Author begins with a delineation of the Finnish system and thereafter moves on to analyze the dynamics of the system. The main research task is to assess the status of the regional councils in relation to the prevailing organizational structure. Although Finland has during the centuries divided into distinct regions these have not been used as a basis for either political or administrative stru...

We investigate Monte-carlo sampling in games with imperfect information. We show that for very simple game trees the chance of nding the optimal strategy with Monte-carlo sampling rapidly approaches zero as the number of moves in the game increases. We explain this sub-optimality by identifying the diierent kinds of errors that can arise, and by analysing their interplay. We also relate our tes...