This paper tells the story of how the settlement of Huaycán in Lima (Peru) came into existence and how, from the outset, when the land invasion which was to form the settlement was first organized, the organizers sought to achieve a democratic, self-managed community. The author, who was one of the community leaders involved in the formation and development of Huaycán, also describes the comple...

Early research led scholars to believe that institutional accountability in Congress is lacking because public evaluations of its collective performance do not affect the reelection of its members. However, a changed partisan environment along with new empirical evidence raises unanswered questions about the effect of congressional performance on incumbents’ electoral outcomes over time. Analys...

The article describes the critical directions of scientific and organizational activity Theodor Mackiw (1918–2011), a well–known Ukrainian historian who worked in conditions foreign (diasporic) historiography. A personal contribution to organization holding publications, congresses, conferences, events devoted study history Ukraine was determined. It determined that one key areas T. Maсkiw his ...

We generate for the first time a time series that allows us to identify the number of duplicate bills in Congresses operating under different rules about the cosponsorship of bills. We show that changes in the coiagressional rules about bill cosponsorship affected the number of duplicate bills in a way fully consistent with a public choice perspective on legislative "credit claiming."

Out of nearly 70,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress from 2001 to 2015, only 2,513 were enacted. We developed a machine learning approach to forecasting the probability that any bill will become law. Starting in 2001 with the 107th Congress, we trained models on data from previous Congresses, predicted all bills in the current Congress, and repeated until the 113th Congress served as the ...

background and objectives: life satisfaction is one of the most important indicators for evaluation of mental health status in general population including university students. in this field, the appropriate tool is necessary. so, this study was carried out in order to assess the reliability and validity of the swls in the students of kashan nursing & midwifery faculty (knmf), kashan, iran, in ...