Democratic Representations

Global value perceptions: The legitimising functions of western representations of democracy

This paper argues that a fundamental antagonism between democracy and nondemocracy organises lay thinking on global issues. We review key findings of a long-standing experimental research programme that examined the “Democracy-as-value” hypothesis across a variety of political and social contexts. This hypothesis contends that democracy is an ideological belief system that provides value to dem...

Submitted to Ieee Transactions on Information Theory 2 I

Minimization of the `1 (or maximum) norm subject to a constraint that imposes consistency to an underdetermined system of linear equations finds use in a large number of practical applications, including vector quantization, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) (or “crest factor”) reduction in communication systems, approximate nearest neighbor search, and peak force minimization in robotics and ...

The pros and cons of democracy

We introduce the concept of “democracy,” in which the individual bits in a coarsely quantized representation of a signal are all given “equal weight” in the approximation to the original signal. We prove that such democratic representations cannot achieve the same accuracy as optimal nondemocratic schemes.

A Universal Investigation of $n$-representations of $n$-quivers

noindent We have two goals in this paper. First, we investigate and construct cofree coalgebras over $n$-representations of quivers, limits and colimits of $n$-representations of quivers, and limits and colimits of coalgebras in the monoidal categories of $n$-representations of quivers. Second, for any given quivers $mathit{Q}_1$,$mathit{Q}_2$,..., $mathit{Q}_n$, we construct a new quiver $math...

Democratic Urban Streets Design Guideline Codifications (Based on Qualitative Democratic Urban Spaces Design Norms)