Abstract Online networks have blurred the lines between national and global news, given users a more active role in how information flows. This opens up opportunity for individuals to engage with foreign events new ways, curating offering their own interpretations. In this article, we investigate elections are taken Twittersphere, using set of 198,635 English-language tweets about 2018 Swedish ...

There is ample evidence for a “democracy premium”. Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who participated in public goods experiments and a value survey. We find a premium for top-down rule implement...

We study the complexity of electing a committee under several variants of the Chamberlin–Courant rule when the voters’ preferences are single-peaked on a tree. We first show that this problem is easy for the egalitarian, or “minimax” version of this problem, for arbitrary trees and misrepresentation functions. For the standard (utilitarian) version of this problem we provide an algorithm for an...

This paper uses the Banzhaf power measure to calculate the a priori voting power of individual voters under the existing Electoral College system for electing the President of the United States, as well as under variants of this system in which electoral votes are either apportioned among the states in a different manner or cast by the states in a different manner. While the present winner-take...

In the world’s largest-ever deployment of online voting, the iVote Internet voting system was trusted for the return of 280,000 ballots in the 2015 state election in New South Wales, Australia. During the election, we performed an independent security analysis of parts of the live iVote system and uncovered severe vulnerabilities that could be leveraged to manipulate votes, violate ballot priva...

I develop a model of campaign finance in primary elections in which campaigns, which supply hard information about candidates’ electability, must be financed by strategic donors. I provide a rationale for Super Tuesday electoral calendars in which a block of voters vote simultaneously early in the election followed by other voters voting sequentially. For a range of campaign costs, such a calen...

This paper deals with the performance evaluation of LAN-Integrated Service protocol called SBM (Subnetwork Bandwidth Manager), a solution to handle QoS requirements over Local Area Networks. SBM is an RSVP-based protocol, which consists in electing a manager over a LAN segment to map RSVPflows into an appropriate class of service and handles admission control and bandwidth reservation operation...

We consider the problem of electing a leader on a ring of nameless processors by de terministic and self stabilizing protocols A processor can read the state of its neighbors and its own state to determine if it is enabled A central demon scheduler picks an enabled processor to make an atomic move In an atomic move the processor changes to a new state which is a function of its old state and th...

This paper presents a distributed algorithm, called ST T , for electing deterministically a leader in an arbitrary network, assuming processors have unique identifiers of size O(log n), where n is the number of processors. It elects a leader in O(D + log n) rounds, where D is the diameter of the network, with messages of size O(1). Thus it has a bit round complexity of O(D + log n). This substa...

We present various types of new electronic voting schemes, including two-way, multi-way and multi-selection election schemes, which guarantee privacy, universal verifiability, and robustness. Initially, a voter registers a polynomial function, his public key, with the election committee. Each voter uses his polynomial function to cast his vote in various elections. The distinct feature is that ...