Der bundesdeutsche Parteienwettbewerb hat sich in den letzten Jahren und damit seit der
Veröffentlichung der ersten Auflage dieses Buches im Herbst 2011 stark verändert. So führte …

Recent scholarship in comparative political behavior has begun to address how voters in
coalitional systems manage the complexity of those environments. We contribute to this …

" Political equality is an essential political ideal and it is the cornerstone of moral
justifications of democracy. Most people would agree with the proposition that the interests …

Ideology is widely considered to be an important factor in sha** policy outcomes and in
influencing election outcomes. We propose a theory of the coalition-directed vote. The …

What are the incentives of opposition parties to coordinate their electoral strategies to
challenge authoritarian incumbents? Are these incentives the same in non-democracies as …

We argue that individuals use responsibility attribution heuristics that apply to collective
decisions made, for example, by families, teams within firms, boards in international …

Polls and coalition signals can help strategic voters in multiparty systems with proportional
representation and coalition governments to optimise their vote decision. Using a laboratory …

Coalition governments are the norm in parliamentary democracies. Yet, despite the
predominance of this type of government, political scientists have only recently started to …

Strategic coalition voting assumes that voters cast their vote in a way that maximizes the
probability that a preferred coalition will be formed after the election. We identify three …

National-level elections receive more attention from scholars and the media than elections
at other levels, even though in many European countries the importance of both regional …