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The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]

open access: yes
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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How Media Represent Australian Indigenous Business: Comparing Australian and International Coverage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Media representations of Indigenous business shape public perceptions, investor confidence and consumer demand, influencing how Indigenous enterprises are valued and understood. This Indigenous‐led study systematically reviews grey literature on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses published between 2006 and 2024 ...
Maria Raciti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An optimal Voting System when Voting is costly [PDF]

open access: yes
We consider the design of an optimal voting system when voting is costly. For a private values model with two alternatives we show the optimality of a voting system that combines three elements: (i) there is an arbitrarily chosen default decision and non-
Bognar, Katalin   +2 more
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The social identity voting model: Ideology and community structures

open access: yesResearch & Politics, 2015
Social identity voting (SIV) is a new model of voting behavior based on the principles of social identity theory. We introduce and use this model to analyze roll call votes for the 35 th through 112 th US Congresses.
Scott D Pauls   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unloader Bracing Is a Biomechanically Rational and Clinically Useful Intervention in Selected Patients With Tibiofemoral Joint Cartilage Pathology: A Modified Delphi Consensus Study

open access: yesArthroscopy, EarlyView.
Purpose To establish an international expert consensus on the role of unloader bracing in the management of focal tibiofemoral cartilage lesions using Delphi methodology to inform clinical decision‐making in both nonoperative and operative contexts and identify future research priorities.
Jonathan T. Super   +37 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Computing power indices for large voting games [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body in which different members have different numbers of votes.
Leech, Dennis, Dennis Leech
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Are COVID-19 conspiracy theories for losers? Probing the interactive effect of voting choice and emotional distress on anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
As the COVID-19 pandemic has increasingly become intertwined with politics, emerging studies have identified political orientations as essential drivers behind public endorsement of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Yet little is known about the relationship
Fen Lin, Xiang Meng, Pei Zhi
doaj   +1 more source

Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the multifaceted dynamics of student sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI)‐based education by integrating sentiment analysis techniques with statistical methods, including Monte Carlo simulations and decision tree modelling, alongside qualitative grounded theory analysis.
Volkan Duran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voting and the Cardinal Aggregation of Judgments [PDF]

open access: yes
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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