Five German leading parties and their coalitions are evaluated from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose …, the positions of the parties on over 30 topical issues are compared with the results of polls of public opinion. The …) for the last Bundestag (German parliamentary) elections 2009. It is shown that the Bundestag election winner 2009 - the …

? Yes/No, etc.), which reveals the balance of public opinion on each issue. These embedded referenda measure the degree to … and bottlenecks of the method that should be taken into account when preparing elections. …

democracy. The Third Vote has been approbated and improved during the 2016, 2017 and 2018 elections to the Student Parliament … balance of public opinion on every issue is determined. The degree to which the parties match with it is expressed by the … economic implications of elections, or of single decisions like Bexit or involvement in a new war) is supposed to make vote …

democracy "more representative" and "more democratic". This method has been approbated during the 2016 and 2017 elections of the … electorate with the balance of public opinion on every issue is determined. The degree to which the parties match with it is …

, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy …This is the first out of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009 … representation ability of the 39 parties that participated in the 2021 elections and the Bundestag. For this purpose, the positions …

) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion … coin, meaning that the 2013 Bundestag is practically unrelated to public opinion. …

opinion polls. Then we construct the party indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population represented) and …

representative and direct democracy. -- Representative democracy ; direct democracy ; elections ; coalitions ; theory of voting …Five German leading parties and their coalitions are evaluated from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose …, the positions of the parties on over 30 topical issues are compared with the results of polls of public opinion. The …

that representative democracy, as it is, guarantees no adequate representation of public opinion even in Germany with its …The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For … this purpose, the party positions on 36 topical issues are compared with the results of public opinion polls, and the party …