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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"voting theory"”.
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Computational Voting Theory: Game-Theoretic and Combinatorial Aspects
<p>For at least two thousand years, voting has been used as one of the most effective ways to aggregate people's ordinal preferences. In the last 50 years, the rapid development of Computer Science has revolutionize every aspect of the world, including voting. This motivates us to study (1) …
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List, Sample, and Count
… contexts including combinatorics, cryptography, voting theory, and game theory. Next, we consider permutations of n pairs of numbers, called Skolem sequences. These sequences are employed in several areas including construction of Steiner triple systems, binary sequences with controllable …
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Party Voting In The American States: How National Factors And Institutional Variation Affect State Elections
… existing theories that help to explain how party voting is affected by the presidential election cycle. Specifically, I examine the effect of presidential coattails, surge and decline theory, national referendum voting theory and vertical policy balancing theory. Surge and decline and referendum …
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The Advancements on the Interface of Statistical Computing, Survival Analysis, and Degradation Analysis
… the potential applications of the PMD in voting theory, ecological inference, and machine learning. In degradation analysis, a dataset from a field study presents challenges in degradation modeling with the existence of multiple degradation characteristics (DCs) and dynamic covariates. A …
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ECONOMIC VOTING DYNAMICS: ELECTORAL IMPLICATIONS OF MONETARY POLICY SHIFTS AND PARTISAN POLICY
… dissertation makes contributions to the economic voting literature in relation to the monetary policy trade-off in two interrelated aspects. First, it refines the Rational Partisan Theory by developing a special case of the policy rule to the existing discretionary policy assumption. The …
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Essays in Experimental and Public Economics
… Economics: public goods provision and</p><p>voting theory. It consists of three independent papers, with two using experimental</p><p>methodology and one using empirical data to examine the effectiveness of the models. In the following I briefly summarize each of the papers.</p><p>Economists …
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REALIZING TOURNAMENTS AS MODELS FOR K-MAJORITY VOTING
… directed graph that models a <em>k</em>-majority voting scenario, which is realized by 2<em>k</em> - 1 rankings, called linear orderings, of the vertices in the tournament. Every <em>k</em>-majority voting scenario can be modeled by a tournament, but not every tournament is a model for a …
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Design and evaluation of a voting tool in a collaborative environment
… implemented, and evaluated a Web-based Dynamic Voting Toolfor small group decision-making in a collaborative environment. In this dissertation, theliterature on voting tools in current GDSS research is presented. Variousvoting theories and methods are analyzed, and the advantages and …