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Practicing Ballot Secrecy : Postal Voting and the Witness Requirement at the 2019 Finnish Elections
2021
Electoral rights belong to the core of citizenship in democratic nation-states. Voting, then, represents an actualization of the relationship between the citizen and the political community. For citizens living outside the country in which they are eligible to vote, voting signifies a rare institutional connection to the country of origin. The aim of this article is to explore the introduction of the postal vote, a new form of voting for external voters at Finnish elections, from the grassroots perspective. The study focuses on how a central policy concern, safeguarding ballot secrecy, was resolved in the policy implementation by the witness requirement, and how the individual voters subseq…
Il voto digitale: tra assenteismo parlamentare e astensionismo popolare. Problemi e prospettive
2023
Lo scritto affronta il vasto tema del voto digitale facendo riferimento tanto alla partecipazione popolare quanto a quella parlamentare. Partendo da una comparazione delle esperienze degli altri ordinamenti, il lavoro mira a stimolare una riflessione circa la convenienza dell’introduzione del voto digitale nei procedimenti elettorali e in alcuni aspetti delle procedure parlamentari. Essendo da tempo discussa l’affidabilità di tali sistemi informatici, l’articolo intende, inoltre, soffermarsi sui più recenti sviluppi in tema di cyber-security e blockchain, cercando di illustrare come grazie a questi si potrebbero ottenere livelli di affidabilità e trasparenza idonei a mettere alla prova, sen…
<title>Expanding context against weighted voting of classifiers</title>
2000
In the paper we propose a new method to integrate the predictions of multiple classifiers for Data Mining and Machine Learning tasks. The method assumes that each classifier stands in it's own context, and the contexts are partially ordered. The order is defined by monotonous quality function that maps each context to the value from the interval [0,1]. The classifier that has the context with better quality is supposed to predict better than the classifier from worse quality. The objective is to generate the opinion of `virtual' classifier that stands in the context with quality equal to 1. This virtual classifier must have the best accuracy of predictions due to the best context. To do thi…
Exporting Corporate Governance: Do Foreign and Local Proxy Advisors Differ?
2018
Prior research documents that the large US-based proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis (GL), play an important role as information intermediaries in corporate governance worldwide. We provide initial evidence on the role of local proxy advisors, using the German setting. We analyse voting recommendations by local (IVOX) and foreign (ISS, GL) proxy advisors. First, we find that IVOX’s voting recommendations differ substantially from those of ISS and GL. Second, we observe that IVOX’s against-recommendations are significantly negatively associated with voting support. Third, we find that this association is particularly negative for voting outcomes at compan…
Constitutional Implications of electoral assumptions
2001
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Mielipidedemokratiasta menettelytapademokratiaan
2018
Parlamentaarinen demokratia on vastakkainen ajattelumalli omalle ehdokkaalle taputtamiselle, josta on sosiaalisen median aikana tullut virtuaalista ”tykkäämistä”. Parlamentaarinen politiikka pitää sisällään vapautta, joka voi parhaimmillaan voimaannuttaa ja vahvistaa riippumattomuutta erilaisista sidonnaisuuksista. nonPeerReviewed
School principals’ point of view on pupils’ participation
2021
La participación es un derecho que los niños y niñas deben tener la oportunidad de ejercer y la escuela es un escenario idóneo para que el alumnado pueda hacer oír su voz exponiendo ideas, tomando decisiones y formulando propuestas. Con el objetivo de detectar las opciones del alumnado de participar en el centro y apuntar vías para maximizarlas efectuamos un estudio a partir de un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc dirigido a todos y todas los directores y directoras de escuelas de Cataluña. En concreto, participaron 684 y los resultados indican que los niños y las niñas no solo opinan en clase, sino que toman decisiones cuando trabajan en grupo, en relación con la convivencia o votando sus prop…
A New Multinomial Accuracy Measure for Polling Bias
2014
In this article, we propose a polling accuracy measure for multi-party elections based on a generalization of Martin, Traugott, and Kennedy's two-party predictive accuracy index. Treating polls as random samples of a voting population, we first estimate an intercept only multinomial logit model to provide proportionate odds measures of each party's share of the vote, and thereby both unweighted and weighted averages of these values as a summary index for poll accuracy. We then propose measures for significance testing, and run a series of simulations to assess possible bias from the resulting folded normal distribution across different sample sizes, finding that bias is small even for polls…
The Egalitarian Quality of Lottocracy
2019
Abstract. Recently, political models which employ lottery-selection instead of ballot voting have been proposed. Proponents argue that such lottocratic models can improve the representation of the population and reduce undemocratic influences. In this paper, I argue that these proposals also satisfy the egalitarian requirement of democracy. I claim that having an equal chance to be selected by lot is equally egalitarian as having an equally weighed vote for two reasons: first, having a chance to be selected by lot satisfies the requirement for political justice better than electoral democracy and second, it provides citizens with equal political influence and not merely equal impac…