, the election winner, the SPD, is now ranked 4 instead of 22 in 2017, having the mean index (popularity + universality) / 2 …

The German two-vote election system implements two historical conceptions of political representation coined at the end … system and government represent policy preferences of the electorate, is supported by no election instrument, and the Third … Vote election method just aims at filling in this gap. Under the "Third Vote", the voters cast no votes but are asked about …

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 …

choices in US political history, such as the ratification of the Constitution in 1787 and the election of Lincoln in 1860 …-based models of election tend to conclude that candidates, or parties, converge to a vote-maximizing policy position at the …

varies over time. Changes in popularity are partly exogenous and partly driven by the parties' actions. There is an election … scheduled at a future date and the party with more popularity at the election date wins the vote. Electoral incentives can have … substantial effects on bargaining outcomes. Periods of gridlock may arise when the election is close and parties have similar …