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Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation [PDF]
, 2023 In recent years, social media companies have grappled with defining and enforcing content moderation policies surrounding political content on their platforms, due in part to concerns about political bias, disinformation, and polarization. These policies have taken many forms, including disallowing political advertising, limiting the reach of political
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The Techno-politics of Crowdsourced Disaster Data in the Smart City [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, 695329 (2021), 2021 This article interrogates the techno-politics of crowdsourced data in the study of environmental hazards such as floods, storms, wildfires, and cyclones. We highlight some of the main debates around the use of citizen-generated data for assessing, monitoring, and responding to disasters. We then argue that, compared to the number of articles discussing
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The Political Economy of a Diverse Monetary Union [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 We analyze the political economy of monetary unification among countries with different quality of institutions. Countries with stronger institutions have lower public spending and better investment incentives, even under a stronger currency. Governments under weaker institutions spend more so must occasionally devalue.
Perotti, Enrico, Soons, Oscar
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Diversity in local political practice [PDF]
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020 This article frames and introduces the contributions to a special issue. Their focus is on France and Germany, not only two major immigration countries in Europe, but also countries where local aut...
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The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds [PDF]
Nature Human Behavior. 2019, 2017 As political polarization in the United States continues to rise, the question of whether polarized individuals can fruitfully cooperate becomes pressing. Although diversity of individual perspectives typically leads to superior team performance on complex tasks, strong political perspectives have been associated with conflict, misinformation and a ...
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Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 A lack of political diversity in psychology is said to lead to a number of pernicious outcomes, including biased research and active discrimination against conservatives. We surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts.
Yoel Inbar, Joris Lammers
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Whose Diversity Counts? The Politics and Paradoxes of Modern Diversity [PDF]
Sustainability, 2013 Is “diversity” a modern concept, like indigeneity or biodiversity, which is conceived precisely at the time that it seems to be threatened and on the verge of disappearing? In the face of perceived threats to diversity, projects and policies have been crafted to protect, promote, or conserve diversity, but in doing so they have often demonstrated a ...
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The Diversity of Political Regimes [PDF]
, 2013 The topic of this book is political cleavages in 19 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The theoretical link between political stability and political cleavages is simple – the emergence of a stable party system and distinguishable and consistent voter preferences are typically seen as indicators of democratic consolidation (cf.
Joakim Ekman, Sten Berglund
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Political Openness and Armed Conflict: Evidence from Local Councils in Colombia [PDF]
Eur. J. Polit. Econ. 67 (2021) 101984, 2019 In this paper, I empirically investigate how the openness of political institutions to diverse representation can impact conflict-related violence. By exploiting plausibly exogenous variations in the number of councillors in Colombian municipalities, I develop two sets of results.
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TyDiP: A Dataset for Politeness Classification in Nine Typologically Diverse Languages [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We study politeness phenomena in nine typologically diverse languages. Politeness is an important facet of communication and is sometimes argued to be cultural-specific, yet existing computational linguistic study is limited to English. We create TyDiP, a dataset containing three-way politeness annotations for 500 examples in each language, totaling 4 ...
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