We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select … voting rule should encourage parties to collect information. Voting rules that focus on the opposition party sometimes … information. However, in contrast to office motivated parties, policy motivated parties will sometimes select policies that …

, sometimes referred to as modeling ‘tribes', began to engage in productive dialogue in the mid-1990s (IPCC 2001). From this … methodological conversation have emerged modeling approaches that offer a hybrid of the two perspectives. Yet, while individual … publications over the past decade have described efforts at hybrid modeling, there has not as yet been a systematic assessment of …

Modeling activities and scenario building are at the heart of the economic analysis delivered by the ULCOS program. Two … main objectives were followed in the framework of SP9. First the modeling team had to provide a set of coherent energy … these objectives specific tools have been used: POLES model for the global energy system modeling and ISIM model for the …