excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy …, nor the responsibility of voting on the implied costs of these initiatives. By exploiting a novel dataset containing … 2009, I show that in this sample and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence direct democracy causes an expansion of local …

"Mathematical Theory of Democracy" by the author at the Faculty of Economics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. One new … democracy ; statistical test ; parties ; coalitions ; representativeness ; Bernoulli matrices ; sums of random vectors … gut gelingt. Solche Versuche sind Gegenstand einer Vorlesungsreihe "Mathematische Theorie der Demokratie" des Autors an …

" voting rights and partisan representation in the parliaments of nation states. The first two sections point to failed …

of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems. Fewer efforts have been devoted to …

In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these … consequences on policy choices and for democratic legitimacy. Building on a simple cost-benefit model of voting, we then review … (quasi)-experimental work studying the effects of voting procedures and of other election rules. Voting procedures (which …

Although many political authorities endorse the basic goal of parity between men and women across the board, reality … women. Divided among the six parties with the greatest likelihood of being elected to the Bundestag, a total of 1,979 people … are running for office in the upcoming election. Of these, 35.7 percent are women. An analysis of the lists of candidates …

gaps in health care and retirement reappear. This may reflect an insurance motive of women who fear to lose the benefits …

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 …

democracy. For this purpose, the party positions on 36 topical issues are compared with the results of public opinion polls, and … it is shown that representative democracy, as it is, guarantees no adequate representation of public opinion, even in …