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 …

This paper provides a game-theoretic model of representative democracy with endogenous party formation. Coalition … formation may occur before and after elections, and the expected payoffs from the after-election majority game affect incentives …

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

the Bundestag parties and the Bundestag (before coalition-formation) has significantly increased since 2017. In particular …, the election winner, the SPD, is now ranked 4 instead of 22 in 2017, having the mean index (popularity + universality) / 2 … 'Traffic light coalition', SPD+GRUNE+FDP, its compatibility is as low as 45% and the representativeness is not the best either. …

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 …

candidates' form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge as functions … be minimal winning, minority or surplus. Moreover, coalitions may be 'disconnected.' We then look at how the coalition …

motivated citizen groups form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge … coalition formation game affects the incentives for party formation. In particular, we show that when the rents from office are …

universal German party. A comparison of the election results with the position of German Trade Union Federation (DGB) reveals … its high representativeness as well. Finally, all coalitions with two and three parties are also evaluated. The coalition … CDU/SPD (which is currently in power) is the most popular, and the coalition SPD/Green/Left-Party (which failed due to …