13:50 - 15:30
Room: Club B
Chair/s:
Christian Wilhelm Haerpfer
Discussant - Jakub Charvát

Christian Haerpfer - National Elections in Europe and Northern America, 2020 - 2025 (TRUEDEM)
Elisabeth Donat - Attitude Clusters and Polarization Risks in Europe: Linking Climate Change Awareness and Attitudes toward Non-Heteronormative Lifestyles TRUEDEM
Petr Bláha - Between Us and Them: The Polarising Effects of Social and Political Boundaries (TRUEDEM)
Kseniya Kizilova - The Polarizing Effects of Information Environment and Media Use for Political Trust (TRUEDEM)
 
Submission 462
National Elections in Europe and Northern America, 2020 - 2025 (TRUEDEM)
Panel.3-S-3
Presented by: Christian Haerpfer
Christian Haerpfer
University of Vienna Austria
The proposed paper is an analysis of National Elections in Europe and Northern America in the time period 2020 - 2025. The paper will present the electoral statistics of national parliamentary elections in Europe and North America like turnout, electoral volatility, fractionalisation of party systems and regional patterns of voting behaviour in Europe and North America. The paper will also analyse the impact of social structure and demography upon electoral behaviour. Topics will be the influence of gender, age, education, income, urban-rural differences, social class, values upon voting behaviour in Europe and North America. The data-base will be National General Election Studies in the respective countries like the General Election Study in the United Kingdom. Additional data.bases will be the European Values Survey (EVS), the World Values Survey (WVS) as well as the European Social Survey (ESS). The study will also analyse the TRUEDEM Survey on 'Trust in European Democracies', which has been conducted in Summer 2025 in 24 member states of the European Union in the context of national elections. The core of the paper is a comparative study of National and Parliamentary Elections in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, and Scandinavian countries. One aim of the paper is to find out, if the voting behaviour in Europe shows regional patterns between North Europe, West Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and South Europe.