The effect of minority districts and minority representation on political participation in California / Claudine Gay. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. Research publications reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers, or Board of Directors of the Public Policy Institute of California. Short sections of text, not to exceed three par...

The Condorcet criterion requires a majority winner to be elected whenever it exists. In practice, virtually no social choice procedure or survey research study reports complete pairwise comparisons or a complete ranking of the choice alternatives for each voter, as required by standard majority rule. Thus, majority rule can almost never be computed directly from ballots or survey data. We show ...

We introduce a model to study the effects of social influences in opinion dynamics. In particular, we analyze the voter model, from a socio psychological perspective, by considering the role of conformity. Conformity is a central issue in social psychology as it represents one of people’s behaviors that emerge as result of their interactions. We introduce a voter model where agents, linked in a...

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a prominent paradigm that is considered to continue its dominance in thecomputation at deep sub-micron regime in nanotechnology. The QCA realizations of five-input Majority Voter based multilevel parity generator circuits have been introduced in recent years. However, no attention has been paid towards the QCA instantiation of the generic (n-bit) even and ...

During this STSM, together with my host Prof. Edith Elkind, we initiated the study of the following social choice problem. There is a set of issues, a set of voters, and a set of candidates. Candidates approve or disapprove issues, whereas voters have cardinal valuations for the issues; the valuation of a voter for an issue indirectly implies whether the voter wants the issue to be approved or ...

This paper studies the strategic foundations of the Representative Voter Theorem (Rothstein, 1991), also called the “second version” of the Median Voter Theorem. As a by-product, it also considers the existence of non-trivial strategy-proof social choice functions over the domain of single-crossing preference profiles. The main result presented here is that single-crossing preferences constitut...

The higher integration technologies made it possible for accessing any device so fast that within a fraction of seconds the job can be performed. Now days fast memories exists everywhere during accessing if any error happens that has to be detected and corrected within a fraction of microseconds that is made possible with help high performance error correcting codes(ECCs) such as LDPC and Turbo...