democracy to mitigate their main inefficiencies. A randomly selected group of citizens receives voting rights on specific issues … model, we show that Co-Voting acts as an insurance device against both uninformed decisions in direct democracy and decision … biases in representative democracy. We further introduce Co-Del-Voting, which adds strategic delegation to parliament and …

usefulness in the German context. Building on and bridging existing strands of research (e.g. on support for democracy …, conceptualizations of democracy, evaluations of democracy), the framework distinguishes between citizens' personal definitions of … democracy and three analytically distinct but interconnected layers of democratic attachment: normative importance, evaluations …