. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … investment ratio in years with no state election. Firms however seem to anticipate electoral uncertainty already when making … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how …

Studies of voting behavior in advanced industrial societies have demonstrated that voters rely on a plethora of … complex voting decisions. However, there is less understanding of how voters make these types of decisions in the absence of … democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …

and coalition indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population represented) and universality (frequency in … representing a majority) are constructed. It is shown that the 2013 election winner, the union of two conservative parties CDU … alternative election procedure is proposed. For illustration, it is hypothetically applied to redistribute the Bundestag seats …