German Voter Evaluations of Parliamentary Cooperation with the Far-Right

Replication data for a study examining how voters evaluate the willingness of the center-right CDU/CSU to collaborate with the far-right AfD in the German parliament. The study shows voters overwhelmingly reject a coalition but many tolerate issue-specific cooperation under certain conditions. The dataset was authored by Martin Gross and last updated on 2026-04 17.

Use Cases

• Modeling voter trade-offs between principled commitments and instrumental policy goals based on the study's findings.
• Analyzing public tolerance for issue-specific parliamentary cooperation with far-right parties.
• Studying the electoral consequences of the cordon sanitaire (wholesale exclusion) in a legislative arena.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a published study in Comparative Political Studies, providing academic context.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-04-17 14:05:41.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Comparative Political Studies Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely contains survey or experimental data from the associated study.

Time Range

Study focuses on contemporary German politics; specific temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 14:05:41; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany