Lukas Haffert, Pascal Langenbach and I present results from an online survey among 3250 German voters regarding their preferences for electoral reform proposals. We find that the majority of participants support a reform that reduces the size of the Bundestag, even if the trade-offs inherent in such a reform are made transparent to them. Among a set of three different reform proposals, reducing the number of electoral districts to 225 is most popular. Importantly, reducing the number of districts is more popular than the coalition parties’ proposal of not allocating surplus seats. Parallel voting, as proposed by the CDU/CSU, is the least popular reform proposal, even if it is still more popular than the status quo. Please find detailed results in our scientific report.
Author Archives: tobirommel
Misremembering Weimar – article published online
Lukas Haffert’s, Nils Redeker’s and my article “Misremembering Weimar: Hyperinflation, the Great Depression, and German Collective Economic Memory” is available online with Economics & Politics. Please find detailed information here.
Trade and Protest – article out in print
New Affiliation – research associate
In addition to my postdoctoral position at the Hochschule für Politik München, I will be a research associate affiliated with the TUM School of Management beginning from January 2020.