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Perception and Decision Making: A Multi-Technique Analysis of Campaign Posters in the 2019 Bogotá Mayoral Election

International Journal of Communication, 2021
Campaign posters are semiotic-discursive resources that form multimodal units of meaning. In political communication, voters’ decision making is affected not only by the verbal message, but also by nonverbal indications or physical features (visual ...
Laura Nadal, Iria Bello Viruega, Neyla Pardo   +2 more
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Political Activism Research: Studying the Evoution of Political Behavior

Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2016
The study of political activism has grown significantly within the last fifty years. Political participation was always the cornerstone of research in political science, but the advent of comparative political behavior studies and quantitative analysis ...
Vincenzo Memoli, Francesca Vassallo
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A foundation for strategic agenda voting [PDF]

We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are widely used in the democratic world: the amendment, also known as the Anglo-American procedure, and the successive, or equivalently the ...
Miguel Ballester, Jose Apesteguia, Yusufcan Masatlioglu   +2 more
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Voting power in the Bretton Woods Institutions [PDF]

, 2004
The constitutions of the Bretton Woods Institutions require decisions to be taken by weighted voting: each member country possesses a number of votes, depending on its quota allocation, all of which must always be cast as a bloc. This leads to a problem
Leech, Robert, Dr., Leech, Dennis
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Practical pollsterless remote electronic voting

, 2007
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.
Timothy W. Storer, Storer, Timothy W.
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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)

Behavioral Sciences
Following 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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Is internet access bad news for media-capturing incumbents?

Journal of Applied Economics, 2019
This paper’s objective is to investigate the effects of internet access on voter behavior in governor elections at the state level in aconsolidating democracy.
Hans Martínez-Torres, Cesáreo Gámez
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And the loser is... Plurality Voting [PDF]

This paper reports on a vote for choosing the best voting rules that was organized among the participants of the Voting Procedures workshop in July, 2010. Among 18 voting rules, Approval Voting won the contest, and Plurality Voting received no support at
Jean-François Laslier
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A Blockchain-Based Approach to Trust System Design in Multi-Agent Environments

Кібернетика та комп'ютерні технології
Introduction. This paper presents a decentralized approach to building a trust system for distributed multi-agent environments using blockchain technology.
Andrii Dovzhenko, Vadym Yaremenko
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Selfish and Prospective. Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting [PDF]

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting.
Mikael Elinder, Panu Poutvaara, Henrik Jordahl   +2 more
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