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Interview with Jean Francois Revel, author
No full textJean Francois Revel, the author of Without Marx or Jesus, has been quoted as saying, "The United States is now a microcosm for all of the problems man faces." In this interview with Meredith Watts, he discusses a new kind of revolution which could produce successful change without violent upheavalGrayscaleSoun
Beauregard House
No full textGeneral view; The architect Francois Correjolles, whose creole French family emigrated from St. Domingue (Haiti), added new American Federal elements while preserving some of the traditional creole plan. The Beauregard-Keyes House, built in 1826 for wealthy auctioneer Joseph Le Carpentier, is a fine example of a raised, center-hall house. It is named for two of its former tenants, Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant (P.G.T.) Beauregard and author Frances Parkinson Keyes. General Beauregard lived in the home from 1866 to 1868 while he was president of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad. The home features twin curved staircases, leading to a Tuscan portico. The garden's design duplicates the original 1865 plans. (Common Routes: St. Domingue-Louisiana exhibition, 2006) Source: Historic New Orleans Collection [website]; http://www.hnoc.org/ (accessed 1/24/2008
10101 Executive Summary – Computational Foundations of Social Choice
No full textThis seminar addressed some of the key issues in computational social choice, a novel interdisciplinary field of study at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. Computational social choice is concerned with the application of computational techniques to the study of social choice mechanisms, such as voting rules and fair division protocols, as well as with the integration of social choice paradigms into computing. The seminar brought together many of the most active researchers in the field and focussed the research community currently forming around these important and exciting topics
10101 Abstracts Collection – Computational Foundations of Social Choice
No full textFrom March 7 to March 12, 2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10101
``Computational Foundations of Social Choice '' was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics.
During the seminar, several participants presented their current
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of
the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section
describes the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available
Alien theory : the decline of materialism in the name of matter
No full textThe thesis tries to define and explain the rudiments of a 'nonphilosophical'
or 'non-decisional' theory of materialism on the basis of a
theoretical framework provided by the 'non-philosophy' of Francois
Laruelle. Neither anti-philosophical nor anti-materialist in character, non-materialism
tries to construct a rigorously transcendental theory of matter by
using certain instances of philosophical materialism as its source material.
The materialist decision to identify the real with matter is seen to retain a
structural isomorphy with the phenomenological decision to identify the real
with the phenomenon. Both decisions are shown to operate on the basis of a
methodological idealism; materialism on account of its confusion of matter
and concept; phenomenology by virtue of its confusion of phenomenon and
logos. By dissolving the respectively 'materiological' and
'phenomenological' amlphibolies which are the result of the failure to effect a
rigorously transcendental separation between matter and concept on the one
hand; and between phenomenon and logos on the other, non-materialist
theory proposes to mobilise the non-hybrid or non-decisional concepts of a
'matter-without-concept' and of a 'phenomenon-without-logos' in order to
effect a unified but non-unitary theory of phenomenology and materialism.
The result is a materialisation of thinking that operates according to matter's
foreclosure to decision. That is to say, a transcendental theory of the
phenomenon that licenses limitless phenomenological plasticity,
unconstrained by the apparatus of eidetic intuition or any horizon of
apophantic disclosure; yet one which is simultaneously a transcendental
theory of matter, uncontaminated by the bounds of empirical perception and
free of all phenomenological circumscription
Opportunist politicians and the evolution ofelectoral competition
No full textWe study a unidimensional model of spatial competition between two parties with two types of politicians. The office oriented politicians, referred to as “opportunist” politicians, care only about the spoils of the office. The policy oriented politicians, referred to as “militant” politicians have ideological preferences on the policy space. In this framework, we compare a winner-take-all system, where all the spoils go to the winner, to a proportional system, where the spoils of office are split among the two parties proportionally to their share of the vote.We study the existence of short term political equilibria and then, within an evolutionary setup, the dynamics and stability of policies and of party membership decisions.Political competition. Opportunism. Downs.
PUMA Survey 5.3. Insights in societal changes in Austria
No full textFull edition for scientific use. PUMA Surveys consist of separate modules designed and prepared by different principle investigators. This PUMA Survey consists of two modules: MODULE 1 "Trick of the Traits. An experimental study on trait ownership and mediated leader effects", MODULE 2 "An Experimental Assessment of Approval and Evaluative Voting". Fieldwork was conducted by MARKETAGENT. MODULE 1: Trick of the Traits. An experimental study on trait ownership and mediated leader effects (Loes Aalerding, Sophie Lecheler) This study tests, by means of a survey experiment, how leader perceptions are affected by media portrayals of party leaders in terms of their leadership traits, and to what extent partisan stereotypes and trait ownership moderates this relationship. Research has shown that citizens’ subjective party leader perceptions, especially in terms of leadership traits, affect voting behavior (e.g., Bittner, 2011; Aarts, Blais, & Schmitt, 2013). What remains a largely unresolved question, however, is which trait evaluations matter most. The main goal of this study is to test how media messages of party leaders in terms of their leadership traits affects voters’ perception of those party leaders and to what extent trait ownership moderates this relation. The contribution of the study is threefold. First, it takes into account that current political life is highly mediatized by focusing on mediated leader effects. Second, it strengthens the causal claim of (the conditionality) of leader effects by using an experimental research design as opposed to correlational data. Third, it is the first to test the theory of trait ownership in Austria and therefore (completely) outside the two-party context of the US. MODULE 2: An Experimental Assessment of Approval and Evaluative Voting (Philipp Harfst, Jean-Francois Laslier, Damien Bol) In our PUMA module, we ran an online survey experiment in which we asked a representative sample of the Austrian population to cast a vote. We created a ballot to similar to the one of the 2017 election of the National Council. The respondents saw on their screen the main parties and the main candidates of these parties. Then, they had to indicate their preference for one of the parties and for 15 individual candidates within this party. The experimental treatment is the type of preference vote the respondents could cast to express their preference for individual candidates. A third of the respondents (randomly selected) could choose to approve each of the candidates or not [0,1]. This binary system is often called Approval Voting (AV). Another third of the respondents (randomly selected) could give 0, 1, or 2 points to each of the candidates. The last third of the respondents could give a positive, a negative, or no points to each of the candidates [-1,0,1]. These last two systems are two different versions to what is usually referred to as Evaluative Voting (EV). The goal of our research is to study the effect of the type of preference voting on voters’ decisions. The survey was fielded in June 2018 and targeted the population of eligible Austrian voters. The sample size is 700 respondents, and is representative of the Austrian population in terms of gender, age and education. The survey was conducted online, which is the best survey model for this type of study. Unlike telephone interviews, online surveys allow for a visualisation of the ballot, which helps improve the quality of responses. Also, this way of asking for respondents’ vote choice has already been successfully implemented in other contexts (Laslier et al. 2015). <br/
“Enquête sur l’auteur. Entretien avec Pierre Bayard”
No full textInternational audience05/04/2019 “Enquête sur l’auteur. Entretien avec Pierre Bayard” [“Investigation into the Author. Interview with Pierre Bayard”], event for bachelor’s and master’s students in French and comparative literature, Lorraine University
La régulation de la liberté d’expression par les entreprises privées sur les réseaux sociaux
No full textLa régulation de la liberté d’expression par les entreprises privées sur les réseaux sociaux
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