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Attitudes Toward Social Media Versus Voting Among Adolescents and Youth in a Politicized Context: Chile Before and After the 2019 Social Uprising (2018–2022) [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesFollowing Chile’s October 2019 Social Uprising, social media increased as a key arena for youth political expression, leading us to investigate how adolescents (15–17) and young adults (18–21 and 22–24) transformed their attitudes toward social media as ...
Rodrigo Torres
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An Evolutionary View of the U.S. Supreme Court
Mathematical and Computational Applications, 2021 The voting patterns of the nine justices on the United States Supreme Court continue to fascinate and perplex observers of the Court. While it is commonly understood that the division of the justices into a liberal branch and a conservative branch ...
Noah Giansiracusa
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Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022 The aim of this research work was to investigate the applicability of smart contracts in the context of automating the process of managing meeting minutes. To this end, smartMinutes, a proof-of-concept prototype of automating meeting minutes was designed,
Amir Salar Hajy Sheikhi +3 more
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An Improved Three-Way Clustering Based on Ensemble Strategy
Mathematics, 2022 As a powerful data analysis technique, clustering plays an important role in data mining. Traditional hard clustering uses one set with a crisp boundary to represent a cluster, which cannot solve the problem of inaccurate decision-making caused by ...
Tingfeng Wu, Jiachen Fan, Pingxin Wang
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Terminated marketing order provided resources to California peach and nectarine growers
California Agriculture, 2020 Marketing orders allow farmers to collectively fund industry-wide services that may be difficult to provide through a voluntary approach. But not all farmers support collective approaches. We employed ballot data from U.S.
Zoë Plakias +2 more
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The Three-Legged Stool of Voter Engagement
Critical Social Work, 2020 Disparities in voter turnout have increased significantly over the past four decades. Members of historically oppressed groups, those who are low-income, and or who have lower levels of education vote at significantly lower rates than white, wealthy and ...
Adelaide K. Sandler +3 more
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Gender Differences in Civic and Political Engagement and Participation Among Italian Young People
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2021 A substantial amount of literature has revealed gender gaps in political participation. However, little is known about such gaps when using more comprehensive measures of civic and political participation including online participation.
Serena Stefani +5 more
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Social Sciences, 2023 Party leaders are increasingly relevant to voters’ choices in parliamentary systems. However, most studies addressing the electoral impact of leaders have largely ignored voters’ emotional responses to party leaders.
Ángel Cazorla Martín +2 more
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Voting Power and Voting Blocs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 We investigate the method of power indices to study voting power of members of a legislature that has voting blocs. Our analysis is theoretical, intended to contribute to a theory of positive political science in which social actors are motivated by the pursuit of power as measured by objective power indices. Our starting points are the papers by Riker
Leech, Dennis, Leech, Robert
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THE USE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IN LAW, POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
RUDN Journal of Law, 2018 The article examines the existing practice of using blockchain technology in law, politics and public administration, as well as the prospects of its further use in these areas.
Konstantin E Sigalov +2 more
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