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An N-Version Electronic Voting System
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-05-20)The ballot battles of the 2000 US Presidential Election clearly indicate that existing voting technologies and processes are not sufficient to guarantee that every eligible voter is granted their right to vote and implicitly ... -
Nations in conflict: National growth and international violence
(© Freeman, 1975)Each equation in the model represents a “piece” of a dynamic system of simultaneous equations, with the variables signaling the individual factors shaping the overall dynamics over time. Rendered in the form of an econometric ... -
Networked Database System for Geographically Dispersed Global Sustainability Data
(U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1996-04-24)A system of computers and implemented method for identifying and organizing data relating to a global problem into a plurality of hierarchies of interrelated categories stored on a plurality of computer systems interconnected ... -
New Barriers to Participation: Application of New Mexico's Voter Identification Law
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-11)In democratic societies there is a tension between maximizing ballot access and minimizing voter fraud. Since the 2000 presidential election, this tension has been central to discussions about election reform, at the ... -
The new migration in the Middle East: A problem for whom?
(© Center for Migration Studies, 1977-12-01)This paper describes the recent trends in migration throughout the Middle East, identifying the major implications of this movement, and isolating the critical policy issues for both Egypt and other Arab states. The author ... -
The new migration in the Middle East: a problem for whom?
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)Popular views of the Middle East tend to concentrate on the cultural homogeneity of the Arab states, their conflict with Israel, and the dispute over petroleum prices. Yet in recent years a new issue has emerged that may ... -
The New Normal
(© The Mark News, 2017-06-13)As vast as cyberspace is, so too are the threats, exploits and damages that seem to multiply by the day through this network of computer interconnections around the globe — elements that are shaping a new normal which is ... -
Newspaper Reporting on Campaign Finance
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The nonalignment of Afro–Asian States: Policy, perception, and behavior.
(© Cambridge University Press, 1969)The purpose of this paper* is to examine the orientation of three Afro-Asian states in world politics during the mid 1950s and early 1960s-an important period in the development of their current international posture-with ... -
Nuclear non-proliferation regime effectiveness : an integrated methodology for analyzing highly enriched uranium production scenarios at gas centrifuge enrichment plants
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The dramatic change in the international security environment after the collapse of the bipolar system has had a negative impact on the effectiveness of the existing nuclear non-proliferation regime. Furthermore, the success ... -
On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-04-29)We address the problem of auditing an election when precincts may have different sizes, and suggest methods for picking a sample of precincts to audit that takes precinct size into account. one method yields optimal auditing ... -
On Estimating the Size and Confidence of a Statistical Audit
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-04-22)We consider the problem of statistical sampling for auditing elections, and we develop a remarkably simple and easily-calculated upper bound for the sample size necessary for determining with probability at least c whether ... -
OPEC: Calming a nervous world oil market
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)In October 1973, the oil-exporting countries announced an increase in oil prices from $3.11 to 5.12 per barrel. The consuming nations regarded the price increases with horror—as an audacious and unwarranted economic ... -
Organizational innovation: Global workflow and institutional e-Networking
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Orienting Graphical User Interfaces Reduces Errors: The Low Error Voting Interface
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-02)This paper demonstrates opportunities for reducing errors with orienting graphical interfaces for voting. We have built many interfaces to explore opportunities for keeping voters aware of selections they have made and are ... -
The paradoxes of industrial strategies : neoliberal reform and state intervention in Argentine industry from ISI to Martínez de Hoz.
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Partisanship and Voter Confidence, 2000-2012
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-06-01)To what degree is voter confidence in election procedures driven by satisfaction with the outcome of an election, as opposed to trust in government or objective features of the polling place, such as voting technology? ... -
A partnership with nature: Construction consortium for the global environment
(© Construction Business Review, 1991)There is no doubt that human beings are intervening in natural environments in potentially significant ways. There are controversies about the scale and scope of these interventions. That fact is not questioned by anyone, ... -
Party Control and Legislator Loyalty in Senate Elections
(2005-06-19)