exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world …

that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …

How do flawed elections and post-election protest shape political attitudes? Taking advantage of the largely exogenous … variation in the timing of a survey conducted in Moscow, we examine the short-term impact of the parliamentary election of … election had little effect on attitudes toward government, perhaps because allegations of vote improprieties were not new …

rule of representative democracy yield more group trust than does the election rule of pure consensus and non … positive attributes like trust and legitimacy. Yet, we do not know to what extent different decision-making election rules … affect the deliberative process and its outcome. This article investigates to what extent different election rules in …