Browsing by Author "NUI Galway Millennium Fund"

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    • Aggregating partitions 

      Duddy, Conal; Piggins, Ashley (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)
      Consider the following social choice problem. A group of individuals seek to partition a finite set X into two subsets. The individuals may disagree over the partition and an aggregation rule is applied to determine a ...

    • A model of deliberative and aggregative democracy 

      Perote Pena, Juan; Piggins, Ashley (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)
      We present a model of collective decision making in which voting and deliberation are treated simultaneously. Political theorists argue that public discussion can lead individuals to change their preferences. This aspect ...

    • Temporal structure and inner psychophysics: A glimpse of equilibrium? 

      Elliott, Mark (The International Society for Psychophysics, 2010-10)
      It has been suggested that the synchronization of spatially distributed neural assemblies at fast frequencies in the range 20 - 80 Hz (the ¿gamma¿ band) is instrumental for binding the separate feature-elements of a figure ...

    • U.S. Presidential Elections and the referendum paradox 

      Piggins, Ashley (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)
      In the United States, the president is elected by the Electoral College (EC) and not directly by individual voters. This can give rise to a so-called 'referendum paradox' in which one candidate receives more popular votes ...