How does presidentialism affect democratic representation, both in theory and in practice? In this paper, part of a larger book project, we build on our previous research (Samuels and Shugart 2003), which argued that all else equal, presidentialism impedes representation based on prospective government “mandates.” Inspired by and building on research on Latin America by Susan Stokes (2001), her...

Its 11 Member Countries include Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam. It embodies 8 Associate Member Countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Spain; and three Affiliate Members, namely the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), the Un...

Clergy continue to have a central role in many communities and the utility of their involvement in the care of people with mental health problems is increasingly argued. However, there has been a failure to examine the form and parameters of partnerships between faith-based organisations and psychiatry.

No Clergy is an interactive music performance/installation in which the audience is able to shape the ongoing music. In it, members of a small acoustic ensemble read music notation from computer screens. As each page refreshes, the notation is altered and shaped by both stochastic transformations of earlier music with the same performance and audience feedback, collected via standard CGI forms.