FREIE WÄHLER: Members, Identity and Organization. A Membership Survey

这项研究采用邮寄调查，将是第一次就独立选举人名单的成员和地方组织结构提供可靠的经验证据。这项研究将覆盖整个德国，并将只侧重于自由维勒协会的成员。该调查还将产生关于FREIE WÄHLER候选人和现任者的结果。研究的中心焦点将是FREIE WÄHLER的身份。简而言之：解释参与的相关因素是什么？FREIE WÄHLER成员的社会人口特征和政治倾向是什么？这些结果与关于政党和地方选举名单的研究结果相比如何？FREIE WÄHLER是一个组织混合体，由一个类似政党的组织（Bundesvereinigung）和一个选举名单协会（Landesverbände和Bundesverband）组成。这项研究将首次涵盖整个现象。为此，我们将使用国家抽样调查这两个组成部分的成员。这也将使我们能够系统地比较两个组织组成部分的社会人口和态度概况。我们的结果也将与党员调查的结果进行比较，特别是与最近的德国党员研究PAMIS进行比较。由于FREIE WÄHLER是地方选举名单的一个特例，这也提供了有趣的比较视角。

Using a postal survey this study will be the first to generate solid empirical evidence on the membership and the local organizational structure of the FREIE WÄHLER (Independent Electoral Lists). The study will cover the entire Germany and will focus solely on the membership of the FREIE WÄHLER. The survey will also generate results on candidates and incumbents of the FREIE WÄHLER. The central focus of the study will be on the identity of the FREIE WÄHLER. In a nutshell: What are the relevant factors explaining participation, which sociodemographic profile, which political orientations characterize the membership of the FREIE WÄHLER and how do these results compare to those from studies on political parties and the Kommunale Wählergemeinschaften (Local Electoral Lists)?The FREIE WÄHLER are an organizational hybrid consisting of a party-like organization (Bundesvereinigung) and an association of electoral lists (Landesverbände and Bundesverband). For the first time, this study will cover the entire phenomenon. In order to do so we will survey the members of both components using national samples. This will also allow us to systematically compare the sociodemographic and attitudinal profiles of both organizational components. Our results will also be compared to the results from party membership surveys, particularly to the most recent German party member study PAMIS. As the FREIE WÄHLER are a special case of Local Electoral Lists, this offers also interesting comparative perspectives.