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On Types of Responsiveness in the Theory of Voting
Operations Research and Decisions, 2016 In mathematics, monotonicity is used to denote the nature of the connection between variables. Hence for example, a variable is said to be a monotonically increasing function of another variable if an increase in the value of the latter is always ...
Manfred J. Holler, Hannu Nurmi
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Voting procedures from the perspective of theory of neural networks
Open Engineering, 2016 It is shown that voting procedure in any authority can be treated as Hopfield neural network analogue. It was revealed that weight coefficients of neural network which has discrete outputs −1 and 1 can be replaced by coefficients of a discrete set (−1, 0,
Suleimenov Ibragim +3 more
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The Fallacy of Borda Count Method - Why it is Useless with Group Intelligence and Shouldn’t be Used with Big Data including Banking Customer Services [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Borda Count Method is an important theory in the field of voting theory. The basic idea and implementation methodology behind the approach is simple and straight forward.
Wang Hao
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Improved Voting Algorithm Based on K-truss for Influence Maximization Problem [PDF]
Jisuanji gongcheng, 2022 In the Influence Maximization(IM) problem of social networks, approximation algorithms are used to calculate the impact range of node sets via a significant amount of Monte-Carlo simulations, thus resulting in an increase in time complexity.Most ...
SUN Feixiang, CHEN Weidong, LIN Tiansen
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Trading Votes for Votes. A Dynamic Theory [PDF]
Econometrica, 2019 We develop a framework to study the dynamics of vote trading over multiple binary issues. We prove that there always exists a stable allocation of votes that is reachable in a finite number of trades, for any number of voters and issues, any separable preference profile, and any restrictions on the coalitions that may form.
Palfrey, Thomas R., Casella, Alessandra
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A theory of voting in large elections [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2006 Revised version. Original dated to February 1999. Proposed Running Head: Voting in Large Elections A previous version of this paper was entitled "Quantal Response Voting". The financial support of NSF grants #SBR-9631627 and #SES-0079301 to the California Institute of Technology are gratefully acknowledged.
McKelvey, Richard D., Patty, John W.
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Binary Voting with Delegable Proxy: An Analysis of Liquid Democracy [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2017 The paper provides an analysis of the voting method known as delegable proxy voting, or liquid democracy. The analysis first positions liquid democracy within the theory of binary aggregation.
Zoé Christoff, Davide Grossi
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Institutional Rationality and Paradox of Voting [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2019 There is no convincing explanation in public choice theory for the "paradox of voting". Despite the prediction that rational individuals will decide to abstain, lots of citizens still vote.
Ebad Teimouri +2 more
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Human Enhancements and Voting: Towards a Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Beings
Philosophies, 2021 The phenomenon and ethics of “voting” will be explored in the context of human enhancements. “Voting” will be examined for enhanced humans with moderate and extreme enhancements.
S. J. Blodgett-Ford
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The theory of straight ticket voting
Social Choice and Welfare, 2022 AbstractThis paper explores the effects of the straight-ticket voting option (STVO) on the positions of politicians. STVO, present in some US states, allows voters to select one party for all partisan elections listed on the ballot, as opposed to filling out each office individually.
Olga Gorelkina +2 more
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