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Voting and the Cardinal Aggregation of Judgments [PDF]
, 2004 The paper elaborates the idea that voting is an instance of the aggregation of judgments, this being a more general concept than the aggregation of preferences. To aggregate judgments one must first measure them.
Hillinger, Claude
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Economic theory of democracy and rational voter [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2009 This paper aims to analyze Downs' conceptions of economic theory of democracy and rational voter. The author will defend the thesis that concept of duty as a solution for the paradox of not voting cannot be successfully integrated into the framework of ...
Mladenović Ivan
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E-voting Implementation in Egypt [PDF]
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 2017 Manual elections processes in Egypt have several negative effects; that mainly leads to political corruption due to the lack of transparency. These issues negatively influence citizen’s participation in the political life; while electronic voting systems
Ahmed Eraky
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The Impact of Non-Citizen Population in Regional Differences in Non-Voting in the USA [PDF]
Business Ethics and Leadership, 2022 Given that voting is the bedrock of any functional democracy, it is an intriguing puzzle as to why many eligible voters often choose not to vote. The rational choice theory posits that voters might decide to stay away from voting, especially if they ...
Achintya Ray
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Voting power and voting blocs [PDF]
, 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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Belief in the Round Table Conspiracy and Political Division in Poland
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2020 The functions of the conspiracy theory surrounding the ’89 Round Table in present-day political life are discussed. In the online research conducted in 2018 on a representative sample of Polish citizens, we found that attitudes towards the Round Table ...
Mirosław Kofta, Wiktor Soral
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Altruism, Noise, and the Paradox of Voter Turnout: An Experimental Study
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2015 This paper addresses the paradox of voter turnout, wherein observed voting participation rates are far greater than what rational choice theory would predict. Voters face multiple voting choices, stochastic voting costs, and candidates offering different
Sarah A. Tulman
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The Centrality of Voting in Democracy: The Plebiscitarian Origins of the Idea
Politics and GovernanceDemocracy is often equated with voting, an assumption shared by many defenders, reformers, and critics of liberal democracy. This article explores the origins of the idea of the centrality of voting in democracy, arguing that current thinking about ...
Greg Yudin
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EG-DPoS: Optimized DPoS Consensus Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Game [PDF]
Jisuanji kexue yu tansuoAiming at the problems of low enthusiasm among voting nodes, bribery from malicious nodes, and the vulnerability of sequential block generation by agent nodes in the delegated proof of stake (DPoS) consensus process, an optimized DPoS consensus algorithm
LIU Yong, DENG Xiaohong, LIU Lihui, SHI Yiran, ZHANG Li
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A Neighborhood Rough Classification with Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory
Nantong Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban, 2021 In order to further improve the classification mechanism and the performance of neighborhood classifier, a Dempster-Shafer(D-S) evidence-driven neighborhood rough classification method is proposed.
JU Hengrong; DING Weiping; YIN Tao; FAN Zhe; LIU Jiubing
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