Are Populists Sore Losers? Explaining Populist Citizens' Preferences for and Reactions to Referendums

Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries

Despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. We review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare priority-setting and determining their preferences; the Citizens’ Jury (CJ) and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). We discuss the theoretical framework from which each method is de...

Are Populists Friends or Foes of Constitutionalism?

are preferences for assessment techniques related to learners’ learning strategies?

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Institutional Design, Citizens’ Preferences and Policymaking

Much discussion of democratization seems to assume that allowing the citizens to shape public policy is one of the costs, rather than one of the benefits, of introducing a new democracy. Yet, a principal claim of democracy is to connect the desires of citizens and the actions of policymakers. Moreover, institutionalized citizen influence may help constrain elite exploitation and encourage citiz...

Explaining Preferences, Preferring Explanations?

In this paper we study the possibility of providing causal explanations for preferred answer sets, as those obtained from logic programs with ordered disjunction (LPODs). We use a recently defined multi-valued semantics for answer sets based on a causal algebra and consider its direct application to LOPDs by several illustrating examples. We also explain the limitations of this simple approach ...