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Filtering methods are powerful tools to estimate the hidden state of a statespace model from observations available in real time. However, they are known to be highly sensitive to the presence of small misspecifications of the underlying model and to outliers in the observation process. In this paper, we show that the methodology of robust statistics can be adapted to sequential...

Does the rejection of pure proceduralism show that we should adopt Brettschneider's value theory of democracy? The answer, this paper suggests, is ‘no'. There are a potentially infinite number of incompatible ways to understand democracy, of which the value theory is, at best, only one. The paper illustrates and substantiates its claims by looking at what the secret ballot...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the EU has increasingly been criticized for its democratic deficit, which is intrinsically linked to the absence of a public sphere at the European level. Whereas scholars consider the emergence of such a public sphere a necessary requirement for democratizing the EU, they disagree on the conceptualization and normative requirements for a meaningful...

Publié au début des années 1950, La Crise de la culture est un ouvrage majeur de la philosophe allemande. Au-delà des "enjeux de l'usure de la tradition" à laquelle elle fait ici référence, son interrogation sur la société de masse théorisée depuis l'analyse du totalitarisme trouve un écho particulièrement fort dans sa critique de la culture de masse assimilée à...

When predicting the next outcome in a sequence of events, people often appear to expect streaky patterns, such as that sport players can develop a “hot hand,” even if the sequence is actually random. This expectation, referred to as positive recency, can be adaptive in environments characterized by resources that are clustered across space or time (e.g., expecting to find multiple...

This study report summarizes the results of the first systematic survey of chief strategy officers (CSOs) in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, a research project jointly conducted by the University of St. Gallen and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. The study aims at deepening our understanding of the CSO's roles, background, working relationships, strategic decision-making,...