This paper examines three aspects of Brexit with regards to the NHS. First, we consider influence views regarding one most contentious issues in referendum campaign: Vote Leave’s claim that ‘savings’ from EU membership could alternatively be used provide additional funding for We find about NHS underfunding had a relatively small, but statistically significant, effect on leave voting even after...

Abstract The goal of this paper is to study the electoral impact crisis management policies. With aim, we exploit a natural experiment during COVID-19 pandemic in France evaluate effect lockdown on voting behaviour. In particular, country has been divided two areas, red and green, subject ‘hard’ ‘soft’ lockdown, respectively. To measure behaviour, before after policy, rely 2020 French municipal...

The current development of e-voting systems worldwide raises several specific interesting issues from a legal point of view. Auditability measures, identification procedures or guarantees for voting secrecy and equality are good examples, but we often forget a fundamental question: the usefulness of these new technologies. This paper intends to provide an answer that takes into account the comp...

It is debatable if current direct-recording electronic voting machines can sufficiently be trusted for a use in elections. Reports about malfunctions and possible ways of manipulation abound. Voting schemes have to fulfill seemingly contradictory requirements: On one hand the election process should be verifiable to prevent electoral fraud and on the other hand each vote should be deniable to a...

In many sport competitions athletes, teams, or countries are evaluated based on several variables. The strong assumptions underlying traditional 'linear weight' scoring systems (that the relative importance, interactions and linearizing transformations of the variables are known) can often not be justified on theoretical grounds, and empirical 'validation' of weights, interactions and transform...