The following scenario was examined in [1]: we toss  ideal coins, then toss those which show tails after the first toss, then toss those which show tails after the second toss, etc. Observe that if, at a given toss, only heads appear, then the process immediately terminates. Suppose instead that we require the coins (all of which showed heads) to be tossed again? Under such a change of rules, ...

We present a model where a society elects candidates belonging to two parties to a national parliament. The electoral rule determines the seats distribution between the two parties. We analyze two electoral rules, multidistrict majority and single-district proportional. The policy outcome is a function of the number of seats the two parties win in the election. We prove that under both systems ...

Although recent research suggests that the selective nature of new media helps foster issue specialists, little empirical evidence has been documented, mostly due to theoretical and methodological limitations. Extending the concept of issue publics, the present study proposes a method to estimate the degree to which an individual is a specialistor a generalist-type citizen. Applying the method ...

OBJECTIVE To obtain information from the members of the boards of devolved health care authorities on their motivations, attitudes and approaches, to evaluate their relative orientations to the expectations of provincial governments, local providers and community members, and to evaluate the influence of members' being employees in health care or social services and being willing to stand for e...

Previous studies on “youtubification” of political communication (May, 2010) have largely focused democratic contexts. This study aims at exploring the role global video-sharing platform in non-democratic communication, using example Russian presidential election 2018. It draws qualitative content analysis 169 videos collected from “Popular” section YouTube during last 2 months campaign. The re...

In this paper we present a new multi-authority secret-ballot election scheme that guarantees privacy, universal verifiability, and robustness. It is the first scheme for which the performance is optimal in the sense that time and communication complexity is minimal both for the individual voters and the authorities. An interesting property of the scheme is that the time and communication comple...

We consider the problem of electing a committee k candidates, subject to constraints as which committees are admissible for constitutional, conventional, or practical reasons. In our framework, candidates given labels an abstraction politician’s religion, film’s genre, song’s language, other attribute, and election outcome is constrained by interval (constraints form “Between 3 5 with label X”)...

Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms.  Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...