"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 …

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 …

democracy. For this purpose, the party positions on 36 topical issues are compared with the results of public opinion polls, and … it is shown that representative democracy, as it is, guarantees no adequate representation of public opinion, even in …

democracy "more representative" and "more democratic". This method has been approbated during the 2016 and 2017 elections of the …