Germany Still Divided? Analyzing Voting Behavior in East and West Germany
„It can be hard for visitors to Berlin to imagine where the Berlin Wall once separated Germany‘s communist East from the U.S.-friendly West“, as the Washington Post wrote last year in an article which came to the conclusion that the separation of the past prevails today in terms of lifestyles, perceptions, and values. The aim of the lecture is, firstly, to examine with respect to current voting behavior whether East and West Germany are in fact still divided. To do this, analyses of the last national election to the German Bundestag (September 2013) will be presented. Secondly, the lecture will discuss trends and changes in German election campaigns and electoral behavior since the German reunification.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Ohr is Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Freie Universität Berlin; his research focuses on electoral research, political communication, and quantitative methods of data analysis.
17.6.2015 (Wednesday) – 17:00 h
Willy Brandt Center, Strażnicza 1-3, Wrocław
Lecture in English
