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 …

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 … Germany with its multiparty system and strong socialdemocratic traditions. To bridge the gap between representative and direct …

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 …

Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of … the 2005 parliamentary elections. For this purpose, the party manifestos are converted into Yes/No answers to 95 topical … its high representativeness as well. Finally, all coalitions with two and three parties are also evaluated. The coalition …

Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of … the 2005 parliamentary elections. For this purpose, the party manifestos are converted into Yes/No answers to 95 topical … its high representativeness as well. Finally, all coalitions with two and three parties are also evaluated. The coalition …

published before the German parliamentary elections 2009 and on relevant polls of public opinion. … 'Mathematical Theory of Democracy' by the author at the Faculty of Economics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. One new … of public opinion polls on the same issues. The test is based on estimating the statistical significance of the …

Individuals in a committee or election can increase their voting power by forming coalitions. This behavior is shown … square root of the number of voters. When voters' preferences are allowed to differ, coalitions form only if voters are … approximately politically balanced. We propose a dynamic view of coalitions, in which groups of voters choose of their own free will …

seats elections that rely on a single vote such as common elections for Parliament or the U.S. Congress. The didactics … want more districts, the examples of the UK 2010 and Dutch 2006 general elections are developed in some detail. Subordinate … takes care of the latter). For a coalition formed after the elections there is the more complex threshold of a "coalition …

current practice of having direct popular elections using systems that have originated in history is inoptimal and actually … 2007 French presidential elections. Under the currently and historically grown system of run-off plurality Sarkozy got …