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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances
Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022
We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337980
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2013 election to German Bundestag from the viewpoint of direct democracy
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2013
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 and coalition indices of popularity (the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198683
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The third vote experiment : VAA-based election to enhance policy representation of the KIT student parliament
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2016
and bottlenecks of the method that should be taken into account when preparing elections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531378
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Representativeness of the parties and the Bundestag
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2022
This is the first out of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009 …, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy … representation ability of the 39 parties that participated in the 2021 elections and the Bundestag. For this purpose, the positions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800811
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2013 election to German Bundestag and direct democracy
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2013
The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) election 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 and coalition indices of popularity (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210625
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Combining the third vote with traditional elections
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019
economic implications of elections, or of single decisions like Bexit or involvement in a new war) is supposed to make vote … democracy. The Third Vote has been approbated and improved during the 2016, 2017 and 2018 elections to the Student Parliament … ballots have been taken from the StuPa-OMat - the KIT adaptation of the Wahl-O-Mat to the StuPa elections. However, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008114
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Tackling the Bundestag growth by introducing fraction-valued votes
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019
Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which continues to grow due to the increasing number of overhang mandates. In 2016, Norbert Lammert, then president of the Bundestag, proposed to restrict it to 630 members by allocating mandates according to quotas for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115375
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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 but are asked about their preferences on the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743096
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Policy representation by German parties at the 2017 federal election
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2017
The paper estimates the policy representation of 34 German parties that participate in the 2017 Bundestag (federal) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion polls. Then we construct the party indices of popularity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743109
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Policy representation by the 2017 Bundestag
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2017
The paper estimates the policy representation of 34 German parties that have participated in the 2017 Bundestag (federal) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion polls. Then we construct the party indices of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743111