desirable policies and aim at manipulating information aggregation by misrepresenting their private information. We show that … benefits only if they aggregate their private information. Some members of the society, however, are harmed by socially … information can be aggregated and a socially desirable policy can be implemented under a new class of democratic mechanisms …

The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For … representing a majority) are constructed. It is shown that the 2013 election winner, the union of two conservative parties CDU … that representative democracy, as it is, guarantees no adequate representation of public opinion even in Germany with its …

The outcomes of the 2013 German Bundestag (federal parliament) election are analyzed from the viewpoint of direct … democracy. For this purpose, the party positions on 36 topical issues are compared with the results of public opinion polls, and … (frequency in representing a majority) are constructed. It is shown that the 2013 election winner, the union of two conservative …

democracy "more representative" and "more democratic". This method has been approbated during the 2016 and 2017 elections of the … declared in the party manifestos (like in voting advice applications, e.g. German Wahl-O-Mat). Then the policy profile of the … parliament's representativeness but also revealed that the critical point was the selection of questions by the election …

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 …

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