Political Preferences and Political Behaviour in the European Political Space
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Published in In Detlef Jahn and Nikolaus Werz (eds.), Politische Systeme und Beziehungen im Ostseeraum. Olzog, München, pp. 57–79., 2002
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2002. "Die baltischen Staaten." In Detlef Jahn and Nikolaus Werz (eds.), Politische Systeme und Beziehungen im Ostseeraum. München: Olzog, pp. 57–79.
Published in In Sabine Kropp, Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer, and Roland Sturm (eds.), Koalitionen in West- und Osteuropa. Leske + Budrich, Opladen, pp. 272–300., 2002
Recommended citation: Jahn, Detlef, and Guido Tiemann. 2002. "Koalitionen in den baltischen Staaten: Lehrstücke für die Bedeutung funktionierender Parteien." In Sabine Kropp, Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer, and Roland Sturm (eds.), Koalitionen in West- und Osteuropa. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, pp. 272–300.
Published in In Susanne Pickel, Gert Pickel, Hans-Joachim Lauth, and Detlef Jahn (eds.), Vergleichende Politikwissenschaftliche Methoden: Neue Entwicklungen und Diskussionen. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, pp. 265–287., 2003
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2003. "Das \"most different systems design\" als Instrument zum Umgang mit multipler Kausalität." In Susanne Pickel, Gert Pickel, Hans-Joachim Lauth, and Detlef Jahn (eds.), Vergleichende Politikwissenschaftliche Methoden. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 265–287.
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Published in VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2006
Published monograph based on the doctoral dissertation (European University Viadrina, 2005, Summa Cum Laude). The book provides a systematic comparative analysis of electoral systems, party systems, and political representation across postcommunist Eastern Europe, combining quantitative cross-national evidence with institutional analysis.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2006. Wahlsysteme, Parteiensysteme und politische Repräsentation in Osteuropa. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
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Published in In Gert Pickel and Susanne Pickel (eds.), Demokratisierung im internationalen Vergleich: Neuere Erkenntnisse und Perspektiven. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 211–236., 2006
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2006. "Das Endogenitätsproblem politischer Institutionen und die Optionen von \"Electoral\" und \"Constitutional Engineering\"." In Gert Pickel and Susanne Pickel (eds.), Demokratisierung im internationalen Vergleich. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 211–236.
Published in In Amelie Kutter and Vera Trappmann (eds.), Das Erbe des Beitritts. Nomos, Baden-Baden, pp. 171–188., 2006
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2006. "Euroskeptische Parteien zwischen Strategie und Ideologie." In Amelie Kutter and Vera Trappmann (eds.), Das Erbe des Beitritts. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 171–188.
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Published in Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2006
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2006. Review of Michael Holländer, Konfliktlinien und Konfigurationen der Parteiensysteme in Ostmitteleuropa 1988–2002. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 37(1): 233–235.
Published in In Frank Bönker and Jan Wielgohs (eds.), Postsozialistische Transformation und europäische (Des-)Integration. Metropolis, Marburg, pp. 167–174., 2008
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2008. "Externe Aspekte der Transition, Konsolidierung und Qualifizierung von Demokratien." In Frank Bönker and Jan Wielgohs (eds.), Postsozialistische Transformation und europäische (Des-)Integration. Marburg: Metropolis, pp. 167–174.
Published in In Dieter Segert and Ellen Bos (eds.), Osteuropäische Demokratien als Trendsetter? Parteien und Parteiensysteme nach dem Ende des Übergangsjahrzehnts. Budrich, Opladen, pp. 33–53., 2008
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2008. "\"Cleavages\" oder \"Legacies\"? Die Institutionalisierung und Struktur des politischen Wettbewerbs im postsozialistischen Osteuropa." In Dieter Segert and Ellen Bos (eds.), Osteuropäische Demokratien als Trendsetter? Opladen: Budrich, pp. 33–53.
