An Attempt to Position the German Political Parties on a Tree for 2013 and 2017

Prisner Erich ()
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Prisner Erich: Franklin University Switzerland, Via Ponte Tresa 29, Sorengo-Lugano 6924, Switzerland

Statistics, Politics and Policy, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 31-56

Abstract: We try to calculate the position of the six largest German political parties to each other in 2013 and 2017, based on data of Wahl-O-Mat, a German Voting Advice Application. Different to other existing approaches, we do not try to locate these parties in an Euclidean space, but rather on topological trees (with the straight line, the usual left-right model, being the simplest one). This approach has the advantage that – different to two- or higher dimensional spaces – our model allows betweenness information, keeping the parties linearly ordered at least at parts of the tree, with possible conclusions about center or periphery of the political landscape, and possible coalitions. We do not focus primarily on distance but after the topological model is found, we attempt to approximate these distances, in a second step.

Date: 2018
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