We demonstrate InstantEspresso, a system to explain the relationship between two sets of entities in knowledge graphs. InstantEspresso answers questions of the form «Which European politicians are related to politicians in the United States, and how?» or «How can one summarize the relationship between China and countries from the Middle East?» Each question is specified by two sets of query ent...

We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may differ in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician’s policy proposals are attractive to the minority of rich agents, whereas those of the competent politician are attractive to the majority of poor agents. The less competent politician wins wi...

To understand the relation between media and politics, it is necessary to study the content of politicians’ statements in the news. This paper presents a method to automatically extract such statements by applying graph transformation rules to the syntactic structure of Dutch newspaper sentences. It also shows how politicians can be identified using a dictionary approach and anaphora resolution...

The experimental research that looks into the effects of political humor on an individual's attitudes toward politics and politicians does not evaluate its long-term effects. With this in mind, this study aims to determine the possible effects that being exposed to humor which belittles politicians may have on an ordinary citizen's trust in them, while at the same time it observes the possible ...

Politicians in‡uence the allocation of …nance either directly via state banks, or indirectly via private banks using banking regulation or creditor rights. With state ownership of banks, entrepreneurs may form coalitions to bribe politicians to obtain scarce loans. With private ownership of banks, interest groups may lobby to in‡uence creditor rights to limit access to less established …rms. Wh...

Despite robust associations between the ventral anterior cingulate cortex (vACC) and social evaluation, the role of vACC in social evaluation remains poorly understood. Two hypotheses have emerged from existing research: detection of positive valence and detection of opportunities for subjective reward. It has been difficult to understand whether one or both hypotheses are supported because pre...

We study the quality of politicians when groups attempt to exert influence on policies by using both bribes (plata, Spanish for silver and money) and the threat of punishments (plomo, Spanish for lead). Contrary to the case in which groups use only bribes (as is traditional in the literature) and more capture does not damage the equilibrium quality of politicians, in the general case where also...

The PoliticalMashup Ngramviewer is an application that allows a user to visualise the use of terms and phrases in the “Tweede Kamer” (the Dutch parliament). Inspired by the Google Books Ngramviewer, the PoliticalMashup Ngramviewer additionally allows for faceting on politicians and parties, providing a more detailed insight in the use of certain terms and phrases by politicians and parties with...

Transmitting messages in the most efficient way as possible has always been one of politicians' main concerns during electoral processes. Due to the rapidly growing number of users, online social networks have become ideal platforms for politicians to interact with their potential voters. Exploiting the available potential of these tools to maximize their influence over voters is one of politic...