In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and … deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using election day rain as an instrumental variable. Our particular … contribution is the comparison of municipal and state elections. …

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 …

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting … the endogenous variables; the federal election trend is treated as predetermined. Our results suggest that shocks in …

German voters in the 2019 European election showed remarkable regional differences in their voting behavior. The Green …

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 … advice applications, e.g. German Wahl-O-Mat). Then the degree to which the parties match with the electorate’s policy profile …

) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion …

Elections constitute the essential element of democracy, yet surprisingly little is known about their immediate … to elections. While elections as a process allow citizens to contribute to democratic quality, they are also …-being along the entirety of the electoral process, I use survey data from before and after 148 national elections in 24 European …

decline in voter turnout in the following state election, suggesting a sense of resignation among voters. However, this effect … is not mirrored in national elections, indicating that voters do not extend their frustration to a higher level. The … decline in voter turnout in state elections is rather short-living. This suggests that while voters may initially react to …