Thomas Bräuninger
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Bräuninger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Bräuninger |
| SIGNATURE | BRÄUNINGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2767-717X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 753 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Theorie und Empirie der Vergleichenden Koalitionsforschung: Stand und Ausblick
Das Regieren in Mehrparteienkabinetten hat sich zum Normalfall in modernen Demokratien entwickelt. Daher verwundert es nicht, dass die Analyse des Prozesses der Bildung, des Regierens in und der Beendigung von Koalitionsregierungen zu einem Schwerpunkt der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft geworden ist. Wir legen in diesem Literature Review den Stand der Forschung zu Koalitionsregierungen dar, indem wir die jüngere Entwicklung in der Koalitionst…
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR
Our knowledge about how voters decide which candidate(s) to vote for under preferential-list proportional representation (PLPR) systems remains limited. In particular, it is debated whether incumbent MPs enjoy an electoral advantage over outsiders also under PLPR. We argue that such an incumbency advantage critically depends on candidate visibility (in the media) and differs across voters with varying levels of political knowledge. Our empirical …
How Open Lists Undermine the Electoral Support of Cohesive Parties
How does ballot structure affect party choice? We argue that open lists undermine the electoral support of cohesive parties, to the benefit of internally divided parties. We conduct a survey-embedded experiment in the aftermath of the European migrant crisis, presenting German voters with real parties but fictitious politicians. A crossover design varies ballot type and exposure to candidate positions on immigration. We find that the internally d…
Parteienwettbewerb in den deutschen Bundesländern
American Political Science Review: Editors’ Report July 1, 2018–February 29, 2020
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American Political Science Review Editors’ Report 2017–18
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Party Competition and Government Formation in Germany: Business as Usual or New Patterns
The process of coalition formation following the 2017 Bundestag election was the most difficult in German post-war history. For the first time Germany saw negotiations fail, a minority government being discussed as a real possibility, and the federal president involved as formateur in coalition politics. The aim of this contribution is to explain why government formation was so intricate after the 2017 election. To this end, we trace patterns of …
American Political Science Review Editors’ Report 2016–17
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Strategic Ambiguity of Party Positions in Multi-Party Competition
Party competition is largely about making policy promises to voters. We argue that the clarity of the expressed policy position may be equally important. If blurred messages toward different audiences and therefore ambiguous positions can attract votes from different groups, parties have incentives to present ambiguous rather than clear-cut policy platforms. We present a formal model of multi-party competition with stochastic voting where party l…
Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems
How does competition for first (candidate) and second ballot (party-list) votes affect the strategic positioning of parties in mixed-member proportional systems? We study this question in a simulation study of multiparty competition in the two tiers. In the first step, we use data from elections for the German Bundestag to estimate individual vote function for each tier based on ideology, policy, and valence incentives. We then use these paramete…
Erststimmen generierende Merkmale der Direktkandidaten bei Bundestagswahlen
Governments, Parliaments and Legislative Activity
Various strands of literature in comparative politics suggest that there is a differential impact of the type of government and their supporting legislative coalitions in parliamentary democracies, for example, in terms of their size and ideological heterogeneity, and on their potential to induce policy change. Most studies in this area focus on governments as agenda-setters, possibly neglecting the role of parliaments as a further key actor in p…
Let’s Just Agree to Disagree: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Coalition Agreements
Scholars of coalition politics have increasingly begun to focus on conflict within coalitions. Here we examine the role of coalition agreements in managing intracoalitional conflict. We argue that there is a trade-off between making policy agreements at the coalition’s formation (e.g., by making very detailed policy platforms) and postponing the issue’s resolution by creating procedures for settling policy disputes. We argue that the trade-off is…
Modeling Preferences Using Roll Call Votes in Parliamentary Systems
Models of ideal point estimation usually build on the assumption of spatial preferences. This ignores legislators' non-policy incentives and is thus likely to produce implausible results for many legislatures. We study this problem in parliamentary systems and develop a model of roll call voting that considers both thepolicyand the non-policy,tacticalincentives of legislators. We go on to show how the relative weight of these policy and tactical …
