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Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022

, the election winner, the SPD, is now ranked 4 instead of 22 in 2017, having the mean index (popularity + universality) / 2 …

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Bicameralism and Election Timing : A Comparison of the United Kingdom to Australia

Sanborn, Howard B - 2010

In the United Kingdom, Smith (2003;2004) has illustrated that prime ministers make their decision to call an election … to maximize the chance for re-election. This argument should be applicable to other majoritarian systems, yet various …

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Strategic Voting Decisions in the Absence of Democratic Experience and Strong Party Ties : A Natural Experiment in the 1990 German Unification Elections

Leiter, Debra Lynn - 2010

democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …

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Elections and Happiness : The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Life Satisfaction

Adams, Alex - 2010

Early democratic theorists argued that one purpose of a democratic government is to increase the happiness of its citizens. However, all democracies are not equal. Some democracies through their institutional arrangements create broader representation to their citizens, while others reduce...

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Design and results of the third vote experiment during the 2017 election of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology student parliament

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2017

The voting method described in [Tangian 2017b] has been experimentally approbated during the 2016 election to the … Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Student Parliament [Tangian 2017c]. Under this election method, the voters cast no votes … method’s malfunction). In the given paper, we describe a similar experiment during the election to the KIT Student Parliament …

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Policy representation by German parties at the 2017 federal election

Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2017

) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion …

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