Loyal Opposition and the Political Constitution

loyal opposition On the Declarative Specification of Models

C olleagues in my research group and in collaborating institutions typically model software designs using graph-ical tools such as Rational Rose, Together, and Visio. I often witness them toiling to adjust a graph's appearance with the mouse or laboriously visiting each class to change a single field's type. This need not be so. Design models should be composed textually, and graphs should be a...

The Loyal Opposition Comments on Plan Domain Description Languages

In this paper we take a critical look at PDDL 2.1 as designers and users of plan domain description languages. We describe planning domains that have features which are hard to model using PDDL 2.1. We then offer some suggestions on domain description language design, and describe how these suggestions make modeling our chosen domains easier. The Loyal Opposition PDDL has served as the underpin...

The Emergence and Evolution of Political Parties of the Constitution: The First and Second Periods

The evolution of studies of political parties of constitution: The first and second periods show that the evolution of parties indicates that researchers' attitude to political pheno-mena also coincide with the evolution of political realities has been transformed, and the consideration of ideologies in the analysis of the parties have replaced with religious perspectives and anti-authoritarian...

The Political Economy of the Constitution

Urbanization and Political Opposition: the Philippines and Japan

ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT POLITICS IS THAT industrialization and urbanization often bring about profound changes in the nature of politics. The literature on village politics, especially in Asian countries, rather consistently :shows that rural communities try to avoid overt partisan confrontations and strive instead to arrive at some kind of "consensus." It is understandable tha...