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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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Quantum voting and violation of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem [PDF]
, 2017 We propose a quantum voting system, in the spirit of quantum games such as the quantum Prisoner's Dilemma. Our scheme enables a constitution to violate a quantum analog of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
Bao, Ning, Halpern, Nicole Yunger
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E-voting discourses in the UK and the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2007 A qualitative case study of the e-voting discourses in the UK and the Netherlands was performed based on the theory of strategic niche management.
Haren, R. van, Pieters, W.
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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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Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior
American Political Science ReviewWhile political scientists regularly engage in spirited theoretical debates about elections and voting behavior, few have noticed that elected politicians also have theories of elections and voting. Here, we investigate politicians’ positions on eight central theoretical debates in the area of elections and voting behavior and compare politicians ...
Lucas, Jack +18 more
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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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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study examines the R&D investment behaviour of different types of family-controlled firms with the moderating role of ownership discrepancy between cash-flow rights and excess voting rights by using the sufficiency conditions’ theoretical ...
Muhammad Zulfiqar +5 more
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Exploiting Polyhedral Symmetries in Social Choice
, 2012 A large amount of literature in social choice theory deals with quantifying the probability of certain election outcomes. One way of computing the probability of a specific voting situation under the Impartial Anonymous Culture assumption is via counting
A Barvinok +16 more
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