The first European elections in the Union of 25 were held on 10-13 June 2004. As a result, the European Parliament has become the world’s largest democratically-elected parliamentary chamber, having grown from 198 members before the first direct elections in 1979 to the present total of 732, bringing together representatives of over 100 different political parties from across a continent. The f...

The recurrent neural network capable to provide the Boolean factor analysis of the binary data sets of high dimension and complexity is applied to discovery of voting patterns in the Russian parliament. The new method of sequential factor extraction based on the Lyapunov function is discussed in deep. Efficiency of the new method is shown on simulated data and on real data from Russian parliame...

women’s political representation has been for decades ahead of women’s rights movement. however, women presence in politics is not only limited to women political participation but their position in party politics as well. this paper aims to analyze the role of parties in empowering women at the uk parliament and tries to contribute towards the existing literature through presenting an interdis...

Abstract This work explores the ways that federalism exacerbates gender inequality among women by explaining adoption of domestic violence laws across different states in context policy diffusion. Using an original dataset firearm law (DVFL) enactments all 50 United States from 1990 to 2017, we analyze circumstances under which will adopt these laws. a set political and demographic indicators a...

Highly pernicious events can result in a variety of severe adult psychiatric manifestations, including pedophilia in select individuals with a history of prior "at-risk factors." Influences such as social isolation can either increase or decrease the outcome. This article reviews some of the other sequential developmental factors that might contribute to sexual compulsivity in such biographies,...