Browsing Department of Political Science by Title
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Electoral Context and Voter Confidence: How The Context of an Election Shapes Voter Confidence in the Process
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-04)A number of recent studies examine how confident voters are that their ballots are counted as intended in U.S. federal elections from 2000 to 2004. One consistent finding of these studies is that, relative to Democrats, ... -
Electronic Elections in a Politicized Polity
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-06)Since the 2000 presidential elections, the evolution of electronic technologies in American elections—from voting machines to computerized voter registries—has occurred within the context of a highly partisan, polarized, ... -
Emerging trends in cyberspace: Dimensions and dilemmas
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An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-07)Ordinal variables — categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them — are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of research exists on the ... -
Encrypted Receipts for Voter-Verified Elections Using Homomorphic Encryption
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-09)Voters are now demanding the ability to verify that their votes are cast and counted as intended. Most existing cryptographic election protocols do not treat the voter as a computationally-limited entity separate from the ... -
Energy and development in Latin America: Perspectives for public policy
(© Lexington Books, 1982)This book is in four parts. Each seeks to adopt an empirical as well as policy perspective. Accordingly, the focus is on data availability and macro-economic and policy perspectives. First is attention to the basic ... -
Energy and development: Fossil fuels in developing countries
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Energy and development: Understanding the risks
(© MIT Industrial Liaison Program, 1983)It is no secret that highly industrialized nations such as Great Britain, the United States, and Japan depend heavily on the oil rich nations of the Middle East - and increasingly Latin America - for the petroleum products ... -
Energy and technological development in Latin America
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981-11)By now, the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is familiar to everyone: it is an almost perfect positive correlation which appears across time and in cross-national comparisons. Figure 1 shows the ... -
Energy consumption and transition dynamics to a sustainable future under a rentier economy
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Energy independence
(© Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-11)This study is one of a number done by academic and other research institutions for the Department of State as part of its external research program. The program is planned and coordinated by the Department of State Research ... -
Energy policy in Egypt
(© Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1984)Energy issues are becoming increasingly central to the Egyptian economy, and the country's energy sector is regarded by many analysts and policy makers as holding one critical key to Egypt's future. However, sound management ... -
The energy policy project: Petroleum and natural gas in Egypt
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Cairo University, 1983)This study is undertaken as part of the Energy and Development Research Program at M.I.T. under the direction of Professor Choucri. It is designed to Contribute to understanding energy-economy interactions in development ... -
Environment and conflict: New principles for environmental conduct
(© United Nations, 1992)The crucial connections between environment and conflict among nations continue to escape political scrutiny. The international community as yet pays little attention to such connections, thereby missing the opportunity ... -
Environment, development, and international assistance: Crucial linkages
(© U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1992) -
Environmentalism
(© Oxford University Press, 1993) -
EQUAL VOTES, EQUAL MONEY:COURT-ORDERED REDISTRICTING AND THE DISTRIBUTION OFPUBLIC EXPENDITURES IN THE AMERICAN STATES
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Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: Toward Foundations for Global Policy
(© MIT Political Science Department, 2022-12-21)Matters of ethics are becoming more salient at all levels of politics, almost everywhere. In the scientific community, ethics in AI is increasingly gaining attention. The fact is that the rate of change in AI innovations ... -
Evaluating New Voting Technologies in Latin America
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-12-14)Having remained virtually unchanged since the enactment of universal and secret suffrage at the end of the nineteenth century, voting procedures are undergoing a radical transformation in many countries through the ... -
The evolution of network based cybersecurity norms: An analytical narrative
(© IEEE, 2014-08-13)We examine coordination dilemmas in cybersecurity policy by using an already developed evolutionary game theoretical model [2]. We suggest that norms to encourage network based security systems may not evolve independently ...