Political Institutions - Science topic

I sent you a set of research papers. I hope you benefit from them. I will send you other researches.

There are the recent papers on the effectiveness of protests in the US: Omar Wasow's paper "Do protests matter? Evidence from the 1960s Black Insurgency" and the Madestam et al paper, "Do political protests matter? evidence from the tea party movement." Outside the US, I a key work that comes to mind is Mark Beissinger's "Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State."

Cultural and religious factors influence the shape of the political regime of the countries, substantially in terms of honesty and transparency.

Vardan Atoyan, Welcome.

I think some of the key issues are

- availability of big data

- availability of analytic tools that allow data to be used

- ability of think tanks to work virtually with web conferencing world wide and for workers to work remotely

- use of digital platforms to collect stakeholder and public views including public participation in creating and testing solutions

- connected to this greater ability to use international as well as national learning

- increased competition in the space occupied by think tanks means brand value and quality/perceived quality of the agency will be critical to ensuring stakeholders listen

- distrust of experts

- need for visible leadership that is tech savvy but also credible

- need to tailor messaging precisely to the target audience and deliver in the correct medium

- need for leaders at various levels in think tanks that are credible with different audiences and adept with digital and analogue channels

- ability to deliver quick, timely, analysis to meet stakeholder needs

- ability to work in partnership and share platforms with other credible stakeholders

Hi Emmanuel V Murray , thank you for your interesting, I am looking for Funding Resources for investigation in Colombia or in your case a good advice for looking for support in private sector.

Thank you all for your contributions. These help a lot

My research into the Two United Kingdoms of Israel and Judah has given me a deeper understanding of this matter. The Sea Peoples mainly came from Greece, some from Europe proper, Anatolia and Cypress. It was a phenomenon over a century with different episodes-some so-called Sea Peoples fighting as mercenaries alongside the Egyptians and then Lybians. The migration at the time of Ramesses III was made up of Greeks, their families, Anatolians and Sikils (possibly later Sicilian). We know at at roughly the same time Greece became depopulated in some areas.

The Sea Peoples, possibly repulsed by Ramesses III, set up states in present day Lebanon and Northern Israel. One of those small states was Dan, the home of Samson, by the Danuna-probably Greek. The others were the Philistines, who may have wiped out the Canaanites when they arrived (exodus and Joshua perhaps?)

I think the EP's transparency unit have published them here https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/2813/response/9923/attach/4/CV%207th%20legislative%20term.pdf as part of a response to a broader query (https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/cvs_of_meps_7th_legislature?unfold=1)

Hello,

Open Data movement is related with e-government now that many governments are adopting such behavior. Check in this African Open data portal: https://africaopendata.org/

Maybe you will find some useful information for your work. E.g. you can check the countries publishing their data in this portal.

Best regards

You can freely download geographic information (shape files etc.) of German Bundestag constituencies here:

For the UK, a complete data set with administrative/electoral boundaries is available here:

To find geographic data sets for other countries, I suggest you find out how the administrative unit that you are interested in is called in its native language and then use that name as search term, possibly in conjuction with the term shapefile. For example, for French legislative constituencies try

circonscriptions legislatives shapefile

Nenad, It may be useful to look at at the following:

Maybe it is useful to look also at the literature on effectiveness (of law), in addition to or instead of efficiency. My article 'The Effectiveness of European Community Law:  Institutions, Processes, Tools and Techniques', Modern Law Review, 1993 (!) might be helpful, also for the footnotes. Since then, there is of course a lot of  other published work.

Francis

Dear Gajanan Salunkhe

pls check the link.

Dear Michał,

In our publication crossing trails in the marshed we have explored and applied the concept of path-dependence to analys the evolution of policies considering the Danube Delta in Romania. The concept is further developed in the conceptual framework Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT) (see for an overview the publication An overview of EGTs Main Concepts). In EGT we place path dependencies in a configuration with interdependencies and goal-dependencies. We argue that studying this configuration is useful for analysing and explaining the evoluation of governance, particular policy fields or instruments. The methodology we recommend is path-mapping. Please let me know if you like to get some more information. 

Dear Nicola,

yes, have a loot at this report of UNDP - United Nations Development Programme: 

Regards, Farley S Nobre

Different people will have various opinions on this subject, but many believe (including myself) that maintaining native languages is the fundamental and essential key to preserving cultures and traditions. As languages disappear, the oral traditions that go along with them also fade away, which is an immense loss to the world as well as to the native population.

Modern English (or mutilated forms of modern English such as is spoken in parts of the USA) simply does not have words for many elements of native cultures, so keeping the original language active and alive is the only possible answer.

Dear Professor Hackett, let me thank you for your intriguing question. From my point of view it covers three sub-domains.

1) Direct / Instant Democracy. Some political activists, I can cite as examples Beppe Grillo or Pippo Civati in Italy, let their supporters wide room to express themselves and even to fix important decisions over the net. For instance, Civati (Democrat Party), despite his own perplexities, recently decided to appoint Renzi's Government after a web poll. What arises from observation is that decisions still demand time. People have to inform themselves (even on simple, emotional subjects), so the process is not "istant". And, for more complex decisions, it seems reasonable that the cost of being informed (or feel to be) can easily overcome the benefit of direct participation. So, I don't think internet will make democratic systems to shift from representation to direct exercise of decision power.

2) Electronic vote and 3) costs

Beyond the issues raised by Professor Massar (with which I agree), I guess use of technology will allow to adopt more sophisticated voting systems at a reasonable cost. For instance, living in France (roughly 46 millions of voters) I tried to verify if a Single Transferable Vote system might be adopted, under the constraint that a single poll allow the election of both President and Parliament and that MPs represent a constituency each, with gender parity. With an electronic system there is (almost) no problem. The ballot would be similar than an "Euromillions" (european lottery) ticket and the optical machines would be similar (so the transmission network) used for this lottery. Only, if a paper witness of the vote is expected in order to allow ex post control, vote cannot occur from home.