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Published in In Martin Höpner and Armin Schäfer (eds.), Die politische Ökonomie der Europäischen Integration. Campus, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 241–276., 2008
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2008. "Soziöökonomische Determinanten von Euroskeptizismus und Integrationsorientierung." In Martin Höpner and Armin Schäfer (eds.), Die politische Ökonomie der Europäischen Integration. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, pp. 241–276.
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Published in Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2009
Der Beitrag untersucht die möglichen politischen Konsequenzen eines stellvertretenden Elternwahlrechts, bei dem Eltern zusätzliche Stimmen für ihre minderjährigen Kinder abgeben würden. Auf der Grundlage von Umfragedaten und Simulationen wird analysiert, wie ein solches Wahlrecht die Parteienpräferenzen und die politische Repräsentation verschiedener Altersgruppen verschieben würde. Die Befunde zeigen, dass ein Elternwahlrecht die Stellung von Parteien mit familien- und sozialpolitischen Programmen stärken, zugleich aber erhebliche normative und praktische Probleme aufwerfen würde.
Recommended citation: Goerres, Achim, and Guido Tiemann. 2009. "Kinder an die Macht? Die politischen Konsequenzen eines stellvertretenden Elternwahlrechts." Politische Vierteljahresschrift 50(1): 50–74.
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Published in In Gert Pickel, Susanne Pickel, Hans-Joachim Lauth, and Detlef Jahn (eds.), Methoden der vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft: Neue Entwicklungen und Anwendungen. VS Verlag, pp. 213–232., 2009
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2009. "Instrumente zum Umgang mit heterogenen Daten und Kausalbeziehungen: Time-Series-Cross-Section- und Mehrebenenanalysen." In Gert Pickel, Susanne Pickel, Hans-Joachim Lauth, and Detlef Jahn (eds.), Methoden der vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 213–232.
Published in facultas.wuv (UTB), Wien, 2011
Co-authored textbook on the European Union and its citizens, covering public opinion on European integration, EU institutions, party competition in European elections, and the relationship between citizens and the supranational polity.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido, Oliver Treib, and Andreas Wimmel. 2011. Die EU und ihre Bürger. Wien: facultas.wuv (UTB).
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Published in In Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Florian Grotz (eds.), Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Die neuen EU-Staaten im Vergleich. VS Verlag, pp. 127–146., 2011
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2011. "Parteiensysteme — Stabilität und Wandel." In Ferdinand Müller-Rommel and Florian Grotz (eds.), Regierungssysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Die neuen EU-Staaten im Vergleich. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 127–146.
Published in In Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo A. Morlino (eds.), IPSA International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Sage., 2011
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2011. "Voting Rules, Effects." In Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo A. Morlino (eds.), IPSA International Encyclopedia of Political Science. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Published in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2012
This article examines the degree to which political parties and party systems in post-communist Eastern Europe have become nationalised — that is, the extent to which party support is homogeneously distributed across the national territory. Drawing on a newly compiled dataset of district-level electoral results across twelve post-communist democracies from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, the article documents wide variation in levels of nationalization, identifies longitudinal trends, and tests institutional and sociological explanations for cross-national and cross-temporal differences.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2012. "The Nationalization of Political Parties and Party Systems in Post-Communist Eastern Europe." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 45(1–2): 77–89.
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Published in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 2013
Der Beitrag analysiert die möglichen politischen Konsequenzen einer Einführung des Mehrheitswahlrechts in Österreich. Auf der Grundlage von Distriktdaten zu österreichischen Nationalratswahlen und Simulationsanalysen wird untersucht, welche Partei von einem solchen Systemwechsel profitieren würde, wie stark die Disproportionalität stiege und welche Implikationen dies für die Fragmentierung und Polarisierung des österreichischen Parteiensystems hätte. Die Befunde zeigen, dass das Mehrheitswahlrecht erhebliche und asymmetrische Repräsentationsverzerrungen erzeugen würde.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2013. "Ausweg Mehrheitswahl? Die politischen Konsequenzen eines Mehrheitswahlsystems in Österreich." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 42(1): 5–24.
