right in Germany. A critique of Haffert (2022) A growing literature links contemporary far-right mobilization to the “legacies” of events in the distant past, but often, the effects are small, and …

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Electoral integrity and voting: The interplay of individual perceptions and contextual conditions - ...

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