We analyze in detail a leader election protocol that we call the Swedish leader election protocol. The goal is to select one among n > 0 players, by proceeding through a number of rounds. If there is only one player remaining, the protocol stops and the player is declared the leader. Otherwise, all remaining players flip a biased coin; with probability q the player survives to the next round, w...

Research on work-family conflict has focused on individuals, and little is known as to how spouses perceive each other’s work-family conflict and how inaccuracies of such perceptions relate to relationship quality. Using a national sample of dual-earner married and cohabiting couples (N = 545), we found that over half of spouses overestimate or underestimate each other’s work-family conflict. H...

ESTABLISHING PRESENCE AS A MECHANISM OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: THE EXAMPLE SZYMON HOŁOWNIA The article touches upon building the political leadership of Szymon Hołownia, which is analysed in light interactive theory emergence leaders. issues complementarity needs leader and his voters their mental matching are indicated, including research within framework Congruency Model Political Preference (...

A political earthquake struck Venezuela when Hugo Chávez was elected president in December 1998. Chávez, a former lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan army, launched his political career in 1992 by leading a bloody military revolt against a democratic regime that had long been considered among the most stable in Latin America. The coup attempt failed, landing Chávez in prison, but it catapulted...

BACKGROUND The history of governmental responses to the accumulation of scientific evidence about the harms of secondhand smoke (SHS) presents an intriguing case study of incremental public health policy development. Australia has long been considered a world-leader in progressive tobacco control policies, but in the last decade has fallen behind other jurisdictions in introducing SHS legislati...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of process political communication in conditions networkization public space. sign-symbolic level considered on example content-semantic filling image a regional leader. purpose this research analyze content leader and identify presence or absence manifestation effect networking it. objectives study are goals, principles their implementation features with ot...