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This paper explores a major road to substantive representation in democracies, by clarifying whether demands of rich and poor citizens are taken up the electoral platforms political parties. Doing so constitutes substantial broadening deepening our understanding – countries, issue-areas years that form empirical basis for judging democracies manifest unequal representation; process key pathway ...

Existing work on party systems typically involves essentially static models and pays little attention to the dynamics of party splits and fusions. Our approach explores these dynamics by setting out a simple model of legislative behavior in a parliament responsible for making and breaking governments. This model abandons the unitary actor assumption about political parties models individual leg...

In this article, we seek to explain when and why political parties pressure their members to vote with the party. We model party cohesion as an endogenous choice of preference alignment by party members. Couched in Krehbiel’s (1996, 1998) pivotal politics model, the formal theory advanced here shows party cohesion to be related to the initial preference alignment of party members, the divergenc...

Today’s applications are highly mobile; we download software from the Internet, machine executable code arrives attached to electronic mail, and Java applets increase the functionality and appearance of web pages. This movement has stirred a great deal of research in the area of mobile code security. The fact remains that a newly arrived program to a local host has the potential to inflict sign...

This paper provides details on how to program an SRC-6 reconfigurable computer [1] using MathWorks Simulink® [2] with Xilinx System GeneratorTM for DSP [3] and Xilinx Blockset [4]. SRC-6 is programmed in SRC’s MAP C programming language [5]. Code development on the SRC-6 platform closely resembles code development on a conventional microprocessor-based system, except for explicit code to suppor...

The Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) project focuses on handling ground-based observational data of the upper atmosphere. To this end, the project members have been developing a data analysis software package which is based on Interactive Data Language (IDL). Filling the spatial gaps in observational data requires the use of numerical models. In this paper,...