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most citedMaximal modularity and the optimal size of parliaments

10 citations · 23 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CY2022

Graphie: A network-based visual interface for UK's Primary Legislation

Evan Tzanis, Pierpaolo Vivo, Yanik-Pascal Förster +2

We present Graphie, a novel navigational interface to visualize Acts and Bills included in the UK's legislation digital repository [legislation.gov.uk]. Graphie provides a network…

physics.soc-ph2022

Rationalizing systematic discrepancies between election outcomes and opinion polls

Luca Gamberi, Pierpaolo Vivo, Yanik-Pascal Förster +2

The Bradley effect concerns the discrepancy between opinion polls and actual election outcomes that emerges when candidates do not exhibit ideological, sexual or racial mainstream…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 4 cited

Information retrieval and structural complexity of legal trees

Yanik-Pascal Förster, Alessia Annibale, Luca Gamberi +2

We introduce a model for the retrieval of information hidden in legal texts. These are typically organised in a hierarchical (tree) structure, which a reader interested in a given…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 9 cited

Exact and Approximate Mean First Passage Times on Trees and other Necklace Structures: a Local Equilibrium Approach

Yanik-Pascal Förster, Luca Gamberi, Evan Tzanis +2

In this work we propose a novel method to calculate mean first-passage times (MFPTs) for random walks on graphs, based on a dimensionality reduction technique for Markov State Mode…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 10 cited

Maximal modularity and the optimal size of parliaments

Luca Gamberi, Yanik-Pascal Förster, Evan Tzanis +2

An important question in representative democracies is how to determine the optimal parliament size of a given country. According to an old conjecture, known as the cubic root law,…