This study investigated public acceptance of several specific government interventions to
lower sugar intake in the population, using data from the first wave (2017) of a large survey …

Nowadays, political campaigns combine traditional media channels with social media
platforms, opening new and promising possibilities for parties and candidates looking for …

Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural
groups to differ markedly in the same environment. Put differently, cultural evolutionary …

The validity of majority rule in an election with but two candidates—and so also of Condorcet
consistency—is challenged. Axioms based on evaluating candidates—paralleling those of …

This paper investigates the mental health penalty for women after childbirth in Switzerland.
Leveraging insurance data, we employ a staggered difference-in-difference research …

Voting advice applications are web-based tools designed to guide citizens toward the
parties and candidates close to their political preferences. However, they require the …

We address the problem of predicting aggregate vote outcomes (eg, national) from partial
outcomes (eg, regional) that are revealed sequentially. We combine matrix factorization …

We address the problem of discovering contexts that lead well-distinguished collections of
individuals to change their pairwise agreement wrt their usual one. For instance, in the …

Majority judgment (MJ) and approval voting (AV) are compared in theory and practice.
Criticisms of MJ and claims that AV is superior are refuted. The two primary criticisms have …

Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience
of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and …