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On Removing the Condorcet Influence from PairwiseElections Data
Chandra, Abhijit; Roy, Sunanda - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010
Recent developments in voting theory show that Condorcet profiles embedded in electoratesare responsible for conflicts … between pairwise voting methods and for reversals ofrankings under positional methods whenever candidates are dropped or added …
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On the Size of the Winning Set in the Presence of Interest Groups
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2005
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore interest...
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On the size of the winning set in the presence of interest groups
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2006
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261435
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Endogenous community formation and collective provision: A procedurally fair mechanism
Güth, Werner - 2013
A group of actors, individuals or firms, can engage in collectively providing projects which may be costly or generating revenues and which may benefit some and harm others. Based on requirements of procedural fairness (Güth and Kliemt, 2013), we derive a bidding mechanism determining...
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Best practices of the social innovations in the framework of the e-government evolution
Roblek, Vasja; Pejić Bach, Mirjana; Mesko, Maja; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) 53, pp. 275-302
The social innovations have been together with the advanced technology in the 21st century, taking an essential role in social structures and their informatization processes. Information technology has become an indispensable factor not only in industry and service businesses, but also in...
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Public governance of central banks: an approach from new institutional economics
Oritani, Yoshiharu - Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich <Basel> - 2010
wirft auf die öffentliche Verwaltung der Zentralbanken. Erstens Williamson's Theorie der "Governance als Unversehrtheit …" (Rechtschaffenheit) ist die interne Verwaltung der Zentralbanken angewendet. Moe's Theorie der "öffentlichen Bürokratie" ist das Konzept … der Unabhängigkeit der Zentralbank angewandt. Zweitens wenden wir Agency-Theorie, die... …
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Standardization and Markets : Just Exactly Who is the Government, and Why Should Antitrust Care?
Sagers, Chris - 2011
We take for granted that the basic choice in public policy is between allocation of resources by government bureaucracy, on the one hand, or allocation by markets, on the other. But that dichotomy is false, and at least under contemporary circumstances it is more accurate to describe the choice...
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Merit Pay and Pain : Linking Congressional Pay to Performance
McPike, Jonathan David - 2011
Despite the Founding Fathers' careful planning, the reason for the public's lack of confidence in Congress is that elections, like the institutional checks and balances of federalism and separation of powers, are necessary but not sufficient to ensure that Congress acts in the best interests of...
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The Bank of Britain
Investin, Bob - 2010
Following on from a paper by Yoshiharu Oritani, Public Governance of Central Banks: An Approach from New Institutional Economics. Public governance is an institutional framework whereby the general public governs a central bank by and through the legislative and executive bodies in a country....
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The Sad Triology - The Crisis of a Nation : The Delirium
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
This is the first part of a book I started writing in the year 2008 under the title of Sad Triology: The Crisis of a Nation. I name this chapter the Delirium as it represents the political response to what happens in the country due to the international outrage and pressures to Darfur Crisis....
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