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A Impact Analysis of Digitalized Voting System on Voting Behavior and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 Election results in most African countries are hardly transmitted using digitalized devices. This has created room for suspicion and discrediting of electoral integrity in part of Africa.
Samuel Chukwudi Agunyai +2 more
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Voting Theory for Concept Detection
Extended Semantic Web Conference, 2012 This paper explores the issue of detecting concepts for ontology learning from text. Using our tool OntoCmaps, we investigate various metrics from graph theory and propose voting schemes based on these metrics. The idea draws its root in social choice theory, and our objective is to mimic consensus in automatic learning methods and increase the ...
A. Zouaq, D. Gašević, M. Hatala
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A Condorcet Voting Theory Based AHP Approach for MCDM Problems
, 2017 Analytical Hierarchical Process has been used as a useful methodology for multi-criteria decision making environments with substantial applications in recent years.
S. Bhattacharya, V. Raju
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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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The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]
, 2005 Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval voting, allowing
Hillinger, Claude
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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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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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A Local-Dominance Theory of Voting Equilibria [PDF]
, 2014 It is well known that no reasonable voting rule is strategyproof. Moreover, the common Plurality rule is particularly prone to strategic behavior of the voters and empirical studies show that people often vote strategically in practice.
Lev, Omer +2 more
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