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Voting power and voting blocs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 We investigate the applicability of voting power indices, in particular the Penrose index (aka absolute Banzhaf index), in the analysis of voting blocs by means of a hypothetical voting body.
Leech, Robert, Dr. +3 more
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Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming
Transatlantica, 2022 Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism.
Virginia Scharff
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The wholesale problem with Congress: the dangerous decline of expertise in the legislative process
Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2023 Objective: to document the declining respect for expertise in the US Congress, the implications for policymaking given the wholesale nature of the legislative process, and some possible ways to account for the decline of expertise in the legislative ...
R. E. Barkow
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Civic education as a factor in overcoming absenteeism in Ukraine
Політичні дослідження, 2022 This publication examines the features of the manifestations of political absenteeism and public activism in Ukrainian society. The phenomenon, causes of political absenteeism and its impact on the socio-political life in Ukraine are studied, as well as ...
Oleksandr Kornievskyy +2 more
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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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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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Utilitarian Collective Choice and Voting [PDF]
, 2004 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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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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Trading votes for votes: A laboratory study [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Casella, Alessandra, Palfrey, Thomas R.
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