Is Personal Vote‐Seeking Behavior Effective
Does representatives' legislative activity have any effect on their electoral performance? A broad theoretical literature suggests so, but real‐world evidence is scarce as empirically, personal and party votes are hard to separate. In this article, we examine whether bill initiation actually helps MPs to attract preference votes under flexible list electoral systems. In these systems, voters can accept the party‐provided rank order or vote for sp…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 7: Experiment und Simulation
Experiment und Simulation gehören mittlerweile fest zum Kanon der etablierten Forschungsmethoden in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. In der Grundlagenforschung dienen Laborexperimente dazu, Erklärungen des sozialen Verhaltens und Handelns modellgetreu zu überprüfen, während in Feld- und natürlichen Experimenten reale Handlungsbedingungen abgebildet werden sollen. Mit agentenbasierten Simulationen wiederum lassen sich komplexe und wieder…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 7
Jahrbuch Für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 7
Personal vote‐seeking in flexible list systems: How electoral incentives shape Belgian MPs' bill initiation behaviour
It is well known that different types of electoral systems create different incentives to cultivate a personal vote and that there may be variation in intra‐party competition within an electoral system. This article demonstrates that flexible list systems – where voters can choose to cast a vote for the list as ordered by the party or express preference votes for candidates – create another type of variation in personal vote‐seeking incentives wi…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie
The 2009 Elections in Schleswig-Holstein: Polarised Electoral Campaign, Exceptional Election Results, and an Unspectacular Process of Government Formation
The elections for the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag were held on 27 September 2009. After conflicts between the governing parties the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), Prime Minister Carstensen had ended the ‘grand coalition’ and called for early elections, one year earlier than scheduled. The electoral campaign centred on the divide between the Christian Democrats who favoured a coalition with the Liberals, and the Social De…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie
Der vorliegende Band des Jahrbuchs für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie widmet sich schwerpunktmäßig dem Thema der Verfassungsreform. Vier Beiträge beschäftigen sich aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln mit der Frage, welche allgemeinen Erklärungsansätze den graduellen Wandel und die explizie Änderung konstitutionell verankerter Institutionen beleuchten können. Dabei werden neben der vergleichenden Analyse von Verfassungsänderungen in der Welt e…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Theorien der Verfassungsreform
Intra-Party Preference Heterogeneity and Faction Membership in the 15th German Bundestag: A Computational Text Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
In a broad range of research in comparative politics, political parties are conceptualised as unitary actors with consistent preferences. We depart from this sometimes accurate, at other times overly strong assumption by studying patterns of intra-party heterogeneity of preferences within parliamentary parties in the German Bundestag from 2002–05. For this purpose, we use the Wordscores method, a form of computational text analysis, to estimate p…
Challenges for Estimating Policy Preferences: Announcing an Open Access Archive of Political Documents
We provide a comparative perspective on the contributions of the special issue with regard to their applied methods and findings. In addition, we discuss problems that arise when using 'wrong' or at least 'incorrect' versions of election manifestos by presenting replications of estimated policy positions of German parties. We show that the latter can result in biased estimates that may affect the outcome of theoretical models. On the basis of tho…
Personal vote‐seeking in flexible list systems: How electoral incentives shape Belgian MPs' bill initiation behaviour
It is well known that different types of electoral systems create different incentives to cultivate a personal vote and that there may be variation in intra‐party competition within an electoral system. This article demonstrates that flexible list systems – where voters can choose to cast a vote for the list as ordered by the party or express preference votes for candidates – create another type of variation in personal vote‐seeking incentives wi…
Legislative agenda‐setting in parliamentary democracies
Various strands of literature in comparative politics regard governments as the only noteworthy initiators and mainsprings of legislative policy making in parliamentary democracies. Opposition activity in policy making is more often associated with the intention to prevent, rather than to shape, policy. Does this perception reflect real‐life politics? To answer this question, this article discusses different arguments that link institutional and …
Strategic Ambiguity of Party Positions in Multi-Party Competition
