Electric voting in the wisconsin legislature

An analysis of lobbying activity on tobacco issues in the Wisconsin legislature.

BACKGROUND Although public and media attention has focused on the federal role in the regulation of tobacco products, state government remains an important arena for changing tobacco control policies. Lobbying state officials by public health and the tobacco industry is a commonly used mechanism to influence public policy. METHODS Major bills of the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 Wisconsin legislati...

Computers in the Legislature

Power in the US Legislature

Using a standard model of the US legislative system as a monotonic simple game, we look at rankings of the four types of players – the president, the vice president, senators, and representatives – induced by power indices. We show that regardless of the power index used, the president is always ranked above the other players, and a senator is always ranked above the vice president and a repres...

The Municipal Legislature in Novosibirsk , 1992 – 95

ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...

Ranking units in DEA by using the voting system