scholarly journals Political contribution caps and lobby formation: Theory and evidence

2007 ◽  
Vol 91 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 723-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Drazen ◽  
Nuno Limão ◽  
Thomas Stratmann
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez

Recently, several studies have focused on the figure of the viceroy in the Spanish Monarchy, especially in the Kingdom of Naples. However, far less attention has been paid to the role of the vicereines of Naples. The goal of my study is to investigate and clarify the significant roles held by these noblewomen at one of the most important viceregal courts of the Spanish Monarchy. I will focus on one vicereine in particular, Catalina de Zúñiga y Sandoval, 6th Countess of Lemos and sister to the Duke of Lerma (1599–1601), who developed an extensive political network through copious correspondences, requesting and distributing mercedes (dignities and favours) among family members and her clientage. A revisionary analysis of the vicereines’ roles at the Neapolitan court demonstrates how knowledge of their political contribution is essential for a deeper understanding of the economic and political strategies deployed by their families.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Young-Min KIM ◽  
Miok PARK ◽  
Yeong-Bok BAE ◽  
Sungwook E HONG ◽  
Chan PARK

Recently, many Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded in the field of astrophysics. Gravitational wave observations and contributions to LIGO in 2017, cosmology and exoplanets in 2019, and black hole formation theory and discovery of a supermassive black hole in 2020. Surprisingly, that these topics, which are somewhat distant from our daily life, have great physical significance and are being actively studied worldwide. We invited young astrophysicists at the forefront of astrophysic research to share their thoughts on astrophysics. That conversation took place online on June 2, 2021.


2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Psang Dain Lin ◽  
Te-tan Liao

Two-CCD binocular stereo vision systems using pinhole model are attracting research interest in many important fields such as 3-D coordinate measurement. However, new system modeling is difficult because of lack of fundamental imaging formation theory. In this paper, in order to measure a 3-D surface, we demonstrate how a binocular stereo vision system can be modeled by the proposed skew ray tracing method to study the geometric relations between the binocular camera images and the 3-D surface. In order to investigate the overall accuracy and resolution of this system, the influence of infinitesimal camera reading errors on measured coordinate errors is determined by sensitivity analysis. Experimental verification demonstrates that the performance of the proposed system is excellent.


Antiquity ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (354) ◽  
pp. 1718-1727
Author(s):  
Robert Witcher

For this issue of New Book Chronicle, we don lifejackets and head out on, and under, the high seas to review recent volumes on aspects of maritime and underwater archaeology. Along the way are tales of pirates and the odd Sherman tank, but we set sail withSite formation processes of submerged shipwrecks, edited byMatthew Keith. The Introduction, by Oxley and Keith, outlines the development of site formation theory in maritime archaeology, and flags the foundational work of Keith Muckelroy, as summarised through his flow diagram of the sequence of cultural and environmental processes at work between a wrecking event and archaeological investigation. This model features strongly not only in the following chapters, but in every one of the volumes considered below.


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