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Group Agency and Egalitarian Corporate Structure: The Epistemic, Incentive, and Control Dimensions
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 507-525, May 2026.ABSTRACT What constitutes a good corporate agent? The article answers this question by critically applying List and Pettit's theory of group agency, which emphasizes three crucial dimensions of organizational design: epistemic quality, incentive compatibility, and control.
Chi Kwok, Chris Man‐Kong Li
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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro +2 more
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money
History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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Combining Voting Rules Together [PDF]
, 2012 We propose a simple method for combining together voting rules that performs a run-off between the different winners of each voting rule. We prove that this combinator has several good properties.
Narodytska, Nina +2 more
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A partial taxonomy of judgment aggregation rules, and their properties [PDF]
, 2016 The literature on judgment aggregation is moving from studying impossibility results regarding aggregation rules towards studying specific judgment aggregation rules.
Lang, Jerôme +4 more
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Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France
History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 54-65, January 2026.Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
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Welfare Maximization Entices Participation [PDF]
, 2015 We consider randomized mechanisms with optional participation. Preferences over lotteries are modeled using skew-symmetric bilinear (SSB) utility functions, a generalization of classic von Neumann-Morgenstern utility functions. We show that every welfare-
Brandl, Florian +2 more
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Mixed‐Condorcet: An Advanced Method of Clustering for Mixed Data in Social Sciences
Computational and Mathematical Methods, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.This paper provides a new clustering method for mixed data based on α‐Condorcet, denoted mixed‐Condorcet, by introducing a new Condorcet criterion. This criterion combines α‐Condorcet and k‐prototype criteria. Next, we give the within‐cluster sum‐of‐squares expression for our new method.
Marcela Romero-Jeldres +4 more
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Knowledge Gradient Procedure to Select the Best System Under Pairwise Comparisons
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), Volume 72, Issue 8, Page 1078-1096, December 2025.ABSTRACT This article considers fixed‐budget ranking and selection (R&S) problems where the performance of alternative designs can only be assessed through pairwise comparisons, a setting encountered in many applications, including player ranking in games, sports tournaments, recommender systems, image‐based search, public choice models such as voting ...
Dongyang Li +4 more
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Sociologie Românească, 2011 In social life, people try to know, to build, to maintain, to change, to destroy and to avoid hierarchies. At the social level, the hierarchical systems are considered to be desirable for their capacity to increase efficiency, communication and control ...
Cătălin Mamali, Gheorghe Păun
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