In 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) brought an end to the long reign of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). However, despite high expectations, this politically transformative event has not unleashed significant policy change in Japan. We highlight five electoral factors that have acted as important constraints on policy change under DPJ rule. First, majoritarian electoral rules have l...

The authors believe that the judgment of German Federal Constitutional Court contains serious breaches EU law and is manifestly erroneous. judges refuse to apply CJEU’s arrogate power assess legality European Central Bank (ECB) decisions review reasoning CJEU, which they qualify as being ‘unintelligible arbitrary’ for sole purpose declaring it ‘ultra vires’. They use principle proportionality i...

* PD Dr. iur. (Fribourg/Switzerland), LL.M. (Frankfurt a.M.), attorney-at-law (Zurich), [email protected]. This research has been presented at the Second Max Planck PostDoc-Conference on European Private Law. I would like to thank Professor Pascal Pichonnaz (Fribourg, Switzerland) for supporting my application to the conference. Furthermore, I would like to thank all participants of the conferenc...

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Third political parties are influential in shaping American politics. In this work we study the spread of third parties ideologies in a voting population where we assume that party members are more influential in recruiting new third party voters than non-member third party voters. The study is conducted using an epidemiological model with nonlinear ordinary differential equations as applied to...

With the increasing personalization of the Web, many websites allow users to create their own personal accounts. This has resulted in Web users often having many accounts on different websites, to which they need to authenticate in order to gain access. Unfortunately, there are several security problems connected to the use and re-use of passwords, the most prevalent authentication method curre...

when the parties enter into a contract it is valid and binds the parties: that meams one of them cannot terminate the contract without an agreement; in this article we try to prove the base of this principle: in islamic law if the evidence of the sources are not sufficient we can accompany the effects of the contract if it is unconditional and absolute in islamic law it is known as esteshaab.

accept any responsibility regarding the contents of Master's Theses ii iii Summary The Parallel Object-Oriented Specification Language (POOSL) is meant for the specification of systems that are complex, reactive, concurrent, real-time and distributed. The SHESim tool can be used to construct POOSL models and run simulations on them. An abstract model of the Steady State Control part of the MASC...