@article{2018:schultze:realignmen,
title = {Realignment oder das Ende normaler Politik? Wahlen im Wandel des historisch-politischen Kontextes},
year = {2018},
note = {Using the analytical tools of V.O. Key’s “theory of critical
elections” and Peter Hall’s concept of paradigmatic “third order
change”, the article places democratic electoral processes in
changing socio-historical contextual environments, discusses in a
systematic as well as a diachronic perspective the parameters of both
change processes in their dialectic relationship. It goes on to
identify the various contextual variables that either determine
long-term stability in the electorate and party system or that cause
upheaval and deeply rooted structural changes in participation forms
and in voting behaviour. Empirically, the analysis focusses on the
case of the German electoral history, with special emphasis on the
critical elections and paradigmatic policy changes in the recent
electoral history.},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {729--743},
author = {Schultze, Rainer-Olaf},
volume = {49},
number = {4}
}