Abstract In this article, I explore the implications of three moral grounds for justification supported voting – respect as opacity, equal status, and political care. For each ground, ask whether it justifies surrogate voters unable to either communicate or give effect their electoral judgments, due some cognitive communicative disability. (Henceforth: incommunicability cases.) argue that opaci...

Little is known about what happens after an unsuccessful equity crowdfunding campaign. Taking a socioemotional wealth perspective, we hypothesize that family business start-ups are more likely to eventually still raise financing relative nonfamily start-ups. Moreover, while initially less provide voting rights, they offer shares with rights Using data on the UK market, find support for our hypo...

OBJECTIVE The right to vote can be abrogated when persons become incompetent to cast a ballot. This applies particularly to people with Alzheimer's disease, who at some point will lose capacity. A 2001 federal court decision offered the first clear criteria ("Doe voting capacity standard") for determining voting competence, focused on understanding the nature and effect of voting and on the abi...

A voting scheme assigns to each profile of alternatives chosen by n individuals a compromise alternative. Here the set of alternatives is represented by the Euclidean plane. The individual utilities for the compromise point are equal to the negatives of the distances of this point to the individually best points. These distances are measured by a given strictly convex norm, common to all agents...

Please cite this article in press as: F. Sebé et al., doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2009.11.013 Remote voting permits an election to be carried out through telecommunication networks. In this way, its participants are not required to physically move to the polling place. Votes are automatically collected and counted so that once the election ends, the results can be published after a very short delay. S...

ABSTRACT This article argues that advancements in women’s rights the Inter-American diplomatic system after WWII did not solely follow women activists’ interests but resulted from male-dominated multilateral relations region too. In support of these negotiations, new political vocabulary Human Rights emerging re-configuration world affairs was instrumental for advancement institutional reforms ...