INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

The present paper is a literary stylistic study that illustrates in George Orwell's novel Animal Farm the imagery, allegorical meaning, linguistic exploitation or manipulation of words. One most traditional features and an integral part its imagery Orwell 's sophisticated sensitivity to political abuse language Inwardly, this allegory relates power struggle, usurpation, coercion, manipulation, ...

Gulliver's Travels is written by Seventeenth century Anglo-Irish prose writer Jonathan Swift. swift employed literary device called invective, satire in his writing to cure social malaise of seventeenth society. travels are a political allegory which society highlighted many aspects. There character Lemuel Gulliver enterprising and adventurous underwent voyage Lilliput. The author gives some ac...

Relational languages such as Ruby are used to derive hardware circuits from abstract speci cations of their behaviour. Much reasoning is done informally in Ruby using pictorial representations of relational terms. We formalise this use of pictures in circuit design. We show that pictures naturally form a unitary pretabular allegory. Homomorphisms of pictures correspond to adding new wires or ci...