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Five German leading parties and their coalitions are evaluated from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose … representative and direct democracy. -- Representative democracy ; direct democracy ; elections ; coalitions ; theory of voting … ; mathematical theory of democracy ; indices of popularity and universality …
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"Mathematical Theory of Democracy" by the author at the Faculty of Economics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. One new … democracy ; statistical test ; parties ; coalitions ; representativeness ; Bernoulli matrices ; sums of random vectors … gut gelingt. Solche Versuche sind Gegenstand einer Vorlesungsreihe "Mathematische Theorie der Demokratie" des Autors an …
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The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For … that representative democracy, as it is, guarantees no adequate representation of public opinion even in Germany with its … multiparty system and strong socialdemocratic traditions. To bridge approaches of representative and direct democracy, an …
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Since voters are often swayed more by the personal image of politicians than by party manifestos, they may cast votes that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting...
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, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy …
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This is the second out of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections. This paper arranges the contesting parties into a 'spectrum' that reflects the spatial proximity of their policy profiles. The latter are...
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