Electoral rules play an important role in determining citizen-elite ideological congruence.
This is because they influence each stage of the representation process as one moves from …

Social scientists have long studied international differences in political culture and
communication. An influential strand of theory within political science argues that different …

Democratic politics suffers from numerous diseases such as lack of inclusiveness, time-
inconsistency, short-termism, negative campaigning, lack of trust in and between …

From a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms. In
this contribution we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the …

The government of the Netherlands evoNed a State Commission to write an advice on the
future viability of the Dutch democracy. In this contribution, we describe the issues and …

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with
preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal …

Die Schweiz gilt als wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftlich erfolgreich. Was steckt dahinter und
was können andere Länder davon lernen? Eine verbreitete und mit moderner Ökonomie gut …

Committee membership in mixed-member systems presents an informative setting for
studying legislators' behavior under majoritarian vs. proportional electoral incentives …

While most observers feel that interest groups influence parliamentary decisions, direct
evidence on this topic is scarce. Matching parliamentary votes with referendum results helps …

How do politicians with past military service decide on societal issues? We explore the
voting behavior of parliamentarians in the informative institutional setting of Switzerland with …