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How Can Parliaments Optimally Organize Voting Procedures?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2019), 7 mins
Parliaments and parliamentary committees can resolve binary decisions by simple majority voting. In this video, BENNY MOLDOVANU considers the impact of voting procedures on more complex decisions, analyzing factors including the order and sequencing of votes. Modeling the games that specific voting procedures indu...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2019), 7 mins
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Is Political Competition Good for Social Welfare?
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produced by Latest Thinking (Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 13 mins
The model presented in this video combines a game theoretic approach with mechanism design to examine the influence of competition on welfare maximization by politicians. It is shown that in “pure” competition between two politicians only the allocation of favors to the electorate helps winning elections, whil...
produced by Latest Thinking (Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 13 mins
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What Are the Core Mechanisms that Drive the Dynamics of Political Discourse?
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The research presented in this video exposes the inner mechanisms at work in political discourse. By first modelling verbal interaction between political actors with an agent-based model, and then analyzing the interaction with network analysis PHILIP LEIFELD detects four basic mechanisms: innovative and path-depe...
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
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Where Does the EU’s Acceptance Problem Come from and How Can It Be Counteracted?
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(Latest Thinking, 2017), 18 mins
The European Union does not have sufficient legitimacy and is not well accepted by its citizens which leads to a negative impact on the process of European integration. DIETER GRIMM identifies three sources of this problem. First of all, the way the European Parliament, the democratic body, is elected and works is...
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 18 mins
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