Moving beyond a unitary actor assumption that models members of a self-evidently collective entity such as a political party “as if” they all shared a single brain, this paper explores the cohesion and discipline of party legislators in multi-party systems operating under the constitutional rules of parliamentary government. We do this in the context of Italian politics, for which a consistent ...

Flexibility of small loads, in particular from Electric Vehicles (EVs), has recently attracted a lot of interest due to their possibility of participating in the energy market and the new commercial potentials. Different from existing works, the aggregation techniques proposed in this paper produce flexible aggregated loads from EVs taking into account technical market requirements. The produce...

The COVID-19 caused a global crisis of an unprecedented scale. In order to contain the spread virus, governments took instant measures, adopting new legal regulations which included restrictions and limitations in sphere constitutional rights freedoms. aim paper is discuss protesters’ actions their different forms, analyse response law enforcement officers who secured demonstrations. I undertoo...

In recent years there has been rapid growth in cloud computing and social networking technologies. Cloud computing shifts the computing resources to a third party, eliminating the need to purchase, configure and maintain those resources. With the incentive of lowered operational costs in software, hardware and human effort, many companies are considering the use of cloud services. Likewise, soc...

We provide the first description of and security model for authenticated key exchange protocols with predicate-based authentication. In addition to the standard goal of session key security, our security model also provides for credential privacy: a participating party learns nothing more about the other party’s credentials than whether they satisfy the given predicate. Our model also encompass...

We study the notion of ad hoc secure computation, recently introduced by Beimel et al. (ITCS 2016), in the context of the Private Simultaneous Messages (PSM) model of Feige et al. (STOC 2004). In ad hoc secure computation we have n parties that may potentially participate in a protocol but, at the actual time of execution, only k of them, whose identity is not known in advance, actually partici...

Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, who enjoys more domestic power and higher international name recognition than any other president of a Latin American democracy, is now facing serious political troubles. Since mid-2007, the Chávez administration has been beset by street protests, electoral setbacks, and economic woes that amount to a second wave of discontent. The first wave, when critics passionately ...

In Gausdal, a mountainous community in southern Norway, a conflict involving dogsledding has dominated local politics during the past two decades. In order to understand local protests against this activity, in this article we apply discourse analysis within the evolving approach of political ecology. In this way, we also aim at contributing to the emerging trend of bringing political ecology “...

This paper describes a methodology for the participatory design of services in the public sector. The stakeholders participating in the design include three major players, the public which uses the service, the government body which sponsors and finances the service, and the organization (government or third party) that delivers the service. We propose a method for a) gathering the – possibly c...

the cycle of protests that swept the united states beginning in 2010 has its roots in the growing disillusionment of a significant portion of the american populace in the prospects and opportunities for growth and development. despite the extensive myopia of various sectors of the american public vis a vis the rest of the world, if there is one thing much of the american public holds dear is th...