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Published in European Union Politics, 2013
This article demonstrates that projection effects — the systematic tendency of voters to misperceive party positions as closer to their own ideal points than they actually are — introduce severe specification bias into spatial models of voting in European Parliament elections. Using Monte Carlo simulations and reanalyses of European Election Studies data, the article shows that ignoring projection inflates proximity effects and distorts the comparison between competing spatial utility specifications. Correcting for projection substantially alters substantive conclusions about the relative importance of proximity and directional voting in the EP context.
Recommended citation: Grand, Peter, and Guido Tiemann. 2013. "Projection Effects and Specification Bias in Spatial Models of EP Elections." European Union Politics 13(4): 497–521.
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Published in Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, 2014
Der Beitrag vergleicht drei räumliche Modelle des Wahlverhaltens — das Nähemodell, das Diskontierungsmodell und das Richtungsmodell — in ihrer Anwendung auf Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament. Auf der Grundlage von Daten der Europäischen Wahlstudien wird untersucht, ob die Annahme zentripetaler Parteienkonkurrenz empirisch haltbar ist, oder ob Diskontierungs- und Richtungslogiken die zentrifugalen Tendenzen der EP-Wahlforschung besser abbilden. Die Befunde sprechen gegen eine rein proximale Deutung des Wahlverhaltens und legen eine Kombination von Nähe- und Richtungsrationalitäten nahe.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2014. "Zentripetale Parteienkonkurrenz? Nähe-, Diskontierungs- und Richtungsmodelle bei Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament." Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 8: 133–169.
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Published in In Tanjev Schultz and Klaus Hurrelmann (eds.), Wahlrecht für Kinder? Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, pp. 188–200., 2014
Recommended citation: Goerres, Achim, and Guido Tiemann. 2014. "Älter werden sie von allein: Die Verteidigung eines Wahlrechts mit Altersgrenze." In Tanjev Schultz and Klaus Hurrelmann (eds.), Wahlrecht für Kinder? Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 188–200.
Published in DGAPanalyse (German Council on Foreign Relations), 2014
Policy analysis piece for the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) examining coalition dynamics in EU institutions following the Lisbon Treaty reforms.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2014. "Coalition Building in the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers under Lisbon." DGAPanalyse 20: 33–36.
Published in Journal of Common Market Studies, 2015
This article examines the impact of economic perceptions on vote choice in elections to the European Parliament (EP), building on the debate about whether EP contests function as second-order national elections or as genuinely European contests. Combining individual-level survey data from the European Election Studies with aggregate economic indicators, the article demonstrates that both sociotropic and egotropic economic evaluations independently affect EP vote choice, and that the salience of economic voting in the EP context varies systematically with the state of the national economy.
Recommended citation: Bartkowska, Monika, and Guido Tiemann. 2015. "The Impact of Economic Perceptions on Voting Behaviour in European Parliamentary Elections." Journal of Common Market Studies 53(2): 201–217.
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Published in West European Politics, 2015
This article revisits Duverger’s mechanical and psychological effects by examining the interplay between district-level electoral rules and national political contexts in shaping the effective number of parties. Drawing on a large comparative dataset of district-level results from Western European democracies, it demonstrates that national party-system parameters substantially modify the impact of district magnitude on local party proliferation, and that standard models ignoring this cross-level interaction are systematically mis-specified.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2015. "Local Districts, National Contexts, and the Number of Parties." West European Politics 38(1): 123–144.
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Published in Electoral Studies, 2019
Classical spatial models of voting assume strictly concave — that is, risk-averse — voter utility functions, implying that voters systematically prefer centrist parties. This article challenges that assumption by examining whether the empirical distribution of utility function shapes across European electorates is consistent with strict risk-aversion. Using European Election Studies data, the article demonstrates that large segments of contemporary electorates are best characterised as risk-neutral or even risk-seeking, which helps explain the persistent success of non-centrist parties in both national and European Parliament elections.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2019. "The shape of utility functions and voter attitudes towards risk." Electoral Studies 61: 102051.
