Using a standard model of the US legislative system as a monotonic simple game, we look at rankings of the four types of players – the president, the vice president, senators, and representatives – induced by power indices. We show that regardless of the power index used, the president is always ranked above the other players, and a senator is always ranked above the vice president and a repres...

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The plenary power doctrine sharply limits the judiciary’s power to police immigration regulation—a fact that has preoccupied immigration law scholars for decades. But scholars’ persistent focus on the distribution of power between the courts and the political branches has obscured a second important separation-of-powers question: how is immigration authority distributed between the political br...

This paper investigates legislation in parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies where the legislature and the president have formal role in legislation. A proposed law is …rst voted in the legislature and if it passes, comes to the consideration of the president. I study two prevalent legislative procedures: (i) Single-round legislation where the president’s action is …nal, (ii) Two-roun...

Approximately 1 week before the publication of the 2017 Hypertension Clinical Practice Guidelines, Prof Marc Twagirumukiza, African Society of Hypertension Executive General Secretary, Prof Oh Min Sen Vernon, Asian Society of Hypertension President, Dr Joey P. Granger, American Heart Association Council on Hypertension Chair, Prof Konstantinos Tsioufis, European Society of Hypertension Presiden...

the death, dismissal, resignation, absence or sickness exceeding a period of two months, lasting the period or other reasons like these are the factors meeting of the presidency's interim in iran. the death is according to the french constitution an example of the vacancy. the dismissal of the president is possible with the political and judicial mechanisms. the dismissal of the president ...

Reorganizing its assistance services, Georgia Tech aims to boost competitiveness and economic growth by fostering innovation throughout the state. Research at Georgia Tech is profi ling the retirement and elder-care sectors to help facilitate public and private investment in those rapidly growing economic areas. IEDC President Jeffrey Finkle relates how his organization supports the economic de...

The present study intended to compare the complaint responses used by President Rouhani and President Obama in the Iranian and US news interview contexts. For this purpose, Boxer’s (1993) six types of indirect complaint responses were adopted: ‘ignorance’, ‘questions’, ‘topic switch’, ‘contradiction’, ‘joke/teasing’, ‘advice/lecture’ and ‘agreement/commiseration’. The transcripts of the live ne...

Philip J. Rosenthal,* Daniel G. Bausch, Stephen Higgs, N. Regina Rabinovich, David R. Hill, Christopher V. Plowe, Karen A. Goraleski, and Patricia F. Walker Authors are members of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s Executive Committee Editor-in-Chief; Scientific Program Chair; Immediate Past President; President-elect; Secretary-Treasurer; Past President; Executive Director...