exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … [Tangian 2016a, Tangian 2016b]. It is based on the approach implemented in internet voting advice applications, like the German …) and universality (frequency in representing a majority). This paper reports on an experimental application of this method …

This is the last of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 … and 2017 Bundestag elections. It is shown that the policy representation by the Bundestag could be improved using the … defense spending?'-Yes/No, etc.), and the parties answer to these questions before the elections - as required by the Wahl …

universality (frequency in representing a majority). We find that the currently governing conservative union CDU/CSU and the social …

behavior of legislators who change from a proportionally-elected chamber to a majority-elected chamber of parliament with their … selection. Chamber-changers become less loyal towards their party and adapt their lobby group affiliations towards more district …-oriented interests after having changed from a proportionally-elected chamber to a majority-elected chamber. …

This is the third of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 … and 2017 Bundestag elections. Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which still grows …

illustrated with examples from three Danish elections (1971, 1990, 2011), where a majority of the voters voted for one bloc of …-called election inversions may take place, where each group have different majority outcomes. We identify two versions of such … compound majority paradoxes specifically, but not exclusively, relevant for systems of proportional representation with …

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 …

their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in VAAs - voting advice applications, e … universality (the percentage of cases when a majority is represented), and the parliament seats are distributed among the parties … economic implications of elections, or of single decisions like Bexit or involvement in a new war) is supposed to make vote …