democracy and long term party attachments to guide their voting behavior. However, voters in new democracies do not have these … 1990 Cross-National Election Project German Unification election study, I examine the information sources West and East …

, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy …, the election winner, the SPD, is now ranked 4 instead of 22 in 2017, having the mean index (popularity + universality) / 2 …

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 …

candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …