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Empowering Democracy: Does Blockchain Unlock the E-Voting Potential for Citizens?

open access: yesHuman Behavior and Emerging Technologies
The adoption of blockchain technology continues to grow, a direct result of its potential to provide new solutions to old problems in several industries, including the electoral sector.
Margarida Roldão Pereira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Majority vote following a debate [PDF]

open access: yes
Voters determine their preferences over alternatives based on cases (or arguments) that are raised in the public debate. Each voter is characterized by a matrix, measuring how much support each case lends to each alternative, and her ranking is additive ...
GILBOA, Itzhak, VIEILLE, Nicolas
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Exit, Voice, and Cyclicality: A Micro-Logic of Voting Behaviour in European Parliament Elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Unlike other classics of political economy, “Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” (EVL) has not sparked many innovations in the field of electoral studies. This paper aims to demonstrate that scholars miss out on a powerful theory of political behaviour by leaving ...
Weber, Till
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Increased Differentiation or Stronger Uniformity [PDF]

open access: yes
closer cooperation; differentiation; institutions; integration theory; law; majority voting; Single Market; subsidiarity; Treaty on European Union ...
Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
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Long‐term trends in parasite diversity and infection levels: approaches and patterns

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Parasites exist in every ecosystem, affecting nearly all organisms and playing a complex role in human societies. On the one hand, they contribute substantially to biodiversity and support ecosystem stability by performing essential ecological functions.
Cyril Hammoud   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expected Closeness or Mobilisation: Why Do Voters Go to the Polls? Empirical Results for Switzerland, 1981 – 1999 [PDF]

open access: yes
Using data of Swiss referenda from 1981 to 1999, this paper presents new empirical results which allow us to discriminate better between the decision and mobilisation hypotheses of electoral participation.
Gebhard Kirchgässner, Tobias Schulz
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Institutional Ownership and Corporate Sustainability Performance—A Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between institutional ownership (IO) and corporate sustainability performance (SP), addressing inconsistent findings in prior research and clarifying the boundary conditions of this relationship by testing a defined set of potential moderators.
Hans Henrik Scherer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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