Editorial: Talking politics

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Inaugural Editorial: Politics and Governance

We are proud to welcome our readers, contributors and reviewers to this inaugural issue of Politics and Governance, published by Librello Publishing House— a peer reviewed, open-source journal dedicated to the study of politics in the national, regional and global realm, and the modes and methods of governance in all its manifestations. We are thrilled to be so ably supported by an editorial bo...

GLOBAL COMPREHENSIVE MODELS IN POLITICS AND POLICYMAKING Editorial Essay

In this issue of Climatic Change, Ron Brunner argues that the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has to its peril overemphasized the potential policy significance of comprehensive, predictive models [1 ]. Brunner thinks that although comprehensive models are properly a central goal of global change science, they cannot produce effective global change policy. He argues for a 'modest alte...

D-Theory: Talking about Talking about Trees

Linguists, including computational linguists, have always been fond of talking about trees. In this paper, we outline a theory of linguistic structure which talks about talking about trees; we call this theory Description theory (D-theory). While important issues must be resolved before a complete picture of D-theory emerges (and also before we can build programs which utilize it), we believe t...

Editorial Guidance Notes Britain in Europe and Europe in Britain: the Europeanisation of British Politics? Introduction