Designing Democratic Constitutions: The Search for Optimality

Constitutions and Democratic Breakdowns

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Constitute: The world's constitutions to read, search, and compare

A constitution forms the foundation of the virtually all governments around the world. A surprisingly large number of constitutions change each year. On average, 30 constitutions are amended and 5 are completely replaced each year. Despite this level of change, no country changes its constitution often enough for the country’s officials to gain much experience as constitutional drafters. In ord...

XTreeNet: democratic community search

We describe XTreeNet, a distributed query dissemination engine which facilitates democratization of publishing and efficient data search among members of online communities with powerful full-text queries. This demonstration shows XTreeNet in full action. XTreeNet serves as a proof of concept for democratic community search by proposing a distributed novel infrastructure in which data resides o...

Designing experiments for robust-optimization problems: the Vs-optimality criterion

We suggest an experimentation strategy for the robust design of empirically fitted models. The suggested approach is used to design experiments that minimize the variance of the optimal robust solution. The new design-of-experiment optimality criterion, termed Vs-optimal, prioritizes the estimation of a model’s coefficients, such that the variance of the optimal solution is minimized by the per...