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Voting Power and Voting Blocs [PDF]
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
Dennis Leech, Robert Leech
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Practical pollsterless remote electronic voting [PDF]
This thesis describes the design of a novel class of pollsterless voting schemes. Many cryptographic voting schemes necessitate a pollster because the client side computations are beyond the understanding or ability of the voter.
Storer, Timothy W.
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The problem of impact resistant and variables of electoral properties of candidates for for voting behavior of voters. In particular, it is shown that all factors determining the voting behavior of voters are graded on a fi ed (internal), weakly ...
I. V. Groshev +3 more
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Civic Involvement among Egyptian Youth: The Effect of Personal Socio-Economic Factors on Youth Voting in Egypt [PDF]
This study focuses on civic participation. Young Egyptians show low interest in participating in voluntary service programs and in joining social groups.
Iman Ismail
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Utilitarian Collective Choice and Voting [PDF]
In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow’s theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed.
Claude Hillinger, Hillinger, Claude
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Simulations in Models of Preference Aggregation
Social choice theory provides a theoretical framework for analyzing how to combine individual opinions, preferences, interests or welfare so as to reach a collective decision.
Mostapha Diss, Eric Kamwa
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Gender Differences in Civic and Political Engagement and Participation Among Italian Young People
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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Voting under time pressure [PDF]
In a controlled laboratory experiment we investigate whether time pressure influences voting decisions, and in particular the degree of strategic (insincere) voting.
Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Michele Garagnani
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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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Vote Selling Resistant Voting [PDF]
Creating a secure (purely) remote voting scheme which prevents active vote selling is an open problem. Observing that vote selling has a primarily economic motivation, we propose a novel approach to the problem which prevents a vote seller from profiting by allowing a different party to choose the seller’s vote.
Colin Boyd +2 more
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