This chapter tests several prediction of the Gerrymandering model simulation with respect to the effect of redistricting institutions on four different measures of voter welfare. Empirical voter utility is estimated by generating ideology scores for respondents to the 2008 CCES survey on a common scale with members of the 110 Congress, and then rescaling these estimates to match DW-NOMINATE. Th...

Objective. We investigate the ideological orientations of U.S. statehouse journalists, asking whether reporters hold similar political ideologies to their audiences, and under what conditions reporter ideology diverges from audience ideology. Methods. We use an original survey of statehouse journalists, and employ both traditional OLS regressions and a heteroskedastic regression. Results. We fi...

this article is an attempt to explore the subject of divorcee in narrative and visual content of iranian cinema. therefore, by applying constructionist approach in representation theory of stuart hall as the main theoretical framework and using roland barthes’ structural analysis of narrative and john fiske’s semiotic analysis in three levels of reality codes, representation and ideology, ester...

This short note is devoted to the representative dynamics, a new concept, which realizes a link between the theory of controlled systems and representation theory, and the dynamical inverse problem of representation theory for controlled systems. Thus, it may be considered as a development of ideas of the earlier article [1], which follows the general ideology of inverse problems of representat...