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Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries
Journal of Politics, 2022 Knowledge of what voters prefer is central to several theories of democratic representation and accountability. Despite this, we know little in a comparative sense of how well politicians know citizens’ policy preferences. We present results from a study
S. Walgrave +13 more
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Complexity, 2021 Social media chat groups, such as WeChat and WhatsApp groups, are widely applied in online communication. This research has conducted two studies to examine the individual level and collective level’s opinion dynamics in those groups. The opinion dynamic
Siyuan Ma, Hongzhong Zhang
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E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Sentiment analysis is a modern task in natural language processing and linguistics. Also referred to as opinion mining, it deals with different kinds of affective states: opinion, emotions, stance and evaluations.
Maksimenko Olga +3 more
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Stabilizing Consensus with Many Opinions [PDF]
, 2015 We consider the following distributed consensus problem: Each node in a complete communication network of size $n$ initially holds an \emph{opinion}, which is chosen arbitrarily from a finite set $\Sigma$.
Becchetti, Luca +4 more
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Effect of Heterogeneity in Initial Geographic Distribution on Opinions’ Competitiveness
Entropy, 2015 Spin dynamics on networks allows us to understand how a global consensus emerges out of individual opinions. Here, we are interested in the effect of heterogeneity in the initial geographic distribution of a competing opinion on the competitiveness of ...
Alexander S. Balankin +5 more
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Chaotic, staggered and polarized dynamics in opinion forming: the contrarian effect [PDF]
, 2006 We revisit the no tie breaking 2-state Galam contrarian model of opinion dynamics for update groups of size 3. While the initial model assumes a constant density of contrarians a for both opinions, it now depends for each opinion on its global support ...
C. J. Tessone +8 more
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Security Studies, 2022 Recent scholarship has established that a majority of Americans will support the use of nuclear weapons and violate the principle of noncombatant immunity when American lives are on the line.
Janina Dill +2 more
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Same-Sex Marriage and Other Moral Taboos: Cultural Acceptances, Change in American Public Opinion and the Evidence from the Opinion Polls [PDF]
, 2017 This article analyzes the evolution of gay and lesbian rights and same-sex marriage in American public opinion. It describes how Obergefell v. Hodges, state-level decisions and the public opinion trends can be considered as the outcome of a grassroots ...
Morini, Marco
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Mirage of Democracy: The Town Meeting in America
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019 In American mythology, the town meetings of colonial New England are the storied source of the nation’s democracy. But early New Englanders allowed the great majority of their adult males to vote only because they had no other way to secure social order.
Michael Zuckerman
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Effect of criminal’s consent to pay difference of diyah (a critical review of Article 30 of Islamic Penal Code) [PDF]
مطالعات فقه و حقوق اسلامی, 2017 One of the important issues about collection of diayh from the criminal who have committed a crime involving difference of diyah is impact of his/her consent to pay difference of diyah and him/her release from qisas.
Hosein Ahmari, EBRAHIM KARIMI
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