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The Price of Poverty: Inequality and the Strategic Use of Clientelism in Divided Democracies
EconomiesThis article investigates the political cost of poverty in democracies marked by deep social divisions. We develop a probabilistic voting model that incorporates clientelism as a strategic tool employed by elite political parties to secure electoral ...
Andrés Cendales +2 more
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Power relations in the International Monetary Fund: a study of the political economy of a priori voting power using the Theory of Simple Games [PDF]
, 1998 In general in organisations whose system of governance involves weighted majority voting, power and voting weight differ. Power indices are a value concept for majority voting games which provide a means of analysing this difference.
Leech, Dennis
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Scientific ReportsOnline hate speech has become a major social problem owing to the rapid growth of Internet communities. Relying on anonymity, people use hateful or abusive language for groups who are different from them.
Seohyun Yoo +3 more
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Engineering Science and Technology, an International JournalClassical blockchain consensus designs tightly couple history security to block production, causing work to be irreversibly wasted during forks and requiring either winner-takes-all Proof-of-Work (PoW) races or heavyweight DAG-based validation to ...
Omer Abdelmajeed Idris Mohammed +1 more
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A Conflict Theory of Voting [PDF]
Research in the behavioral psychology of voting has found that voters tend to be poorly informed, highly responsive to candidate personality, and follow a "fast and frugal" heuristic.
Jeremy Petranka
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An Ensemble Based Machine Learning Classification for Automated Glaucoma Detection
Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence JournalGlaucoma is an irredeemable eye disease that causes sight degeneration and is the fourth leading cause of vision impairment as per the World Report on Vision 2019.
Digvijay J. Pawar +2 more
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Probabilistic voting models with varying speeds of Correlation decay
Advances in Applied ProbabilityAbstractWe model voting behaviour in the multi-group setting of a two-tier voting system using sequences of de Finetti measures. Our model is defined by using the de Finetti representation of a probability measure (i.e. as a mixture of conditionally independent probability measures) describing voting behaviour.
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SPRC: A novel Sentinel-1/-2 Phenology-enhanced framework for automated paddy rice mapping
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and GeoinformationAccurate mapping of rice cultivation regions is essential for addressing global food challenges and developing climate adaptation strategies. In large-scale paddy rice mapping, obtaining sufficient training samples that capture the range of phenological ...
Jian Li +5 more
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National, Political and Institutional Influence in European Union Decision Making [PDF]
The distribution of decisional power among member states of the EU has remained a hot issue in recent discussions about the future design of European Union decision making and the Lisbon revision of the unsuccessful proposal of the Constitutional Treaty.
František Turnovec
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional ...
Emanuele, Canegrati
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