Scoring rules, ballot truncation, and the truncation paradox

Multiple votes, ballot truncation and the two-party system: an experiment

Countries that elect their policy-makers by means of Plurality Voting tend to have a two-party system. We conduct laboratory experiments to study whether alternative voting procedures yield a two-party system as well. Plurality Voting is compared with Approval Voting and Dual Voting, both of which allow voters to vote for multiple candidates, but differ in whether voters are required to cast al...

Truncation exercises

One of the most basic tools in the theory of automorphic forms is the truncation operator, first defined in [Langlands: 1966] but elaborated in later work of Jim Arthur (particularly [Arthur: 1978] and [Arthur: 1980]). In spite of its fundamental nature, there are many mysteries about it. In this article I’ll not dispel many of these, but I’ll at least motivate its definition by relating it to ...

The Foot in Truncation

1. Evidence for feet and their internal structure • typological evidence: rhythmical grouping properties found across languages e. • templatic morphology as in reduplication, truncation etc.: assumed to correspond to metrical feet

Compression and truncation revisited

This paper investigates the influence of varying segmental structures on the realizations of utterance-final rising and falling intonation contours. Following Grabe’s study on adjustment strategies in German, i.e. truncation and compression, a similar experiment was carried out, using materials with decreasing stretches of voicing in questions, lists, and statements. However, the results presen...

Truncation and superposition