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Mizan Law Review, 2021 The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) had rejected the request to enable ethnic-Hararis who reside outside Harari Regional State to vote in the election of Harari National Council members.
Simeneh Kiros Assefa
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Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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The Influence of Region of Interest Heterogeneity on Classification Accuracy in Wetland Systems
Remote Sensing, 2019 Classifying and mapping natural systems such as wetlands using remote sensing frequently relies on data derived from regions of interest (ROIs), often acquired during field campaigns.
Tedros M. Berhane +5 more
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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, 2018 Chapter 5 analyzes the contentious issue of partisan gerrymandering—a process of designing the boundaries of electoral districts to favor either Republican or Democratic candidates. The chapter argues, and then shows, that coming to a standard of what constitutes a partisan gerrymander revolves around the concept of how, when, and where a districting ...
Daniel B. Magleby +4 more
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I argue that knowledge plays a distinctive role in psychological explanation that weaker epistemic states cannot because it is robust in the face of counterevidence in a way that they are not. Being robust in the face of counterevidence makes your belief robust in the face of counterargument.
Spencer Paulson
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The new media as monitors of democracy
Communicare, 2022 While Zimbabwe’s first two post-independence elections in 1980 and 1985 were generally considered to be a credible expression of the will of the people, subsequent elections in that country were largely contested, with allegations of rigging ...
Dumisani Moyo
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A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Causalists contend that you see a specific object (rather than a lookalike, or no object at all) because that object sits at the beginning of an appropriate causal chain that terminates in your visual experience. We argue that neither standard causalists nor their non‐causalist opponents can adequately accommodate a striking asymmetry between ...
Dominic Alford‐Duguid, Umrao Sethi
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