This article intends to clarify views regarding important challenges that have originated from the political, social, cultural and geopolitical structures in the elections systems of Persian Gulf Arab countries. Challenges that determine the compatibility levels of elections systems of these countries with the world’s democratic systems. An efficient elections system is the prerequisite for the...

the accountability for reasonableness (afr) concept has been developed and discussed for over two decades. its interpretation has been studied in several ways partly guided by the specific settings and the researchers involved. this has again influenced the development of the concept, but not led to universal application. the potential use in health technology assessments (htas) has recently be...

In dealing with scarcity of resources within healthcare systems, decision-makers inevitably have to make choices about which services to fund. Setting priorities represents a challenging task that requires systematic, explicit and transparent methodologies with focus on economic efficiency. In addition, the engagement of the general public in the process of decision-making has been regarded as ...

Democratic systems arise in the context of greedy approximations in Banach spaces. The greedy algorithm is an important method in numerical mathematics; for more details see the early work of V. N. Temlyakov [16], [17]. At the same time it also points to some interesting issues in functional analysis. In particular, we would like to emphasize the basic theorem of S. V. Konyagin and V. N. Temlya...

Title of Document: DISSOCIATED CHOICES IN DIRECT DEMOCRACY: PREFERENCES, POLICY RESPONSIVENESS AND TRUST IN BALLOT INITIATIVE ELECTIONS Joshua J. Dyck, Ph.D. 2006 Directed By: Professor James G. Gimpel, Department of Government and Politics This research begins with a simple question: do direct democratic voting systems fulfill their promise of generating more majoritarian policy outcomes? I pr...

This paper argues that there is a general absence of democratic theory in African political scholarship in terms of providing the underlying principles, meaning, canons and criteria of democracy in African culture. The paper exposes the conceptual errors implicit in the conflation of democracy as a concept and as practiced in different political systems. Consequently, it contends that an eclect...