@article{2014:schultze:die_bayeri,
title = {Die bayerische Landtagswahl vom 15. September 2013: Bund und Land Hand in Hand},
year = {2014},
note = {In the election to the Bavarian state parliament on September 2013,
Premier Horst Seehofer and his Christian Social Union (CSU) won 47.7
percent of the total vote. They are once again able to form a
majority/one-party government in the Bavarian legislature. Their
victory is owed to a variety of factors: (1) The socio-structural and
cultural asymmetries in the Bavarian electorate that again worked in
favour of the CSU. (2) The comparative advantage of the Bavarian
economy vis-à-vis the other Länder in the Federal Republic. (3)
Important changes in government policies since 2008, both with regard
to style and content. The CSU tried to be more responsive than in the
past and to better take into account the electorate’s interests and
wishes. (4) The context of the almost contemporaneously held federal
elections just one week later that allowed Seehofer and the CSU to
successfully fight the state election campaign almost exclusively on
the basis of their federal policy agenda – which in turn hindered
the three parliamentary opposition parties to pursue their state
centered electoral campaign strategy. The four elections held in
Bavaria in 2008/2009 and again in 2013/2014 are therefore an excellent
example for studying the multiple interrelations between the four
different election arenas from the local and regional to the federal
and supranational level. [ZParl, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 326 – 348]},
journal = {ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen},
pages = {326--348},
author = {Schultze, Rainer-Olaf},
volume = {45},
number = {2}
}