Publikationen

Hunklinger, Michael & Niklas Ferch (2020): Trans* voting: demand and supply side of trans* politics in Germany. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(3), S. 389-408. 

Zusammenfassung
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), S. 118-135

Zusammenfassung
Die vorliegende explorative Studie widmet sich dem Wahlverhalten von LGBTIQ-Personen im Kontext der Abgeordnetenhauswahl in Berlin (2016) und der Gemeinderatswahl in Wien (2015). Untersucht wird erstens die queer-politische Agenda der Parteien und zweitens das Wahlverhalten von LGBTIQ, einer bislang in der Wahlforschung weitestgehend ignorierten Bevölkerungsgruppe. Der Vergleich der untersuchten Wahlprogramme zeigt, dass queer-politische Themen Marker für Differenz und Konkurrenz im Parteienwettbewerb darstellen. Die Ergebnisse der Onlinebefragung zeigen, dass die Methode eines selbstselektiven Samples geeignet ist, um die politischen Präferenzen von LGBTIQ-Personen zu untersuchen. Die Parteipräferenz für grüne Parteien ist sowohl in Berlin als auch in Wien ausgeprägt. Jenseits dessen gibt es indes in Berlin wie auch in Wien LGBTIQ-Personen, die rechtspopulistische Parteien und Positionen unterstützen.

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