This research scrutinizes the representation of political conflict within contemporary Indonesian history textbooks. The question is about how textbooks present conflicts in historiography for younger generation frame interests, nation-building, and demand reconciliation transformation. Discourse Historical Analysis was used as method, particularly investigating from analysis nomination, predic...

We discuss the theory of gerrymandering-proof voting rules. Our approach is axiomatic. We show that, for votes over a binary set of alternatives, any rule that is unanimous, anonymous, and gerrymandering-proof must decide a social outcome as a function of the proportions of agents voting for each alternative, and must either be independent of this proportion, or be in one-to-one correspondence ...

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 representative system of the young Mexican democracy is systematically situated in a vulnerable position by several facts: the lack of transparency in the exercise of public administration, the embezzlement of state and municipal finances, the use representative positions in trenches defending particular interests and use of public resources for private purposes. Corruption, impunity, poor ...

Title of dissertation: PUBLIC OPINION, POLITICAL REPRESENTATION, AND DEMOCRATIC CHOICE Michael J. Zenz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Assistant Professor Eric Pacuit Professor Christopher W. Morris Department of Philosophy In this dissertation I argue that political representatives have duties to be responsive to public opinion in their policy decisions. The existence of ...

This article shows that for a single-vote electoral system for a representative body to treat all voters and all parties equally, it must produce results essentially identical to list proportional representation (PR). Democratic theory has often been agnostic concerning representative institutions. Different institutions have been compared in terms of behavioral outcomes rather than axiomatic p...

It is well-documented the political and structural barriers to female descriptive representation in politics and legislatures (see Lovenduski, 2005). Women remain under-represented at every level of government in the UK (Home Office, 2011). This paper adds to the body of research by exploring the political representation of women at local government level. In particular the locus of Scottish lo...

This article aims to show the anthropological and political relevance of logos or rationality as understood by Eric Voegelin. The paper is divided into two parts, first elaborates what Voegelin considers be discovery Plato Aristotle, which represents a historical at same time epistemological phenomenon self-illumination human psyche. Through concept logos, soul discovered and, with it reality c...