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The importance of electoral rule: Evidence from Italy
No full textWe employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the eect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy from 1993 to 2001, that moved the system for electing the Par- liament from purely proportional to plurality rule (for 75% of the seats). We do not nd any eect on either the number of parties or the stability of governments (the two main objectives of the reform) that remained unchanged at their pre-reform level.Electoral system; Plurality rule; Duverger's law; Bootstrap.
asl-epfl/sl-partial-icassp2020: Social Learning with Partial Information (ICASSP2020)
No full textThis code can be used to generate simulations similar to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the following paper:
Virginia Bordignon, Vincenzo Matta, and Ali H. Sayed, ``Social learning with partial information sharing,'' Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Barcelona, Spain, May 2020. DOI: ICASSP40776.2020.9052947
Figs. 1 and 2 are generated executing file 'codefig12.py'.
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Fig. 5 is generated executing file 'codefig5.py'.
Please note that the code is not generally perfected for performance, but is rather meant to illustrate certain results from the paper. The code is provided as-is without guarantees.
July 2020 (Author: Virginia Bordignon
asl-epfl/asl-eusipco2020: Adaptation in Online Social Learning (EUSIPCO 2020)
No full textThis code can be used to generate simulations similar to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the following paper:
Virginia Bordignon, Vincenzo Matta, and Ali H. Sayed, "Adaptation in online social learning,'' Proc. EUSIPCO, pp. 1-5, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2020. DOI:10.23919/Eusipco47968.2020.9287445
Fig. 1 is generated executing file 'codefig1.py'.
Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are generated executing file 'codefig234.py'.
Please note that the code is not generally perfected for performance, but is rather meant to illustrate certain results from the paper. The code is provided as-is without guarantees.
July 2020 (Author: Virginia Bordignon
asl-epfl/graph_influence_icassp2020: Learning Graph Influence from Social Interactions
No full textThis code can be used to generate simulations similar to Fig. 1 in the following paper:
Vincenzo Matta, Virginia Bordignon, Augusto Santos, and Ali H. Sayed, ``Learning graph influence from social interactions,'' Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Barcelona, Spain, May 2020. DOI: ICASSP40776.2020.9054244
Fig. 1 is generated executing file 'codefig1.py'.
Please note that the code is not generally perfected for performance, but is rather meant to illustrate certain results from the paper. The code is provided as-is without guarantees.
July 2020 (Author: Virginia Bordignon
Lo spazio tra il leader e il popolo. La mediazione politica nella democrazia post-moderna
No full textPersonalizzazione e disintermediazione sono i fenomeni, fra loro intrecciati, che maggiormente spiegano la trasformazione della politica nella fase recente. Il direttismo suggerisce, peraltro, percorsi diversi per rilanciare la democrazia, che tuttavia sfidano il suo carattere rappresentativo e, secondo alcuni, la democrazia tout court. Da un lato, l’ascesa degli “uomini forti”: leader di partito e di governo, che, spingendo sul legame diretto con il popolo, accelerano il processo di presidenzializzazione della politica. Dall’altro lato, il revival della democrazia diretta, certificato dal ricorso, sempre più frequente, al referendum. Sullo sfondo, la crisi dei mediatori: dei partiti e, più in generale, di qualsiasi corpo intermedio. Degli stessi media: sempre più centrali quale mezzo per veicolare il messaggio del leader e dei cittadini, tendono però a scomparire come attori inter-medi – tra emittente e destinatario, tra rappresentanti e rappresentati. In questo scenario, modelli apparentemente antagonisti di disintermediazione convivono e, spesso, si ritrovano all’interno dello stesso progetto politico. La stessa democrazia diretta sembra associarsi al ruolo di super-mediatori. I leader, dal canto loro, si appellano al popolo, anche attraverso l’utilizzo (plebiscitario) del referendum. La politica post-moderna, così, sembra destinata a convivere con spinte contrastanti, che, se portate all’estremo, conducono addirittura oltre il perimetro della democrazia (rappresentativa)
Botanical Awareness and Adolescent Maturation in Siri Pettersen’s Odin’s Child
No full textThis article supports the thesis that (eco)fantasy novels written for young adult people are nowadays crucial to give the next generation an ecological expertise to face environmental challenges. It is therefore important to consider what perceptions of nature are actually conveyed through the reading of these literary works, thus involving a pure dissemination of knowledge about flora. The novel Odin’s Child (Odinsbarn, 2013) by Siri Pettersen is considered here, giving voice to arboreal and botanical perspectives and basing the analysis on phytocriticism and the recent developments in ecocriticism. Odin’s Child supports the belief that a deep knowledge about botanical elements can be shared through the practice of embodiment and through an active interaction with the plant world, especially at a young age; for this reason, the importance of liminality and the role of contemporary literature in the human maturation process are underlined here. Plants play multiple sustainable roles in our life and for the survival of the planet: they are sources of medical treatments, and absorbers of carbon dioxide and other air pollutants (Jones and MacLeod 2022). Yet, it is only recently that scholars from the humanities have started analysing the role of plants in fiction, inaugurating the so-called ‘plant-turn’. The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of plants and botanical knowledge in young people’s understanding of and engagement with the natural world via young adult literature. This article’s approach will underscore the pedagogical value of ecofantasy as a suitable genre in creating empathy and a positive attunement towards flora in young readers. The central part of this paper, informed by the work of John C. Ryan (2018) and his phytocritical method, provides an analysis of the botanical elements of the econovel Odin’s Child, with an emphasis on its affective potential. A final reflection will involve new materialistic visions – such as the concepts of hybridisation (Curry 2013) and transcorporeality (Alaimo 2010) – in considering the liminal space of human/non-human and the girl/woman maturation process through which the novel develops
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