Electoral outcomes and local party presence
How does local party presence affect electoral performance and electoral volatility of new parties? Previous research has often argued how local roots may benefit parties electorally. Furthermore, local branches can also provide a community of likeminded people solidifying support and building stabile grass roots that ultimately may not only increase local party voteshare but also limits the volatility of votes over elections.
To investigate this empirically, I explore the case of Germany and focus mainly on the Green Party in the 1980s and the AfD in the 2010s/2020s. There are two major issues when analyzing this:
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Population size
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Political leanings




You can also put regular text between your rows of images, even citations (missing reference). Say you wanted to write a bit about your project before you posted the rest of the images. You describe how you toiled, sweated, bled for your project, and then… you reveal its glory in the next row of images.


The code is simple.
Just wrap your images with <div class="col-sm">
and place them inside <div class="row">
(read more about the Bootstrap Grid system).
To make images responsive, add img-fluid
class to each; for rounded corners and shadows use rounded
and z-depth-1
classes.
Here’s the code for the last row of images above:
<div class="row justify-content-sm-center">
<div class="col-sm-8 mt-3 mt-md-0">
{% include figure.liquid path="assets/img/6.jpg" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded z-depth-1" %}
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4 mt-3 mt-md-0">
{% include figure.liquid path="assets/img/11.jpg" title="example image" class="img-fluid rounded z-depth-1" %}
</div>
</div>