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Edelman, Paul H. - In: Social choice and welfare 44 (2015) 4, pp. 911-925

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European Parliament elections in times of crisis

In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 49 (2014) 1, pp. 4-29

extent due to the financial crisis and its aftermath – and the participation rate in European Parliament elections has … democratic legitimacy. This Forum examines the economic agendas of the main political parties vying for power and the potential …

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A Theory of Civil Disobedience

Glaeser, Edward L.; Sunstein, Cass R. - 2015

From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the prevalence and extremity of acts of civil disobedience? This paper presents a model in which protest planners choose the nature of the disturbance hoping to influence voters (or...

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Voting Schemes in DAO Governance

Ding, Qinxu; Xu, Weibiao; Wang, Zhiguo; Lee, David Kuo Chuen - 2023

This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the different voting schemes used in DAO governance. We will examine the various features of these schemes and compare their differences. We propose a new hypothetical voting mechanism specifically designed for decentralized and...

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Institutional change and legitimacy via urban elections? : people's awareness of elections and participation in Urban neighbourhoods (Shequ)

Heberer, Thomas - 2006

This paper analyses institutional reforms and political participation, most notably indirect and direct elections of … not meaningful to the majority of city dwellers as the RCs have little decision-making power and no revenues generated by … awareness and participation. For instance, they make people voice more opinions in their shequ, which may be a good starting …

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013

In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations ́power to shape...

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