Intra-party decision-making in contemporary Europe: improving representation or ruling with empty shells?

Party formation in collective decision-making

We study party formation in a general model of collective decisionmaking, modeling parties as agglomerations of policy positions championed by decision-makers. We show that if there are economies of party size and the policy chosen is not beaten by another policy in pairwise voting, then players agglomerate into exactly two parties. This result does not depend on the magnitude of the economies ...

The gendered nature of intra-household decision making in and across Europe

After surveying the literature on the economics of household decision-making, we employ data from the 2010 European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to study the relationship between personal characteristics such as gender and decision-making power and responsibility. We find that across Europe, women more often make decisions about everyday spending and purchases for chil...

A Multi-Party Negotiation Game for Improving Crisis Management Decision Making

(EEMCS) for the department of Mediamatics. The topic of this thesis is the design and implementation of a training game intended for improving the crisis management decision making process. I would like to thank my supervisor Birna van Riemsdijk for her guidance and support during this project. I also thank Zhiyong Wang for his help during various phases of this project including assisting with...

Confidence-based Representation in Decision Making

ion (derived from Latin abstrahere “to strip off, remove forcibly”) is “the process which allows people to consider what is relevant and to forget a lot of irrelevant details which would get in the way of what they are trying to do” [Giunchiglia and Walsh, 1992]. Abstractionbased processes are pervasive in human reasoning. The earliest and most common use of abstraction was in problem solving. ...

Improving Knowledge and Communication for Decision Making on Air Pollution and Health in Europe