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An RSS feed with the latest discussion papers published by the CFPM

Discussion Papers

  • New paper published in "Government and Opposition" (online, open access) · 23 September 2022
  • New Comment: The Poverty of Sugestivism - the dangers of "suggests that" modelling · 1 March 2022
  • New CfPM Report: An Evidence-Driven Model of Voting and Party Competition · 18 October 2021
  • New CfPM report: The Large-Scale, Systematic and Iterated Comparison of Agent-Based Policy Models · 31 August 2021
  • New CfPM report: Open, Contingent, Adaptive and Reactive Resilience – using ABM and other tools to facilitate our collective survival in an uncertain world · 31 August 2021

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An RSS feed with the latest news from the CFPM

News and Events

  • New Paper: The practice and rhetoric of prediction – the case in agent-based modelling · 31 October 2022
  • Rigour for Agent-Based modelling · 16 September 2022
  • Workshop on Artificial utopias (Agent-based models of utopian societies) · 10 September 2022
  • Special Issue on Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence · 23 August 2022
  • "Populism and Civic Engagement" (PaCE) project ended, results available · 28 May 2022

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News

"Populism and Civic Engagement" (PaCE) project ended, results available

All the results of the PaCE project are now available…

…on the website (popandce.eu), including:

  • The 16 Policy recommendations
  • An updated report on the underlying risk factors for democratic quality
  • A cutting-edge Agent-Based Simulation of Voter&Party behaviour
  • The comparative data on European parties
  • The ML-driven PaCE issue-tracking dashboard
  • I, the People! – a comic to educate, and provoke classroom discussion, by Takis Pappas and Alecos Papadatos
  • Outcomes from the 8 Democracy Labs run around Europe
  • A set of infographics explaining key issues
  • Recommendations for new forms of public participation, espcially online forms
  • A new synthesised model of the causes of populism
  • A pack of educational materials for use in schools

CFPM tweets

  • RT @TSEinfo: The next Toulouse Summer School in quantitative social sciences will take place from May 30 to June 23. It will focus on the e… Jan 10, 04:34 pm
  • RT @JASSSJournal: The new year marks the return of our book reviews! Here, @BruceEdmonds reviews "Escape from Model Land" a recent book by… Jan 4, 07:39 pm
  • @furtadobb @GaryPolhill @ESSA_at_work @JASSSJournal @JustaNormalDino @BruceEdmonds hmmm not sure I can think of any… https://t.co/Mje1lTJwJl Nov 23, 04:40 pm
  • RT @BruceEdmonds: My talk on thursday will also be le availabonline using MS teams: https://t.co/tE2Ymd2Y0q #voting #abm #socialinfluence #… Nov 1, 01:21 pm
  • RT @BruceEdmonds: new paper: The practice and rhetoric of prediction – the case in agent-based modelling. International Journal of Social #… Oct 31, 12:41 pm

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