Do changes in public infrastructure impact voter turnout? After reunification numerous high schools have been closed in … East Germany. Difference-in-differences estimations show that high school closures between 1992 and 2010 triggered a … decline in voter turnout in the following state election, suggesting a sense of resignation among voters. However, this effect …

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

governing parties in the next elections. We conclude that public infrastructure can mitigate large external shocks, especially …Can public infrastructure help regions to mitigate large shocks? We examine how hospital infrastructure contributes to … hospital infrastructure. In contrast, rural areas without adequate infrastructure absorb shocks poorly, and voters punish the …

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. …

, 2013 and 2017 Bundestag elections by the methods of the mathematical theory of democracy. This one estimates the policy …This is the first out of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009 … representation ability of the 39 parties that participated in the 2021 elections and the Bundestag. For this purpose, the positions …