Some thoughts about referendums, representative democracy, and separation of powers

basis and thoughts of powers separation plan

according to the reason and philosophy of powers separation, scientists and experts in public law mention it as a guaranty for security and prevention against despotism. therefore the principle of the powers separation is one of the most vital discussions about natural rights of nations which are due to controlling political power and preventing power centralization. in islamic republic of iran...

The Separation of Powers and Representative Government

C urrent controversies over presidential power suggest. that significant separation of powers depends on the existence of some effective counterweight to the executive ruler, which in turn presupposes a disposition to restrain the ruler that does not come from the ruler himself. One might conclude that schemes for separation of powers grow out of either a fundamental opposition to ruling or at ...

Some thoughts about classification

The paper contains some general remarks on the high art of data analysis, some philosophical thoughts about classification, a partial review of outliers and robustness from the point of view of applications, including a discussion of the problem of model choice, and a review of several aspects of robust estimation of covariance matrices, including the pragmatic choice of a weight function based...

Some Thoughts about Commitment Protocols

From the seminal paper by Singh [1], commitments protocols have been raising a lot of attention. The key feature of commitment protocols is their declarative nature, which allows specifying them in a way which abstracts away from any reference to the actual behaviour of the agents. By doing so, commitment protocols respect the autonomy of agents. After more than ten years from the introduction ...

Some thoughts about schizoid dynamics.