The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For … that representative democracy, as it is, guarantees no adequate representation of public opinion even in Germany with its … multiparty system and strong socialdemocratic traditions. To bridge approaches of representative and direct democracy, an …

and bottlenecks of the method that should be taken into account when preparing elections. …

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from … elections on local economic growth in Indonesia by using a quasi-experimental research method. The first direct elections of …. Thus, growth in districts that have had their first elections of district heads can be compared with growth in districts …

We consider a canonical two-period model of elections with adverse selection (hidden preferences) and moral hazard …

, 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 …