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"Legislatures in Evolution presents a series of essays on evolution and change in the legislative context. They cover a wide range of topics, including both proposed and implemented reforms. The contributions included here discuss parliamentarians' attitude toward party discipline; the specific challenges associated with implementing sexual harassment policies within legislatures; the consequences of the Supreme Court's ruling in Mikisew Cree First Nation v. Canada on the government's duty to consult Indigenous Peoples when drafting legislation; parliamentarians' engagement in budgetary control issues; the reform of the rules governing prayers in the Legislature of British Columbia; and time management reforms in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon. Charles Feldman, Geneviève Tellier, David Groves, and their contributors bring together both practical and academic experience and perspectives. They conclude with an analysis of parliamentary reforms, paying particular attention to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning of legislatures."

We consider the evolution equations for the moments of the distribution function in a probabilistic model due to Kac and called by him a caricature of the hard sphere dilute gas.
We first discuss the characteristic time scales of the system. We then investigate the evolution equations for moments of a finite number of variables. Whatever the initial conditions, we show that asymptotically, i.e. when one considers only contributions depending on the longest characteristic time, these moments satisfy the condition of molecular chaos (in the linear approximation). The solution of these equations is a guide to find out the asymptotic solution of the exact evolution equations for all moments, including those involving O(N) variables.

The past 20 years have been notable for the level of conflict affecting principally weak, failing or failed states. This sharp retrospective looks at how claims relating to ethnic identity, which transcend frontiers, have been superimposed on conventional state against state conflicts to leave the international community worse off as a result.

Over the last decades the legal protection of civil liberties has registered an unexpected progress. Yet, rather than being freer we are less so, various considerations having led to the multiplication of proscriptions in every possible field without anyone protesting. Adapted from the source document.

Der Autor analysiert Entstehung und Entwicklung der Gewerkschaftsbewegung in Senegal von der Kolonialzeit bis in die Zeit nach der Unabhängigkeit. Dabei wird in die Betrachtung einbezogen, welchen Einflüssen aus Europa, speziell Frankreich, dieser Prozess ausgesetzt war. (DÜI-Kör)