This is the third of four papers devoted to the 2021 German federal elections continuing our analysis of the 2009, 2013 … and 2017 Bundestag elections. Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which still grows …

change in the existing election system. But a mathematical solution to the problem does not require such changes and is much …

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 …

ballots have been taken from the StuPa-OMat - the KIT adaptation of the Wahl-O-Mat to the StuPa elections. However, the … questions proposed by the election committee can be favorable for one party and unfavorable for another, making elections …The German two-vote election system implements two historical conceptions of political representation coined at the end …

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 …

-called election inversions may take place, where each group have different majority outcomes. We identify two versions of such … illustrated with examples from three Danish elections (1971, 1990, 2011), where a majority of the voters voted for one bloc of …

We analyze voter preferences for eight General Elections for the Danish parliament by using survey data to investigate …

solution to the apportionment problem. All of these are illustrated using the example of the 2021 German Bundestag elections. …

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