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Clueless Politicians [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
We develop a model of policymaking in which a politician decides how much expertise to acquire or how informed to become about issues before interest groups engage in monetary lobbying. For a range of issues, the policymaker prefers to remain clueless about the merits of reform, even when acquiring expertise or better information is costless.
Christopher Cotton, Cheng Li
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The parody of politicians

2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2013
The paper presents a model of parody, seen as distorted imitation of some object or person aimed at eliciting laughter. A qualitative analysis is presented of the parody of a politician by a comedian. The analysis is carried out through an annotation scheme that describes each sentence, gesture, gaze, facial expression of the parody, and finds out the ...
Francesca D'Errico, Isabella Poggi
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