TY - JOUR
T1 - Location and political choice in post-unification Berlin
T2 - Explaining the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism) vote, 1999 and 2001
AU - O'Loughlin, John
AU - Witmer, Frank
AU - Ledwith, Valerie
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - A paper examining the factors contributing to the growing electoral support for the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism) in post-unification elections in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) uses detailed data for Berlin's electoral districts to elucidate the micro-geography of the East-West divide in the PDS vote. Using two methods of ecological inference, King's and entropy maximization, the authors show that the explanation of the PDS support in Berlin elections in 1999 and 2001 can be attributed to the "Mauer in den Köpfen" (wall in people's heads) that is coincident with the division of the city along the former Berlin Wall. This geographic division far exceeds any socio-demographic explanation of the PDS vote.
AB - A paper examining the factors contributing to the growing electoral support for the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism) in post-unification elections in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) uses detailed data for Berlin's electoral districts to elucidate the micro-geography of the East-West divide in the PDS vote. Using two methods of ecological inference, King's and entropy maximization, the authors show that the explanation of the PDS support in Berlin elections in 1999 and 2001 can be attributed to the "Mauer in den Köpfen" (wall in people's heads) that is coincident with the division of the city along the former Berlin Wall. This geographic division far exceeds any socio-demographic explanation of the PDS vote.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0141916553
U2 - 10.2747/1538-7216.43.5.349
DO - 10.2747/1538-7216.43.5.349
M3 - Article
SN - 1538-7216
VL - 43
SP - 349
EP - 382
JO - Eurasian Geography and Economics
JF - Eurasian Geography and Economics
IS - 5
ER -