Party competition is largely about making policy promises to voters. We argue that the clarity of the expressed policy position may be equally important. If blurred messages toward different audiences and therefore ambiguous positions can attract votes from different groups, parties have incentives to present ambiguous rather than clear-cut policy platforms. We present a formal model of multi-party competition with stochastic voting where party l…
Government Status and Legislative Behaviour: Partisan Veto Players in Australia, Denmark, Finland and Germany
In parliamentary systems, parties compete for votes and offices in the electoral arena, but in many systems they also cooperate in the legislative arena. This article examines the question of how the government status of parties affects their legislative behaviour. We develop a simple spatial model that includes parties' positional goals (vote, office, etc.) to formalize the notion of accommodating legislative behaviour. The model implies that go…
Is Personal Vote‐Seeking Behavior Effective
Does representatives' legislative activity have any effect on their electoral performance? A broad theoretical literature suggests so, but real‐world evidence is scarce as empirically, personal and party votes are hard to separate. In this article, we examine whether bill initiation actually helps MPs to attract preference votes under flexible list electoral systems. In these systems, voters can accept the party‐provided rank order or vote for sp…
Structural Power and Public Policy: A Signaling Model of Business Lobbying in Democratic Capitalism
This paper develops a signaling model of corporate lobbying in democratic capitalist societies to analyze the conditions that lead to a powerful political position of business. Proceeding from the traditional dichotomy of structural economic determinants versus business' political action, our model predicts the conditions under which elected political decisionmakers modify their policy pledges to accommodate business' political preferences, or ov…
A partisan model of government expenditure
Intra-Party Preference Heterogeneity and Faction Membership in the 15th German Bundestag: A Computational Text Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
In a broad range of research in comparative politics, political parties are conceptualised as unitary actors with consistent preferences. We depart from this sometimes accurate, at other times overly strong assumption by studying patterns of intra-party heterogeneity of preferences within parliamentary parties in the German Bundestag from 2002–05. For this purpose, we use the Wordscores method, a form of computational text analysis, to estimate p…
Accession and Reform of the European Union: A Game-Theoretical Analysis of Eastern Enlargement and the Constitutional Reform
This study examines how the institutional provisions of the Nice Treaty and the constitutional reform of the European Union (EU) will affect agricultural decision-making in the enlarged EU. Although the agricultural sector is a core EU policy domain, we have little knowledge about the effects of institutional reform following the accession of 10 relatively small and poor countries, each having a large primary sector. Based on an input–output taxa…
American Political Science Review: Editors’ Report July 1, 2018–February 29, 2020
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Let’s Just Agree to Disagree: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Coalition Agreements
Scholars of coalition politics have increasingly begun to focus on conflict within coalitions. Here we examine the role of coalition agreements in managing intracoalitional conflict. We argue that there is a trade-off between making policy agreements at the coalition’s formation (e.g., by making very detailed policy platforms) and postponing the issue’s resolution by creating procedures for settling policy disputes. We argue that the trade-off is…
Challenges for Estimating Policy Preferences: Announcing an Open Access Archive of Political Documents
We provide a comparative perspective on the contributions of the special issue with regard to their applied methods and findings. In addition, we discuss problems that arise when using 'wrong' or at least 'incorrect' versions of election manifestos by presenting replications of estimated policy positions of German parties. We show that the latter can result in biased estimates that may affect the outcome of theoretical models. On the basis of tho…
The checks and balances of party federalism: German federal government in a divided legislature
In this study, we assess the potential for policy change of the German government of Helmut Kohl after unification combining party positions with formal bicameral settings in a spatial model of legislative action. We distinguish between two policy areas and two types of legislation, mandatory and non–mandatory legislation imposing either a symmetric or asymmetric power distribution between both German chambers. In order to identify German legisla…
Party Competition and Government Formation in Germany: Business as Usual or New Patterns
The process of coalition formation following the 2017 Bundestag election was the most difficult in German post-war history. For the first time Germany saw negotiations fail, a minority government being discussed as a real possibility, and the federal president involved as formateur in coalition politics. The aim of this contribution is to explain why government formation was so intricate after the 2017 election. To this end, we trace patterns of …
The Formation of Policy Networks: Preferences, Institutions and Actors' Choice of Information and Exchange Relations
