Courts and Legislatures as Arbitrators of Social Change

Between Legitimacy and Control: Challenges and Recusals of Arbitrators and Judges in International Courts and Tribunals

Legislatures as spin glasses

I present a method for partitioning legislatures into subsets of legislators that vote in a similar fashion by modelling legislatures as Potts spin glasses. I apply the method to find partitions of the UK House of Commons and the US Senate. I explain how the method is related to methods designed to find partitions of networks into densely connected subsets of nodes.

faculty of psychology and social sciences group of anthropology master thesis in major of anthropology

چکیده پایان نامه (شامل خلاصه، اهداف، روش های اجرا و نتایج به دست آمده): کار جمع آوری گو یش های محلی در سال های اخیر شتاب امیدوار کننده ای به خود گرفته است. شاید از بارزترین اهداف جمع آوری گویش های مختلف، ثبت و ضبط آن، جلوگیری از نابودی و مهمتر از همه حل مشکلات دستوری زبان رسمی باشد. دقت در فرآیند های زبانی گویش های محلی نوع ارتباط مردم نواحی مختلف با پیرامون نشان را به ما نشان خواهد داد. از س...

Legislatures, Courts, and Statutory Control of the Bureaucracy across the U.S. States∗

How do state legislatures use statutory language to control policy implementation by state agencies? In this paper, I consider the extent to which the decision of how best to control bureaucratic policymaking is strategic in regards to the broader political context in which a legislature finds itself. Specifically, I examine the extent to which legislatures anticipate the likely actions of stat...

sociopolitical change as a social factor of language change

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