In this paper I study the strategic implications of coalition formation in an assembly. A coalition forms a voting bloc to coordinate the voting behavior of its members, acting as a single player and affecting the policy outcome. In a game of endogenous coalition formation, I show that voting blocs form in equilibrium, and in an assembly with two parties I show how the incentives to join a bloc...

Reseña del libro de Mahmoud, Houzan. Kurdish Women’s Stories. Londres, Pluto Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-17-86806482. 206 páginas

The allocation of risks among the contracting parties in a contract is an important decision affecting the project success. Some risks in a project are uncontrollable; these are imposed to a project by external factors. Since contracting parties can neither control nor affect the occurrence of such risks, their allocation to a party would be inequitable. Therefore the cost overrun related to un...

The widespread use of social media platforms and the internet has increased information sharing, including both true false news. Detecting fake news is challenging, several studies have been conducted to automate this process for popular languages such as English Arabic. However, more research must be done on detecting in low-resource Kurdish. This gap was addressed, a publicly available Kurdis...

This commentary seeks to examine the extent which Kurdish liberation projects are free from global colonial continuities. While discussion on colonialism and Kurdistan typically centres Kurds’ relationships with their immediate colonisers, it obscures at least two forms of continuities in projects. A decolonial perspective built coloniality concept enables these Firstly, manifestation politico-...