In this paper, an experimental comparison between fixed and trained fusion rules for multimodal personal identity verification is reported. We focused on the behaviour of the considered fusion methods for ensembles of classifiers exhibiting significantly different performance, as this is one of the main characteristics of multimodal biometrics systems. The experiments were carried out on the XM...

Turkey has seen a surge in populist nationalism over the last decade. How this played out transnational space through overseas Turkish citizens’ voting behaviour remains understudied, however. This article takes up question, focusing on how populist–nationalist appeals of ruling AKP have been received by citizens Europe. Specifically, it asks why such resonated highly with voters some host coun...

This is an analysis of strategic voting under qualified majority voting. Existing formal analyses of the plurality rule predict complete coordination of strategic voting: a strict interpretation of Duverger’s Law. This conclusion is rejected. Unlike previous models, the popular support for each option is not commonly certain. Agents base their vote on both public and private signals of popular ...

This paper reports an explorative analysis on the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies. I contend that processes representing democratic performance are conducive to changes in legitimacy. A conceptual and empirical discussion is presented to establish this relationship. Democratic performance appears to change due to less trust in parties as representatives and variations i...

in this article despite of emphasis on the role of political cultural and religious factors to making political behavior and decision of society we try to explaining the relation between social and economical dissatisfaction and voting to political factions in iran.(in this article our concern is about voting to second khordad faction under the leadership of khatamy). in this theory we want to ...

Citizenship and participation in society have been emphasised as important for persons with intellectual disabilities in Sweden for four decades. The aim of the study was to describe, from a longitudinal perspective, how persons with intellectual disabilities experience citizenship and voting. The characteristics of becoming and being a voter were also identified. Thirteen women and seven men, ...