This article attempts to explain why actors form policy networks of information and exchange contacts, and how the institutional settings of public decision-making affect policy network formation. In their empirical analysis of the formation of four different policy networks in the German labour-policy domain, the authors examine actors' choice of mutual contacts resting on similarity of preferences on political events and test the importance of …
Modeling Preferences Using Roll Call Votes in Parliamentary Systems
Models of ideal point estimation usually build on the assumption of spatial preferences. This ignores legislators' non-policy incentives and is thus likely to produce implausible results for many legislatures. We study this problem in parliamentary systems and develop a model of roll call voting that considers both thepolicyand the non-policy,tacticalincentives of legislators. We go on to show how the relative weight of these policy and tactical …
Governments, Parliaments and Legislative Activity
Various strands of literature in comparative politics suggest that there is a differential impact of the type of government and their supporting legislative coalitions in parliamentary democracies, for example, in terms of their size and ideological heterogeneity, and on their potential to induce policy change. Most studies in this area focus on governments as agenda-setters, possibly neglecting the role of parliaments as a further key actor in p…
The Inclusiveness of European Decision Rules
European Union Member States increasingly draw attention to the choice between and within various decision rules. Two prominent approaches, relative voting power studies and spatial models, assess the choice within the standard, cooperation, and co-decision procedures. However, they cannot sufficiently explain the Member States' choice of these rules. In this article, we present our model on absolute inclusiveness and relative decisiveness referr…
Stability in Spatial Voting Games with Restricted Preference Maximizing
Spatial models of simple majority rule voting suggest that stable decisions are not likely to exist under normal circumstances. Yet this instability result stands in contrast to the stability observed in experiments. This article examines the effect of relaxing the assumption that voting is costless by requiring a proposal to be a finite distance closer to a member’s ideal point than the pending proposal before it is regarded as attractive. Using…
How Open Lists Undermine the Electoral Support of Cohesive Parties
How does ballot structure affect party choice? We argue that open lists undermine the electoral support of cohesive parties, to the benefit of internally divided parties. We conduct a survey-embedded experiment in the aftermath of the European migrant crisis, presenting German voters with real parties but fictitious politicians. A crossover design varies ballot type and exposure to candidate positions on immigration. We find that the internally d…
Making Rules for Governing Global Commons: The Case of Deep-Sea Mining
A central goal of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea 1973-1982 was to establish an international order for the use of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction. An overwhelming majority of countries signed the comprehensive convention, but several countries—including the industrialized G7 members Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the former West Germany—rejected the new ocean regime in 1982. This article …
When Simple Voting Doesn’t Work: Multicameral Systems for the Representation and Aggregation of Interests in International Organizations
This article analyses the origins and consequences of multicameral representation and voting in international organizations. It is argued that the existence of visible and durable conflicts in an issue area can make standard procedures such as unicameral majority voting ineffective with respect to the functioning of the regime. Applying spatial models of strategic decision making, it is asserted that multicameralism is more likely to be effective…
Power and Political Coordination in American and German Multi-Chamber Legislation
Power in American and German multi-chamber legislation is determined either by an inter-institutional or an internal coalition problem of all inter-linked chambers. Hence, the complexity of multi-chamber systems relies on different subgames, different types of decision rules and different types of actors. Since collective actors such as parliaments or parliamentary chambers may not act as unitary actors, we examine the power distribution in both …
Theorie und Empirie der Vergleichenden Koalitionsforschung: Stand und Ausblick
Das Regieren in Mehrparteienkabinetten hat sich zum Normalfall in modernen Demokratien entwickelt. Daher verwundert es nicht, dass die Analyse des Prozesses der Bildung, des Regierens in und der Beendigung von Koalitionsregierungen zu einem Schwerpunkt der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft geworden ist. Wir legen in diesem Literature Review den Stand der Forschung zu Koalitionsregierungen dar, indem wir die jüngere Entwicklung in der Koalitionst…
Candidate visibility, voter knowledge, and the incumbency advantage in preferential-list PR
Our knowledge about how voters decide which candidate(s) to vote for under preferential-list proportional representation (PLPR) systems remains limited. In particular, it is debated whether incumbent MPs enjoy an electoral advantage over outsiders also under PLPR. We argue that such an incumbency advantage critically depends on candidate visibility (in the media) and differs across voters with varying levels of political knowledge. Our empirical …
