Publications
Hunklinger, Michael, Niklas Ferch & Dorothée de Nève (2021): If LGBTQ voters had decided Germany’s election, the Greens would be in charge. Washington Post, 12 October 2021.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/12/if-lgbtq-voters-had-decided-germanys-election-greens-would-be-charge/
Hunklinger, Michael (2021): Voting for Diversity? Politische Einstellungen und formale politische Partizipation von schwulen und lesbischen Bürger_innen in Deutschland. Momentum Quarterly, 10(1), pp. 20-34. (in German)
Abstract
The article deals with political attitudes (Gabriel 2009) and formal political participation (Ekman/Amna 2012) on an individual level (elections) and on a collective level (membership in political parties, NGOs and trade unions) of gay and lesbian citizens in Germany. The majority of gay and lesbian voters who participated in the survey supported a progressive agenda and voted for progressive or left-wing parties. The most important issues for their voting decision were discrimination and homophobia, migration and the environment. In terms of formal political participation at the collective level, gay men are more involved in political parties than lesbian women, who are more active in NGOs.
https://doi.org/10.15203/momentumquarterly.vol10.no1.p20-34
Hunklinger, Michael & Niklas Ferch (2020): Trans* voting: demand and supply side of trans* politics in Germany. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(3), pp. 389-408.
Abstract
Trans* people and trans* issues have been part of the scientific literature for over a decade, though framed most of the time under umbrella terms such as ‘LGBT’ or ‘LGBTIQ*’ and often without further consideration regarding trans*-specific issues. In this article, we take an emancipatory approach and focus on trans* people as political subjects. For the first time, we thus present data on the political preferences, attitudes and voting behaviour of trans* people in Germany, and put them in relation to the parties’ manifestos for the 2017 German general election (the 2017 Bundestagswahl). We discuss our findings in the theoretical context of trans* citizenship and trans* visibility. This approach positions trans* people as citizens in the centre of analysis and adds to our understanding of the citizenship of minority groups in our modern societies.
https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15780296516691
de Nève, Dorothée & Niklas Ferch (2018): LGBTIQ*-Wähler*innen in Berlin und Wien. Politische Präferenzen, Parteienwettbewerb und elektorale Resonanz. GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10(3), pp. 118-135 (in German)
Abstract
This explorative study investigates the electoral behaviour of LGBTIQ individuals in the context of state parliamentary elections in Berlin (2016) and municipal elections in Vienna (2015). We investigate both the competing parties’ queer agendas and the electoral behaviour of the LGBTIQ community, a population group which is generally neglected in electoral studies. A comparative analysis of the parties’ election manifestos shows that queer political issues are markers of difference and competition between parties. The findings of the online survey prove that the methodology of a self-selective sample is suit able for studying the political preferences of LGBTIQ individuals. Their preference for Green parties is pronounced both in Berlin and Vienna. Beyond that, however, LGBTIQ individuals in Berlin and in Vienna also support right-wing populist parties and positions.
https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v10i3.09
de Nève, Dorothée, Niklas Ferch, Michael Hunklinger & Tina Olteanu (2018): LGBTIQ*-Wahlstudie 2017 zur Bundestagswahl in Deutschland und zur Nationalratswahl in Österreich. Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27(1), pp. 149-157. (in German)
Abstract
This insight into the results of the LGBTIQ* Election Study 2017 shows that the majority of LGBTIQ* voters who participated in the study vote left or centre-left. In general, however, it is also clear that there is great heterogeneity among LGBTIQ* voters. This can be seen, for example, in the fact that voting preferences within the left-wing spectrum differ greatly with regard to sexual orientation. Furthermore, this is evident on issues of social equality and immigration. Political parties could also draw on the high willingness of a large proportion of LGBTIQ* voters to participate. From a scientific point of view, this study shows that empirical survey research in relation to LGBTIQ* voters requires an expansion of socio-demographic categorisation.
https://doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v27i1.18