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Published in Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, 2019
Der Beitrag entwickelt eine systematische Unterscheidung zwischen Risiko und Knightscher Unsicherheit im Rahmen räumlicher Wahlmodelle. Ausgehend von der Prämisse, dass klassische Modelle die epistemische Situation der Wähler unzureichend modellieren, werden alternative Spezifikationen der Nutzenfunktion diskutiert und deren Implikationen für die Bewertung zentristischer und nichtcentristischer Parteistrategien abgeleitet. Der Beitrag liefert formale Ableitungen sowie empirische Illustrationen auf Basis von Daten der Europäischen Wahlstudien.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2019. "Zur Spezifizierung von Unsicherheit und Risiko in räumlichen Modellen." Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie 11: 63–92.
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Published in Historical Social Research, 2020
This article re-examines the outcome of the October 1920 Carinthian plebiscite, in which a substantial share of the Slovene-speaking population voted for Austria rather than the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Drawing on disaggregated precinct-level electoral data and newly assembled sociodemographic contextual indicators, it challenges established interpretations that portray the result primarily as an expression of ethnic or linguistic identity, and offers spatial-econometric evidence for a more complex set of economic and institutional determinants of the vote.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2020. "\"Kärnten\"=Austria, \"Koroška\"=Yugoslavia? Some Revisionist Perspectives on the 1920 Carinthian Plebiscite." Historical Social Research 45(4): 309–346.
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Published in Electoral Studies, 2022
This article investigates the contextual and individual-level conditions under which voters follow proximity versus directional voting logics. Drawing on the “mixed model” tradition, it argues that voter sophistication, levels of political information, and the strength of party identification jointly moderate which spatial utility function governs electoral choice. Multilevel analyses of European Election Studies data confirm that more sophisticated and better-informed voters are more likely to apply proximity reasoning, whereas directional logic prevails among less engaged electorates and in lower-salience electoral contexts.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2022. "Conditions of proximity and directional voting: Voter sophistication, political information, and party identification." Electoral Studies 75(1): 102436.
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Published in In Erik Baltz, Sven Kosanke, and Susanne Pickel (eds.), Parties, Institutions and Preferences: The Shape and Impact of Partisan Politics. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 447–460., 2022
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2022. "Projection Effects: Coping with Assimilation and Contrast." In Erik Baltz, Sven Kosanke, and Susanne Pickel (eds.), Parties, Institutions and Preferences: The Shape and Impact of Partisan Politics. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 447–460.
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Published in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2023
This article investigates public attitudes towards welfare deservingness — the perceived legitimacy of social transfers for different recipient groups — and the conditions under which citizens support or oppose sanctions for non-compliant recipients. Drawing on comparative survey data, the article tests a theoretical model that links individual-level values and sociodemographic characteristics to differentiated deservingness judgements across benefit categories and national welfare-state contexts.
Recommended citation: Grand, Peter, and Guido Tiemann. 2023. "The Deserving and the Undeserving: Public Attitudes towards Social Transfers and Sanctions." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie.
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Published in Book chapter on two decades of Austria's participation in the European Social Survey, 2023
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2023. "20 Jahre Österreich im ESS." Book chapter.
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Published in Electoral Studies, 2025
This article advances a unified spatial framework for electoral choice that distinguishes three epistemic conditions: certainty (precise knowledge of party positions), risk (probabilistic beliefs), and Knightian uncertainty (no reliable probability distributions). Moving beyond classical expected-utility specifications, the article demonstrates that empirically adequate vote-choice models must allow for utility functions that vary across these conditions. Tests with European Election Studies data show that voter sophistication and information exposure determine which epistemic regime governs individual choice, and that under uncertainty the salience of spatial vis-à-vis non-spatial components of voter utility shifts substantially.
Recommended citation: Tiemann, Guido. 2025. "Vote Choice under Certainty, Risk, and Uncertainty." Electoral Studies 97(1): 102972.
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