Power and Political Coordination in American and German Multi-Chamber Legislation
Power in American and German multi-chamber legislation is determined either by an inter-institutional or an internal coalition problem of all inter-linked chambers. Hence, the complexity of multi-chamber systems relies on different subgames, different types of decision rules and different types of actors. Since collective actors such as parliaments or parliamentary chambers may not act as unitary actors, we examine the power distribution in both …
The Inclusiveness of European Decision Rules
European Union Member States increasingly draw attention to the choice between and within various decision rules. Two prominent approaches, relative voting power studies and spatial models, assess the choice within the standard, cooperation, and co-decision procedures. However, they cannot sufficiently explain the Member States' choice of these rules. In this article, we present our model on absolute inclusiveness and relative decisiveness referr…
The Formation of Policy Networks: Preferences, Institutions and Actors' Choice of Information and Exchange Relations
This article attempts to explain why actors form policy networks of information and exchange contacts, and how the institutional settings of public decision-making affect policy network formation. In their empirical analysis of the formation of four different policy networks in the German labour-policy domain, the authors examine actors' choice of mutual contacts resting on similarity of preferences on political events and test the importance of …
The checks and balances of party federalism: German federal government in a divided legislature
In this study, we assess the potential for policy change of the German government of Helmut Kohl after unification combining party positions with formal bicameral settings in a spatial model of legislative action. We distinguish between two policy areas and two types of legislation, mandatory and non–mandatory legislation imposing either a symmetric or asymmetric power distribution between both German chambers. In order to identify German legisla…
Making Rules for Governing Global Commons: The Case of Deep-Sea Mining
A central goal of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea 1973-1982 was to establish an international order for the use of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction. An overwhelming majority of countries signed the comprehensive convention, but several countries—including the industrialized G7 members Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the former West Germany—rejected the new ocean regime in 1982. This article …
Legitimacy Without Legality? War-Making With and Without The UN
Government officials and legal scholars broadly agree that the US-led war in Iraq had the blemish of being neither backed by a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) mandate nor by a broad multilateral coalition. As regards the offender, even legal scholars disagree, arguing either that a deadlocked UNSC failed and the US 'did indeed have all authority it needed' (Glennon, 2003), or that, in the absence of UNSC approval, US use of force amounted …
When Simple Voting Doesn’t Work: Multicameral Systems for the Representation and Aggregation of Interests in International Organizations
This article analyses the origins and consequences of multicameral representation and voting in international organizations. It is argued that the existence of visible and durable conflicts in an issue area can make standard procedures such as unicameral majority voting ineffective with respect to the functioning of the regime. Applying spatial models of strategic decision making, it is asserted that multicameralism is more likely to be effective…
Accession and Reform of the European Union: A Game-Theoretical Analysis of Eastern Enlargement and the Constitutional Reform
This study examines how the institutional provisions of the Nice Treaty and the constitutional reform of the European Union (EU) will affect agricultural decision-making in the enlarged EU. Although the agricultural sector is a core EU policy domain, we have little knowledge about the effects of institutional reform following the accession of 10 relatively small and poor countries, each having a large primary sector. Based on an input–output taxa…
A partisan model of government expenditure
Structural Power and Public Policy: A Signaling Model of Business Lobbying in Democratic Capitalism
This paper develops a signaling model of corporate lobbying in democratic capitalist societies to analyze the conditions that lead to a powerful political position of business. Proceeding from the traditional dichotomy of structural economic determinants versus business' political action, our model predicts the conditions under which elected political decisionmakers modify their policy pledges to accommodate business' political preferences, or ov…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie
Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorien stellen das weltweit gesehen derzeit wichtigste sozialwissenschaftliche Erklärungsprogramm dar. Das Jahrbuch zeigt an ausgewählten Themenfeldern, wie individualistische Handlungstheorien fruchtbar zur Erklärung sozialer Phänomene eingesetzt werden können. Der Schwerpunkt des vierten Bandes liegt bei Fragen des Wählerverhaltens, des Parteienwettbewerbs und insbesondere der Wechselwirkungen zwischen beiden Berei…
