Germany is the geographic focus of this dataset, which examines the growing divergence between Christian churches and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) parties, particularly on migration policy. The data was authored by Marc Debus and last updated on March 16, 2026. It likely contains survey data used to analyze the electoral consequences of this political shift.
Use Cases
- Analyze the divergence between church and party policy positions over time based on the described focus on societal and family policy.
- Model the impact of party repositioning on religious voter support based on the described survey data and electoral consequences.
- Study the overlap of Christian Democratic parties with other ideological families based on the research questions in the description.
- Investigate the salience of the migration policy fault line in German politics based on the central conflict described.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific and salient political conflict in Germany as described.
- Explicitly addresses a longitudinal research question about deviation over time.
- Last updated date is explicitly stated as 2026-03-16.
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
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely contains survey data, as mentioned in the description.
- Time Range
- Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-16 22:19:47; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Germany