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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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Asymmetries in Potential for Partisan Gerrymandering
Social Science Research NetworkThis article investigates the effectiveness of potential partisan gerrymandering of the US House of Representatives across a range of states. We use a heuristic algorithm to generate district maps that optimize for multiple objectives, including ...
Nicholas Goedert +3 more
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
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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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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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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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Milan Law Review, 2021 In 2019, the Supreme Courts of both the United States and the United Kingdom decided cases involving the political question doctrine. In Rucho v. Common Cause, the U.S.
Hayley N. Lawrence
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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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GEOGRAPHY OF THE NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND CHANGING VOTING PATTERNS IN HUNGARY [PDF]
Acta Geobalcanica, 2015 After nearly half a century of single-party communist dictatorship Hungary returned to a pluralist democratic system in 1989-1990. The electoral system that was designed hastily before the first post-communist elections held in March 1990 remained intact
Zoltán Kovács, György Vida
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using GIS methods, we identify territories in Africa affected by subnational border reforms between 1992 and 2013. Descriptive statistics reveal that these territories differed from other African regions across several key dimensions. For example, these territories were more populous and exhibited greater ethnic diversity.
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse
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