Policy is modeled as the outcome of negotiations between two three-party parliamentary states. An election in jurisdiction A determines the composition of the legislature that selects a representative to negotiate an intergovernmental policy agreement with the representative from the legislature of jurisdiction B. Negotiations are modeled using Nash’s (1950) bargaining framework, modified to ac...

legal and judicial mitigating factors are one of the effective mechanisms for individualization of punishments and persuading offenders to avoid the continuation of the act of crime. these would also prevent the harmful consequences of crime from proliferating, and it help to discover crime and arrest aiders and abettors. the legislature has in different instances specified such legal exemption...

The words “legislature” and “parliament” are often used interchangeably. The distinction between them, however, can be used to structure the analysis of legislatures and/or parliaments in a comparative context. Legislatures legislate; they pass laws. The notion of a “legislature” is thus located firmly in the classical view of a separation of powers between legislature, executive and judiciary....

The Pram6na-vdrttika (hereafter PV) was the most extensive and ambitious work on epistemology to be written by Dharmakirti (ft. 7th centurY C.E.). It is a verse work divided into four chapters, to only one of which did the author write his own commentarY (svavrtti) in prose. The subject matter of the Pram~na-v~rttika-svavrtti (hereafter PVSV) is the process of drawing inferences (anum~na) for o...