Even after I left the field of rational choice theory ofpoliticsand became an evolutionary psychologist, the paradox of voter turnout (and my own theoretical resolution of the paradox) continued to haunt me. Why do people act like their vote made a difference in the past electoral outcome? Fr...
If you don’t do something different or you just offer the same thing that people can find elsewhere, they’re going to go elsewhere. If people could have found, if I was making plain brown wing tips like you can find in every men’s shoe store, people would go elsewhere because they...
Independent candidate Venancio Mondlane, who was second behind Chapo in the official results,has led criticism of the vote. He called for a national strike and for people to stay at home in the days after the election in protest at the alleged tampering. ...
To vote on the best name, which you can do through Jan. 1, 2025. "At a time when there's so much division and fear and mistrust, we're excited to create something that reminds us of what we share: the sky," Nasser said. "I imagine people from all different cultures debating t...
reported bullying and intimidation from management. When workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama held a vote in April on whether to unionize, the company interfered so extensively that the USNational Labor Relations Board ordereda do-over. (In a separate settlement,the agency saidAmazon must al...
Dec 24, 2024 7:53 AM in response to Kurtosis12 My family has it, they live in the same country as me. Reply This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers. Go...
When did South Africa become a rainbow nation? After the end of Apartheid in 1994, when all people of South Africa could finally vote, Desmond Tutu first used the phrase Rainbow Nation about South Africa. President Nelson Mandela then used the phrase a month or so later and the idea unfurle...
Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress party, was then elected as the country's first Black head of state during the 1994 general election, the first in which South African citizens of all races were allowed to vote. The African National Congress has been the ru...
With Min Aung Hlaing set to retire when he turns 65 in June, experts say he had his sights set on the presidency. To do that, the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) would need do well in the November elections. But Suu Kyi’s NLD won 83% of the vote,...
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