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We consider the problem of implementing randomized wait-free consensus from max registers under the assumption of an oblivious adversary. We show that max registers solve m-valued consensus for arbitrary m in expected O(log^* n) steps per process, beating the Omega(log m/log log m) lower bound for ordinary registers when m is large and the best previously known O(log log n) upper bound when m is small. A simple max-register implementation based on double-collect snapshots translates this result into an O(n log n) expected step implementation of m-valued consensus from n single-writer registers, improving on the best previously-known bound of O(n log^2 n) for single-writer registers.
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Lobbying in the Shadows: A Comparative Analysis of Government Lobbyist Registers
We identified 28 countries with online lobbyist registers, all from upper or upper-middle income countries. No country fulfilled all 50 indicators in the FOCAL. The category of “scope” had the highest scores across countries, whereas the “revolving door” and “financial” categories had the lowest scores. We found evidence of lobbying by Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, or one of their subsidiaries in 14 of the 28 countries with online lobbyist registers.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2147334
- PAR ID:
- 10649633
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Milbank Quarterly
- Volume:
- 103
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 0887-378X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 857 to 882
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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