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Poor decisions and selfish behaviors give rise to seemingly intractable global problems, such as the lack of transparency in democratic processes, the spread of conspiracy theories, and the rise in greenhouse gas emissions. However, people are more predict ...
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We study the phenomenon of intransitivity in models of dice and voting. First, we follow a recent thread of research for n-sided dice with pairwise ordering induced by the probability, relative to 1/2, that a throw from one die is higher than the other. We ...
2020The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations
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 geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a tr ...
2018Ecologie politique des votations fédérales sur l’environnement en Suisse, 1981-2010
Political cohesion is a key form of collective socio-ethical manifestations of solidarity and cooperation in groups. The disappearance of traditional political lines among voters and in the political elite destabilizes political institutions. Research find ...
Métis Presses2017Moral Matrices
In this dissertation, I address the political and moral geography of Swiss federal participatory votes for the period between 1981 and 2014 to re-investigate some of the fundamental questions left open in urban sciences: how and why socio-ethical, moral an ...
EPFL2017Updated emissions scenarios without measures, 1990-2035
Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle
The goal of this study is to estimate the net impact of all policies and measures implemented in the context of the Swiss energy and climate policies on CO2 emissions from combustion processes between 1990 and 2035. The study provides a projection of CO2 e ...
EPFL, Laboratoire LEURE2017