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As a result of demographic change, young voters are increasingly losing influence in elections . Children and adolescents below voting age have no voting rights at all, yet are subject to policy and law . Previous proposals to combat these...

Roll-call votes play an important role in parliamentary research, but have so far focused almost exclusively on plenary votes due to a lack of data . In a transparency offensive, the European Parliament (EP) decided in 2014 to make roll-call votes...

In 2023, only 22 .4 percent of the members entitled to vote participated in the social insurance elections, i .e . the third biggest election in Germany . Against this backdrop, the paper describes the functions of the sectoral quasi-parliaments in...

This paper focuses on a subset of the interest group population in the German health policy sector . Analyzing the invitation lists to all public hearings the health committee of the German Bundestag carried out between the 15th and the 19th...

Since the European elections in 2014, the number of parties elected to the European Parliament (EP) in Germany has more than doubled . The removal of the 5-percent threshold in electoral law gave seven small(est) parties with an increasing number of...