Der Beitrag beschreibt, wie Wahlrechtsnovellierungen als Teil einer gelebten Demokratie durch stets neu gewonnene Erfahrungswerte einem regelmäßigen Wandel unterliegen. Im Fokus stehen hierbei aus Erfahrungen der Bundestagswahl 2021 gewonnene Anpassungsvorschläge, die das aktuell geltende...

One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts. This is ensured by a set of rules slightly more premissive than those laid out in the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the...

Der Deutsche Bundestag umfasst gegenwärtig 709 Abgeordnete. In keiner Legislaturperiode zuvor waren es so viele. Schließlich liegt die Sollstärke bei 598 Abgeordneten – 299 direkt gewählte Abgeordnete aus den Wahl­kreisen und ebenso 299 Abgeordnete, die über die Liste ins Parlament...

Measuring the effect of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition is complicated because the stringency of ballot access regulations cannot be treated as being exogenous to candidates' entry decisions. This paper exploits the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Ohio's...

For our experiment on corruption, we designed a coordination game to model the influence of risk attitudes, beliefs, and information on behavioral choices and determined the equilibria. We observed that the participants' risk attitudes failed to explain their choices between corrupt and...

Basel II changes risk management in banks strongly. Internal rating procedures would lead one to expect that banks are changing over to active risk control. But, if risk management is no longer a simple "game against nature", if all agents involved are active players then a shift from a...

Helping somebody may undermine his incentives to work. What Buchanan identified more than 25 years ago as the Samaritan's dilemma is basically a time-inconsistency problem. The paper discusses possible solutions of the dilemma such as punishment within an iterated game, reshaping the game in the...

This paper derives a three stage Cournot?oligopoly game for product innovation, expenditure on introducing the product and competition on the product market. Product innovation is assumed to increase consumer utility but is effective only if the innovating firm invests in marketing, so that...