Government Status and Legislative Behaviour: Partisan Veto Players in Australia, Denmark, Finland and Germany
In parliamentary systems, parties compete for votes and offices in the electoral arena, but in many systems they also cooperate in the legislative arena. This article examines the question of how the government status of parties affects their legislative behaviour. We develop a simple spatial model that includes parties' positional goals (vote, office, etc.) to formalize the notion of accommodating legislative behaviour. The model implies that go…
Jahrbuch Für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 4
Stability in Spatial Voting Games with Restricted Preference Maximizing
Spatial models of simple majority rule voting suggest that stable decisions are not likely to exist under normal circumstances. Yet this instability result stands in contrast to the stability observed in experiments. This article examines the effect of relaxing the assumption that voting is costless by requiring a proposal to be a finite distance closer to a member’s ideal point than the pending proposal before it is regarded as attractive. Using…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie
Der vorliegende Band des Jahrbuchs für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie widmet sich schwerpunktmäßig dem Thema der Verfassungsreform. Vier Beiträge beschäftigen sich aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln mit der Frage, welche allgemeinen Erklärungsansätze den graduellen Wandel und die explizie Änderung konstitutionell verankerter Institutionen beleuchten können. Dabei werden neben der vergleichenden Analyse von Verfassungsänderungen in der Welt e…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Theorien der Verfassungsreform
Intra-Party Preference Heterogeneity and Faction Membership in the 15th German Bundestag: A Computational Text Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches
In a broad range of research in comparative politics, political parties are conceptualised as unitary actors with consistent preferences. We depart from this sometimes accurate, at other times overly strong assumption by studying patterns of intra-party heterogeneity of preferences within parliamentary parties in the German Bundestag from 2002–05. For this purpose, we use the Wordscores method, a form of computational text analysis, to estimate p…
Challenges for Estimating Policy Preferences: Announcing an Open Access Archive of Political Documents
We provide a comparative perspective on the contributions of the special issue with regard to their applied methods and findings. In addition, we discuss problems that arise when using 'wrong' or at least 'incorrect' versions of election manifestos by presenting replications of estimated policy positions of German parties. We show that the latter can result in biased estimates that may affect the outcome of theoretical models. On the basis of tho…
Legislative agenda‐setting in parliamentary democracies
Various strands of literature in comparative politics regard governments as the only noteworthy initiators and mainsprings of legislative policy making in parliamentary democracies. Opposition activity in policy making is more often associated with the intention to prevent, rather than to shape, policy. Does this perception reflect real‐life politics? To answer this question, this article discusses different arguments that link institutional and …
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie
The 2009 Elections in Schleswig-Holstein: Polarised Electoral Campaign, Exceptional Election Results, and an Unspectacular Process of Government Formation
The elections for the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag were held on 27 September 2009. After conflicts between the governing parties the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), Prime Minister Carstensen had ended the ‘grand coalition’ and called for early elections, one year earlier than scheduled. The electoral campaign centred on the divide between the Christian Democrats who favoured a coalition with the Liberals, and the Social De…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 7: Experiment und Simulation
Experiment und Simulation gehören mittlerweile fest zum Kanon der etablierten Forschungsmethoden in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. In der Grundlagenforschung dienen Laborexperimente dazu, Erklärungen des sozialen Verhaltens und Handelns modellgetreu zu überprüfen, während in Feld- und natürlichen Experimenten reale Handlungsbedingungen abgebildet werden sollen. Mit agentenbasierten Simulationen wiederum lassen sich komplexe und wieder…
Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 7
Jahrbuch Für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 7
Personal vote‐seeking in flexible list systems: How electoral incentives shape Belgian MPs' bill initiation behaviour
It is well known that different types of electoral systems create different incentives to cultivate a personal vote and that there may be variation in intra‐party competition within an electoral system. This article demonstrates that flexible list systems – where voters can choose to cast a vote for the list as ordered by the party or express preference votes for candidates – create another type of variation in personal vote‐seeking incentives wi…
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