-Political redistricting involves the amalgamation of a large number of geographic or statistical units into a smaller set of electoral districts such that the districts satisfy various criteria prescribed by law, judicial mandate, or historical precedent. This paper describes a network-based optimization model that is currently being used by governmental decision-makers in New Zealand to assis...

This paper reports the first authorship attribution results based on the automatic computational methods for the Lithuanian language. Using supervised machine learning techniques we experimentally investigated the influence of different feature types (lexical, character, and syntactic) focusing on a few authors within three datasets, containing transcripts of the parliamentary speeches and deba...

The defining feature of parliamentary democracies is the fact that the executive derives its mandate from and is politically responsible to the legislature. This implies that who forms the government is not determined by an election alone, but is the outcome of a bargaining process among the parties represented in the parliament. Furthermore, it implies that the government may terminate at any ...