Informing The Legislature

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 Supreme Court as a Legislature

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...

The Informing Science Institute: The Informing System of a Transdiscipline

The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an informing system, designed using informing science principles, for the express purpose of informing researchers who study problems related to informing. The ISI provides several informing channels, including peer reviewed journals, conferences, books, and outreach activities. The ISI seeks to resonate with university researchers to provide rigorous an...