In the context of N-party composite systems some considerations about entanglement magnitudes defined on the set of their states are made. A minimal set of necessary and sufficient requirements any such magnitude has to fulfil if it is to be non-increasing under the local action of the N classically communicating parties is presented. With the help of some magnitudes satisfying these conditions...

We describe a process for automatically detecting decision-making sub-dialogues in transcripts of multi-party, human-human meetings. Extending our previous work on action item identification, we propose a structured approach that takes into account the different roles utterances play in the decisionmaking process. We show that this structured approach outperforms the accuracy achieved by existi...

the legislator has not an explicit view about revision to judgments based on definitive oath. this point has caused disagreement between judges and lawyers. such disagreement may be entitled the losing party to petition in revision court in one case and deprive other losing party from it in similar case. in addition, the lawyers doubt in basis of rule in article 369 of civil procedure code base...

the principle of party-disposition (or what is called “le principe dispositif” in the french law) is one of the guiding principles for civil trial. according to this principle, the civil proceeding is regarded as the parties’s thing, so they can make any disposition on their proceeding, inter alia they are be able to commence and terminate it, determine the matters of fact and finally judge is ...

I study the strategic incentives to coordinate votes in an assembly. Coalitions form voting blocs, acting as single players and affecting the policy outcome. In an assembly with two exogenous parties I show how the incentives to accept party discipline depend on the types of the agents, the sizes of the parties, and the rules the blocs use to aggregate preferences. In a game of fully endogenous...

This article investigates a recognizable embodied practice for displaying dissent: the “eye roll,” whereby eyes are rolled up or sideways in their sockets as response to something said done. On corpus of videoed interaction, it shows that: (a) eye roll may be only most salient—visible—element constellation practices embodying dissent; and (b) can quite specific its selection recipients used pur...

Party membership seems to lose relevance for political careers in many established democracies. Increasing numbers of parties are recruiting non-members as candidates. Yet, what the implications a lack long-term party cohesion? In this paper, I argue that pre-parliamentary is fact crucial cohesion. Using data from Comparative Candidate Survey and voting behavior ca. 2,000 MPs German Bundestag o...