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Gähn. Man würde sich wünschen, Philip & Co. würden mal so stringent & balanciert argumentieren, wie sie es einfordern. Das Narrativ des einseitigen Diskurses dient dazu, sich in der eigenen Einseitigkeit einen schlanken Fuß zu machen - und sich dafür auf die Schulter zu klopfen. shorturl.at/i8T4P
Eine strukturelle Lösung wäre eine Stich- oder Präferenzwahl (Alternative vote), mit der festgestellt würde, welche der beiden größten Partei insgesamt die größte Wählerunterstützung hat. Die mit der absoluten Mehrheit hat dann den Auftrag zur Regierungsbildung und den Zugriff auf das MP-Amt.
Thank you!
@ganghof.bsky.social Bangladesh recently voted in a general election and in a referendum to amend its constitution based on the July Charter. Of particular interest: a new 100-seat upper house elected by PR
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@kjephd.bsky.social @northeasternblot.bsky.social
My beef is with open lists, and more generally with how enamoured we are of "personalisation" of electoral rules, in view of limited evidence that it actually makes a difference, other than making the act of voting more cumbersome to voters (possibly compounding participation inequalities).
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Titelseite der APuZ 6-9/2026 - Konservatismus
Unsere neue Ausgabe zum Thema #Konservatismus ist online! Mit Texten von @mariamlau.bsky.social, M. Steber @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, @tbiebricher.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @ursulamuench.bsky.social, M. Bitschnau, @jschaeuble.bsky.social u. A. Meiritz. Morgen gedruckt im "Parlament".
Im feierlichen Rahmen ihres Neujahrsempfangs ist die Universität Potsdam mit dem Prädikat „Gleichstellungsstarke Hochschule“ ausgezeichnet worden: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachricht...
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The Australian or Japanese model is called semi-parliamentarism by @ganghof.bsky.social in a great book; there's an article version too: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Inference to the best explanation in style with Sherlock Holmes @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social & House MD @juliusk.bsky.social :)
1/Leaders are abducted/allies are threatened but pundits and governments are scratching their heads on what the US is doing. Danish PM on Greenland "It makes absolutely no sense". Why? Because actors using old IR models when we need a new lens. Enter neo-royalism.
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Gonzalez, not Machado
Die Regierung hat jedes Recht zu einem Wechsel in der Migrationspolitik. Aber das ist so unglaublich bürokratisch, unethisch und migrationspolitisch sinnlos. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
Sounds good to me. But that seems pretty much equivalent to ranked choice (alternative vote) without the need to rank all candidates. Ireland has used this for presidential elections since 1937.
Thank you. I wasn't aware of the book!
I agree about the tradeoffs. But the context always changes, while the rules should be somewhat stable. And the logical space of possibilities. Hard to think of something else. What do you find negative or ficticious about the runoff? That it doesn't necessarily reflect voters' first preference?
Which rules do you prefer, and why?
"But the SVP is different":
I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD.
But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close.
The real difference is govt participation, not ideology.
And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party
If it weren't so sad, presidentialism would be kind of funny.
New (sort of) paper on the "Democratic" Separation of Powers for the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook on the Separation of Powers
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Will this be recorded?
..sollte sich ernsthaft mit den Möglichkeiten flexibler Mehrheiten beschäftigen. Sie lindern das Demokratieproblem der Brandmauer und die Demokratiegefahr durch die AfD. Mehr dazu im Frühjahr 2026 in meinem Buch.
インタビューが毎日紙版にも掲載されました．昨日出たWeb版とたぶん同内容です．制度の力その他で政党数を抑制するにも限界がある(もうそれではおさえこめない時代に至っている)ので，政治運営の引き出しは多い方がいいよね，という話のつもりです．
mainichi.jp/articles/202...
I doubt that a few perc. points threshold matter for coordination. Parliamentary system is the problem bc it doesn't allow centrist voters to coordinate. Presidential elections with absolute majority rule show this nicely. (Parl. system plus disproportionality also killed Hungary's democracy.)
Important debate. Thanks! 2 points. 1) Low thresholds make it easier to split up parties. German democracy would probably benefit if a AfD breakaway party were successful. 2) Discussion is predicated on parl. system. Not including small parties in no-confidence procedure can mitigate tradeoffs.
Klar. Aber 1. hängt viel an d. Def. von "... Anliegen berücksichtigen". Deliberation = Verfahren, in deinem Thread klang es nach der Substanz der Kompromisse. 2. Von norm. Theorien zu emp. Hypothesen zu kommen ist tricky. 3. Etwas weniger Rawls & mehr Gaus würde d. Diskussion vllt. helfen :)