COMPARED TO SOME OF ITS EAST ASIAN NEIGHBORS, SUCH AS SOUTH Korea and Japan, Taiwan’s party system has been much more stable over the last two decades. Remarkably, the same two parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), dominate the party scene in 2012 as in 1986. The year 1986 was particularly significant as it was the first election in which the KMT faced a genuine ...

Attitudes about political mavericks (politicians who cross party lines to ‘‘vote their conscience”) depend on whether people construe them in general terms or at the level of specific policy proposals. Three studies examined this hypothesis. In Study 1, participants expressed more positive views of political mavericks described generally than when prompted to consider a maverick of their own po...

Eduardo Liz , Elena Trofimchuk b and Sergei Trofimchuk c aDepartamento de Matemática Aplicada II, E.T.S.I.Telecomunicación, Universidad de Vigo, Campus Marcosende, 36200 Vigo, Spain E-mail: [email protected] bDepartment of Mathematics, National Technical University “KPI”, Kiev, Ukraine E-mail: [email protected] cDepartamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casil...

Party brands are central to theories of Congressional action. While previous work assumes that a party’s brand—its long run reputation—is a direct consequence of the content of legislation, in this presentation I show how partisans from both parties use public statements to craft their own party’s reputation and to undermine their opponents party. The incentive to craft and destroy brands varie...

under article 267 of the civil code, a person who pays the debt of the other without his permission cannot recover the amount paid as the payment of debt in this situation appears to be gratuitous. nevertheless, in different codes, the legislator has permitted a third party to pay the debts of the others in some situations.. by carefully examining these cases, it can be said that anytime the th...

Attention is drawn to a particularly dangerous party activity. Balloons filled with lighter gas so as to float are used for party decorations. A case of hand burn caused by accidentally lighting such a balloon with a cigarette is reported. The method is strongly advised against, it is a much better idea to use helium for such purposes.