Do close voters make politicians better? Information blurring in a political agency model16 April 2012
Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 1909-191326 March 2012This paper presents evidence on the consequences of the 1912 introduction of "quasiuniversal" male...
Big Data and the Web21 March 2012The seminar will introduce the problem of large scale Web mining by using Data Intensive Scalable...
Logical Foundations of Session Types20 March 2012We overview a type theoretic foundation for distributed processes, based on a Curry-Howard logical...
Strategic campaigning with vote and turnout buying19 March 2012We model a patron-client relationship where the incumbent may either persuade or mobilize voters;...
The comparative "macro-history" of the Axis dictatorships, 1922-1945: objectives, methodology and practical difficulties15 March 2012
Preference reasoning and computational social choice12 March 2012Preferences are ubiquitous in everyday decision making. They should therefore be an essential...