Electronic voting is gaining momentum and we can expect several countries in the near future developing the digital infrastructure and legal codes to realize a secure and automated ballot system. The goal of this paper is to claim that once the digital infrastructure for our current voting systems is in place we can envisage new ways to realize political representation and accountability using ...

The issue of sovereignty has never been resolved in Scotland. 1998 Scotland Act, creating the Scottish Parliament affirmed that Westminster is sovereign, but this disputed. In practice, was left largely abeyance as seen an outdated concept. independence referendum 2014 and UK Brexit 2016 both brought back question stark terms. Analysis data from British Election Study 2019 with regard to (a) ri...

Are European Parliament (EP) elections used to pass judgement on the legislative behaviour of parties serving in EP? Do Europeans give a bonus EP political whose members were highly active during term? The article will focus role activities eighth term (2014–2019) informing 2019 vote choice. analysis combines Election Studies (EESs) Voter Study data with original data, as well electoral systems...

This study discusses the form of political participation women in Tomohon City. The presence Indonesian stage is an important discourse on progress democracy Indonesia. However, there are still many obstacles among to appear contestation, especially contestation. research shows that trend City continues increase. can be seen from female mayoral candidates who ran contestation 2019 Elections, na...

Statistical analysis of parliamentary roll call votes is an important topic in political science as it reveals ideological positions of members of parliament and factions. However, these positions depend on the issues debated and voted upon as well as on attitude towards the governing coalition. Therefore, analysis of carefully selected sets of roll call votes provides deeper knowledge about me...

We present a database of parliamentary debates that contains the complete record of parliamentary speeches from Dáil Éireann, the lower house and principal chamber of the Irish parliament, from 1919 to 2013. In addition, the database contains background information on all TDs (Teachta Dála, members of parliament), such as their party affiliations, constituencies and office positions. The curren...

We address the enumeration and the leader election problems over partially anonymous and multi-hop broadcast networks. We consider an asynchronous communication model where each process broadcasts a message and all its neighbours receive this message after arbitrary and unpredictable time. In this paper, we present necessary conditions that must be satisfied by any graph to solve these problems...

In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway of what came to be known as the London Underground successfully opened as the world’s first subway. Its high ridership spawned interest in additional links. Entrepreneurs secured funding and then proposed new lines to Parliament for approval, though only a portion were actually approved. While putative rail barons may have conducted some economic analysis, the ...