When electronic musicians compose collaboratively, they typically use their own single-user musical controllers. It may, therefore, be useful to develop novel controllers that support collaborative workflows and democratic principles. After describing the design principles for developing such controllers, we present TOUCHtr4ck, a prototype multitouch system designed to facilitate such democrati...

This study examines the issue of standards of freedom of the press in democracy. Freedom of the press should benefit citizens in democratic societies, yet historically, the press has mainly served dominant group interests that are based on capital and power. The problem of serving special interests and collusion exists globally. It examines how well the principle of press freedom operates in de...

While constitutions regulate political authority within a state, there is much we do not know about the interaction between political conditions and constitutional texts. Much of the literature relies upon hand-coded databases of constitutional texts. However, this approach raises both methodological and theoretical concerns. Advances in natural language processing, particularly latent text ana...

This paper argues that e-Government holds much potential for transforming government activity, and, in respect to representative government specifically, it focuses upon the development of e-Participation and e-Democracy to enhance the responsiveness of the relationship between government and the governed. Recent upheavals across the Middle East the 'Arab Spring' have highlighted the importance...

this paper seeks to answer the question whether the constitutional revolution of 1905-1911 in iran was a democratic revolution or social revolution? this discussion has been explained from the view point of the political sociology, relying on the moore's theory. studies indicate that the constitutional revolution in all periods has had the features of democratic revolution for the followin...

This paper describes a new breed of academic journals that use statistical machine learning techniques to make them more democratic. In particular, not only can anyone submit an article, but anyone can also become a reviewer. Machine learning is used to decide which reviewers accurately represent the views of the journal's readers and thus deserve to have their opinions carry more weight. The p...

The author would like to thank Keith LaFoe for his excellent assistance in the elaboration of the figures in this paper. 2 Introduction In recent years, numerous scholarly analysts have sought to determine the trajectory of the third democratic wave in Latin America. 1 The onset of the third wave in the region is widely dated as 1978, when civilian leadership was elected in the Dominican Republ...

Democratic systems arise in the context of greedy approximations in Banach spaces. The greedy algorithm is an important method in numerical mathematics; for more details see the early work of V. N. Temlyakov [16], [17]. At the same time it also points to some interesting issues in functional analysis. In particular, we would like to emphasize the basic theorem of S. V. Konyagin and V. N. Temlya...

across Eastern Europe, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, scholars have begun to explore how democratic changes affect women. Like other analyses of gender and the state (Brush 2003; Eisenstein 1988; MacKinnon 1989; Orloff 1996; Pateman 1988), these studies examine how states create and govern gender relations among their citizens through institutions, laws, and legal discourses (Jaquette a...