Version 2.0 of the preprint. English translation of the French original: 10.5281/zenodo.20365702 This article proposes a heuristic analogy between political governance and the numerical simulation of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs)... This version corrects typographical errors, clarifies the heuristic use of the DAE index, and updates Table 1.
Abdelouahab Zaatri (Wed,) studied this question.