The civil service system is the backbone of the administrative machinery of the Indian nation. India which is a union of states, has a democratic system. The political system of the country is pluralistic, having three tiers of administration, namely, central, provincial, and local. The federal parliament is bicameral. The lower house known as the Lok Sabha, constitutes elected members of parli...

London’s eighteenth-century expansion required the reorganization of rights for large tracts of land. This property previously lay within equitable estates and agricultural villages. Removing property from these restrictive property-rights regimes proved problematic. Parliament catalyzed the process by passing acts reorganizing rights to land and resources. Two theories characterize Parliament’...

By the year 1999 Scotland will have a new Parliament, the first in Scotland since 1707. This Parliament will not make Scotland a homogenous entity. Within months of the country-wide endorsement in September 1997 of a devolved Parliament divisions were already apparent, as Scotland’s two major cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, were involved in a public debate over which city should be the temporary...

Today, the EU is no longer a mere union of states, but more and more a union of citizens. Nevertheless, European decisions are still taken almost exclusively by the states. The role of the elected European Parliament as a source of direct legitimation is underdeveloped. This role has to be further strengthened if we are to overcome the democratic deficit of the Union-through more decision-makin...

Given any allocation of parliament seats among parties, we characterize all the stable government configurations (supported by at least a majority of the parliament) in terms of winning coalitions and policy outcomes. We consider a two dimensional policy space and we assume that there are four parties that care mainly about holding office, and only instrumentally about policy. We find that for ...

A party is dominant if there is a majority coalition to which that party belongs such that it affords this party more possibilities to form an alternative winning coalition than any of the other members of the coalition (see Peleg [1980, 1981]). In this article I present empirical evidence showing that an allocation of seats in a parliament is biased toward the high frequency occurrence of a do...

WASHINGTON President C lin ton endorsed R ussian P re s id en t B o ris Y e lts in ’s decision to disband parliam ent and set new elec­ tions Tuesday. “ I support him fu lly,” Clinton said as his secre­ ta ry o f s ta te b rushed aside questions about the legality of Yeltsin’s actions. Clinton issued a statement of support a fte r ca llin g Ye lts in and asking for assurances that the Russian p...

May 14th: Mr. Tom Driberg asked ttle Minister of Health if, in view of the social and economic disabilities suffered by the children of those who have been Certified insane, he will take steps to Provide for the formal annulment of ?Uch certification when found to have een based on an erroneous diagnosis. The Minister refused, but following a !^PPlementary question from Mr. uriberg said that if...

21th April. The Minister of Health, replying to a question from Lord Balniel, stated that the total non-domestic staff for local authority mental health hostels had trebled in the last two years and that most staff, when appointed, had already had some relevant training or experience. He said further that one special training course had been held by the N.A.M.H., and that he understood others t...