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Thirty years ago, in April 1975, Milton Friedman, came to Australia to declare that the world economic situation manifestly unsound.[1] Friedman asserted on that trip what Michael Kalecki predicted in his 1943 article would be the response of ?captains of industry? to Keynesian macroeconomic...
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This paper combines W.E.G. Salter's analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki's analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a Post Keynesian model of investment with process innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. The...
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Computer scientists and social scientists consider the political districting problem from different viewpoints. This paper gives an overview of both strands of the literature on districting in which the connections and the differences between the two approaches are highlighted.
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Multiple hierarchical models of representative democracies in which, for instance, voters elect county representatives, county representatives elect district representatives, district representatives elect state representatives and state representatives a president, reduces the number of...
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The Hungarian mixed-member electoral system, adopted in 1989, is one of the world’s most complicated electoral systems, and, as this paper demonstrates, it suffers from the "population paradox". In particular, the governing coalition may lose as many as 8 seats either by getting more votes or...
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Ukraine belongs among those young countries where the beginnings of democratisation and nation-building approximately coincided. While the development of nation states in Central Europe was usually preceded by the development of nations, the biggest dilemma in the Ukraine is whether a...
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A politikához kötődő kategóriák, adottságok, politikai jellemzők egy-egy térség, ország társadalmi–gazdasági arculatát igencsak sajátossá formálják. A határok, a szomszédok, a kisebbségek, a hatalmi viszonyok, a munkavállalás lehetőségei és az állampolgárság...
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We show that optimal partisan districting in the plane with geographical constraints is an NP-complete problem.
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A XX. század második felében lejátszódó nyelvi fordulat révén egy újfajta posztmodern irányzat jelent meg a társadalomtudományok területén. A diskurzuselméleti megközelítésmód sajátos nézőpontjával az 1990-es évekre már diszciplínateremtő igénnyel is fellépett. Az...
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Az a tény, hogy a közpolitika egyes szereplői nem tudják saját igazukat bizonyítani (legfeljebb érvelni tudnak mellette), fontos következménnyel jár: azzal, hogy az adott közpolitikáról való döntés a tudomány területéről a politika világába, a hatalmi játékok terepére...
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