Preface Introduction: The Decline of Confidence in Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr. PART ONE: The Scope and Performance of Government The Evolving Scope of Government Ernest R. May Measuring the Performance of Government Derek Bok Fall from Grace: The Public's Loss of Faith in Government Gary Orren PART TWO: The Menu of Explanations Is It Really the Economy Stupid? Robert Z. Lawrence Social and Cultural Causes of Dissatisfaction with U.S. Government Jane Manbridge The Polarization of American Parties and Mistrust of Government David C. King The Politics of Mistrust Richard E. Neustadt PART THREE: Data on Public Attitudes toward Governance Changing Attitudes in America Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Richard Morin, Drew E. Altman, Mollyann Brodie, Mario Brossard, And Matt James Postmaterialist Values and the Erosion of Institutional Authority Ronald Inglehart Public Trust and Democracy in Japan Susan J. Pharr Conclusion: Reflections, Conjectures, and Puzzles Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Philip D. Zelikow Notes Contributors Index

Why people don't trust government

Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother’s cancer; it was a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection. He is the author of the chapbooks Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees, 2010) and Of Some Sky (Bedouin, forthcoming), as well as the critical work Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). His creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bombay Gin, Hotel Amerika, Colorado Review, 1913: a journal of forms, and Fact-Simile, among others. Harrington is the recipient of a Millay Colony residency and a Fulbright Chair. The Spirit of the Laws

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Introduction to Mathematical Sociology

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Executive review : kontrola konstytucyjności prawa przez władzę wykonawczą w Stanach Zjednoczonych

We describe the PArticipatory BUdgeting LIBrary website (in short, Pabulib), which can be accessed via this http URL, and which is a library of participatory budgeting data. In particular, we describe the file format (.pb) that is used for instances of participatory budgeting.

Pabulib: A Participatory Budgeting Library.

We propose a simple yet new formula for estimating national seat shares and quantifying seat biases in elections employing the Jefferson–D’Hondt (JDH) method for seat allocation. It is based solely on the national vote shares and fixed parameters of the given electoral system. The proposed formula clarifies the relationship between seat bias on the one hand, and the number of parties and the number of districts on the other. We demonstrate that the formula provides a good estimate of seat allocations in real-life elections even in the case of minor violations of the underlying assumptions. With that aim in mind, we have tested it for all nine EU countries that employ the JDH method in parliamentary elections. Moreover, we discuss the applications of the formula for modeling the effects of vote swings, coalition formation and breakup, spoiler effects, electoral engineering, artificial thresholds and political gerrymandering. By not requiring district-level vote shares, our formula simplifies electoral simulations using the JDH method.

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Pot and ladle: a formula for estimating the distribution of seats under the Jefferson–D’Hondt method

We propose a simple and new formula for estimating national seat shares in multidistrict elections employing the Jefferson-D'Hondt method for seat allocation solely on the basis of the national vote shares and fixed parameters of the electoral system. The proposed formula clarifies the relationship between seat bias and both the number of parties and the number of districts. We discuss how our formula differs from the simple generalization of the single-district asymptotic seat bias formulae and what assumptions must hold for our method to give exact results. We further demonstrate that despite minor violations of those assumptions, the formula provides a good estimate of actual seat allocations for all EU countries that have a national party system and employ the Jefferson-D'Hondt seat allocation method in multi-district parliamentary elections, i.e., Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Moreover, we show that the formula constitutes a generalization and extension of the McGhee-Stephanopoulos efficiency gap test for political gerrymandering. Finally, we present a number of additional applications of the formula for the evaluation of political strategies.

Pot and ladle: seat allocation and seat bias under the Jefferson-D'Hondt method

I would like to thank Professor Andrzej Zieba of the Chair of Constitutionalism and Government Systems at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University for valuable guidance and comments on this article.

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Dariusz Stolicki

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Executive review : kontrola konstytucyjności prawa przez władzę wykonawczą w Stanach Zjednoczonych

Pabulib: A Participatory Budgeting Library.

Pot and ladle: a formula for estimating the distribution of seats under the Jefferson–D’Hondt method

Pot and ladle: seat allocation and seat bias under the Jefferson-D'Hondt method

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America, 1861