We study decision rules for committees that repeatedly take a binary decision. Committee members are privately informed about their payoffs and monetary transfers are not feasible. In static environments, the only strategy-proof mechanisms are voting rules which are criticized for being...

Empirical work on the causal effect of government fragmentation finds diversified results. This might be explained by the fact that studies typically are settled in different institutional environments. To assess in how far the political system might shape the effects of fragmentation, this...

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

Globalisierung, Digitalisierung, Individualisierung - die Megatrends des beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts prägen auch unsere Gesellschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund tief greifender wissenschaftlicher, technischer und soziologischer Umwälzungen drängen sich politisch brisante Fragen auf: Driftet unsere...