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Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 305-320, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT Within discussions of deliberative democracy, the role of facilitator is ever‐present: they gather participants, introduce expert information, correct for discursive prejudices, and more. Few recognize, however, that facilitators therefore exercise substantive, normative control over the process, thereby constituting a threat to the legitimacy
Emerson R. Bodde
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Candidate nomination for Condorcet-consistent voting rules
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Schlotter, Ildikó +1 more
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Analysing the Compensatory Properties of the Outranking Approach PROMETHEE
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Volume 32, Issue 2, August 2025.ABSTRACT The PROMETHEE methods are increasingly applied in environmental and public policy decision‐making due to their comprehensiveness and explainability. However, the literature contains differing statements regarding their compensatory properties. Compensation in multiple criteria decision aggregation procedures is commonly understood as allowing ...
Sebastian Schär +2 more
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Domestic Misfits, Social Physics and the Problem of International Statistical Standardization
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 111-122, June 2025.ABSTRACT During the 19th century, driven by the ideas of Adolphe Quetelet, population statistics were actively being developed and debated by many nascent nation‐states. The International Statistical Institute (ISI) was one of the premier statistical organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries that possessed a very international and prestigious ...
Kathryn Barber
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Binary Self‐Selective Voting Rules
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel binary stability property for voting rules—called binary self‐selectivity—by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself in pairwise elections will choose not to do so. In Theorem 1, we show that a neutral voting rule is binary self‐selective if and only if it is universally self ...
Héctor Hermida‐Rivera +1 more
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Voting on Vaccinations: The Political Legitimacy of Referendums on Science‐Related Questions
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, I ask whether a referendum is more legitimate than parliamentary voting as a procedure to reach a collective decision on the question of mandatory vaccinations. Since I define both procedures as applications of binary majority rule, I start by exploring the political legitimacy of such rule.
Malvina Ongaro
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A foundation for strategic agenda voting [PDF]
We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are widely used in the democratic world: the amendment, also known as the Anglo-American procedure, and the successive, or equivalently the ...
Jose Apesteguia +2 more
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Journal of Genetic Counseling, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract In pediatric oncology, genetic and genomic tests are proposed throughout the care pathway for many reasons (e.g., cancer characterization, identification of the most appropriate treatment, patient selection for clinical trials, identification of tissue/organ donors, or risk of relapse prediction). Despite the many different approaches (somatic
Marion Droin‐Mollard +3 more
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Generative artificial intelligence and evaluating strategic decisions
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 583-610, March 2025.Abstract Research Summary Strategic decisions are uncertain and often irreversible. Hence, predicting the value of alternatives is important for strategic decision making. We investigate the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in evaluating strategic alternatives using business models generated by AI (study 1) or submitted to a competition ...
Anil R. Doshi +3 more
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Testing Top Monotonicity [PDF]
, 2014 Top monotonicity is a relaxation of various well-known domain restrictions such as single-peaked and single-crossing for which negative impossibility results are circumvented and for which the median-voter theorem still holds.
Aziz, Haris
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