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The \(k\)-Fold Matroid Secretary Problem

11 pages, 1 figure, to appear in SOSA ...
Rishi Gujjar, Kevin Hua, Robert Kleinberg, Frederick V. Qiu   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Challenging the ‘S’ of Mayoral Strategic Authorities: Standardisation over Strategy?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The Labour government's English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (EDCEB) represents the most ambitious attempt yet to embed devolution and ‘empower communities’ across England, completing the map of devolution under mayoral strategic authorities.
Nicholas P. Sweeney
wiley   +1 more source

The Red–Green Electoral Threat to the Labour Party

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For the first time, Labour faces credible electoral threats from minor parties to its left. The Greens and the newly formed Your Party offer left‐wing and Muslim voters disillusioned with Labour viable electoral alternatives and parliamentary representation. This article considers how great the threat is to Labour. It uses a model of how minor
Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen, John Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Christopher Hilliard
wiley   +1 more source

Secretary problem revisited: Optimal selection strategy for top candidates using one try in a generalized version of the problem [PDF]

Annals of computer science and information systems
Lubomír Štěpánek
doaj   +1 more source

John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections

Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Kingdom's emergence as a public sector pioneer in the four‐day working week debate presents a striking paradox. A post‐Thatcher liberal market economy hostile to statutory working‐time reform might be expected to resist government‐sponsored working‐time reduction in the public sector.
Joan Sanchis, Raúl de Arriba
wiley   +1 more source

Minority Government in Wales: Lessons for the Future?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Minority situations have been a consistent theme at each of the seven Senedd elections since the introduction of devolution in Wales in 1999. These situations look set to continue following the introduction of a new, more proportional electoral system at the most recent election in May 2026.
Gareth Evans
wiley   +1 more source