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Privileged precariat: White workers and South Africa’s long transition to majority rule
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Simon Bekker
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Majority rules are frequently used to decide whether or not a public good should be provided, but will typically fail to achieve an efficient provision.
Schmitz, Patrick W., Tröger, Thomas
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Western Liberalism At Twilight (?)
The chorus of doubts concerning the continued viability of the Western liberal tradition itself, in both ideational and institutional aspects, has grown much louder over the past several years.
William L. McBride
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Phase Transition in the Galam’s Majority-Rule Model with Information-Mediated Independence
We study the Galam’s majority-rule model in the presence of an independent behavior that can be driven intrinsically or can be mediated by information regarding the collective opinion of the whole population.
André L. Oestereich +3 more
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Violations of the voting majority required for decisions of the general meeting of shareholders are deemed to be substantial violations of procedure, due to which decisions may be declared invalid.
Virginijus Bitė
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Majority Rules and Coalitional Stability [PDF]
We consider a class of symmetric games with externalities across coalitions and show that, under certain regularity conditions, restricting the deviating power to majority guarantees the existence of core-stable allocations. We also show that if majorities can extract resources from minorities, stability requires a supermajority rule, whose threshold ...
Sergio Currarini, MARINI, MARCO
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Majority Does Not Rule: The Trouble with Majority‐Rule Consensus Trees [PDF]
The use of majority‐rule consensus trees as a means of resolving ambiguity in phylogenetic analyses is investigated. It is shown to be an inappropriate method for this purpose.
Michael J, Sharkey, Jason W, Leathers
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Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders: A shift in power relations
The stability of the apartheid system and the Afrikaners’ monopoly of power have been the subject of exhaustive scholarly analyses; by contrast, there have been few in-depth analyses of the unexpected transfer of power by the National Party government ...
Hermann Giliomee
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Commentary on "A note on the consensus time of mean-field majority-rule dynamics" [PDF]
A Commentary on the paper by D. H. Zanette [Pap. Phys. 1, 010002 (2009)]. The author of the paper offers a Reply.
Hugo Fort
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Testing the ability of the surprisingly popular method to predict NFL games
We consider the recently-developed “surprisingly popular” method for aggregating decisions across a group of people (Prelec, Seung and McCoy, 2017). The method has shown impressive performance in a range of decision-making situations, but typically for ...
Michael D. Lee +2 more
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