The project is based on a representative survey of candidates, delegates and party members using standardised questionnaires at the constituency meetings in 104 constituencies and 52 regional associations. We worked together with the opinion research institutes policy matters by Richard Hilmer and USUMA GmbH. In addition, we conducted participant observation and background interviews in order to gain a comprehensive picture of the nomination meetings and the upstream decision-making processes, which have hardly been researched to date.
19,785 party members were surveyed in 104 constituencies and 52 lists by the Berlin-based opinion research institute policy matters. The response rate was 51.1%. Four largely identical questionnaires were distributed, differentiated according to the status of the respondents (candidates or selectors) and selection level (constituency or state level). Further information on the representative survey for the candidate nomination can be found in the accompanying Method report.
Information on data protection in the context of our project can be found here.
The aim of the qualitative survey is to reconstruct events and decisions that took place before the constituency meetings. To this end, 425 semi-standardised guided interviews were conducted with party members, 228 of which were at constituency level and 197 at state level. The audio material, totalling 63 hours, was fully transcribed. The transcripts and notes are currently being analysed using the MAXQDA analysis software.
Further information on the semi-standardised guided interviews can be found in the accompanying Method report.
A total of 125 nomination events were scientifically observed, including 72 constituency and 53 state list nominations. Most of the meetings were randomly selected. In addition to the IParl team, 43 employees were also deployed.
You can find more information on the participatory observation of constellation meetings in the associated Method report.
The media analysis catalogues press articles as supplementary sources of information on the 2017 Bundestag candidate line-up, allowing both additional information to be collected as part of in-depth studies and statements to be made on the number and type of reports. Over 700 articles have already been recorded and catalogued.
The analysis of the statutes analyses the parties' regulations on the nomination of candidates. For this purpose, not only the statutes themselves were analysed, but also all available written rules relating to the nomination of candidates by the parties at federal and state level (e.g. election regulations, rules of procedure, women's statutes). A total of 172 documents were analysed.
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