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It then employs a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how factors such as ethnic demography, regime strength, economic performance, opposition cohesion and popular unrest influence these metrics. Through this process the thesis aims to demonstrate how the distribution of political power within a state can be estimated by allocation and reshuffling of cabinet ministers. This research project contributes a number of key findings. Firstly, most regimes represent the majority relevant subnational groups within the senior government, but that representation is unbalanced with certain groups being overrepresented and others underrepresented. Secondly, these imbalances and variation in which groups are favoured provide information on the distribution of political power. Thirdly, that different political environments lend themselves to different compositions in the senior government and different strategies of elite power-sharing. In the same vein, individual political events which alter the balance of power are accompanied with corresponding changes in senior government which reflect these shifts in the political hierarchy. These findings contribute to the debates on the determinants of African political power distributions, elite designations and processes, formal vs informal institutions and the political survival literature. A broad benefit of this work is to demonstrate the variance in power sharing arrangements across the African continent. 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Introduction; 2. Exponential Interarrival and Service Times: Closed-Form Expressions; 3. Exponential Interarrival and Service Times: Numerical Techniques and Approximations; 4. General Interarrival and/or Service Times: Closed-Form Expressions and Approximations; 5. Multiclass Queues under Various Service Disciplines; 6. Exact Results in Network of Queues:Product Form; 7. Approximations for General Queueing Networks 327 $a8. Fluid Models for Stability, Approximations, and Analysis of Time-Varying Queues9. Stochastic Fluid-Flow Queues: Characteristics and Exact Analysis; 10. Stochastic Fluid-Flow Queues: Bounds and Tail Asymptotics; Appendix A: Random Variables; Appendix B: Stochastic Processes; References 330 3 $aWritten with students and professors in mind, Analysis of Queues: Methods and Applications combines coverage of classical queueing theory with recent advances in studying stochastic networks. 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