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Democracy at the polls : A comparative study of competitive national elections

Butler, David (ed.); Penniman, Howard Rae (ed.) - 1981

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Does the Borda Rule Provide More than a Ranking?

Marchant, Thierry - 2000

Consider the following problem: a set of candidates {x, y, z} has to be ranked from best to worse by a committee. Each member of the committee provides his own ranking of the three candidates and you decide to use the Borda method to aggregate the rankings. The resulting scores are as follows:...

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The Acceptance of Priority Criteria in Health Care : International Evidence

Ahlert, Marlies - 2015

Social health care systems around the world are inevitably confronted with the scarcity of resources and the resulting distributional challenges. Prioritization is applied in almost all countries, implicitly or explicitly, and shapes access to health services. We analyze and compare attitudes...

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From Electoral to Policy Representation : A Comparison of 34 Democracies

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

importance of policy representation as a useful conceptual tool for the study of democracy, as well as the role that ideas …

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Threats to Democratic Stability : Comparing the Elections of 2016 and 1860

Chinn, Stuart - 2018

Assessing how great a threat President Trump poses to American democracy is a thorny task. Here my analysis on this … question will be through a comparative-historical lens: namely, by comparing the election of 2016 to the election of Lincoln in … 1860. The reference to the 1860 election for this inquiry is obvious enough: the victory by Lincoln did ultimately spark a …

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The Varieties of Comparative Institutional Analysis

Cole, Daniel H. - 2013

This paper, written as a contribution to a festchrift in honor of Neil Komesar, subjects his "comparative institutional analysis" (CIA) to a comparative analysis with various other social-scientific approaches to CIA. Neil Komesar is among the very few legal scholars who has taken to heart...

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Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc - 2015

criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …

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Cultural Comparison of the United States and China from the Project Manager's Perspective

Ray, Jeffrey - 2015

Knowledge of cultural impacts helps project managers understanding of cultural perspectives of all stakeholders. Since cultural differences can become organizational performance barriers, it is important to consider how cultural dimensions can affect decision making. This paper uses the model...

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Law as a Seamless Web? Comparison of Various Network Representations of the United States Supreme Court Corpus (1791-2005)

Bommarito, Michael James; Katz, Daniel Martin; Zelner, Jon - 2010

Citation networks are a cornerstone of network research and have been important to the general development of network theory. Citation data have the advantage of constituting a well-defined set where the nature of nodes and edges is reasonably well specified. Much interesting and important work...

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Determinants of direct democracy

Fiorino, Nadia (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2007

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