Browsing Department of Political Science by Title
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Population dynamics and social inquiry: Some methodological imperatives
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Population, resources, and technology: Political implications of the environmental crisis
(© University of Wisconsin Press, 1972)Virtually everyone recognizes the existence on an environmental crisis in the world today, but many uncertainties remain concerning the precise nature of this crisis and its domestic and international implications. This ... -
Population, resources, technology, and environment: Trends and implications
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Population, Technology, and Resources in the Future International System
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Potential Threats to Statewide Voter Registration Systems
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-10-06)The Help America Vote Act (HAVA), passed in 2002, requires that states implement "...a single, uniform, official, centralized, interactive computerized statewide voter registration list defined, maintained, and administered ... -
Power and politics in world oil
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)Though there has recently been more oil in the marketplace than anyone knows what to do with, a feeling of apprehension persists. We know that oil is a fi. nite resource upon which the world is profoundly dependent. We ... -
Practical End-to-End Verifiable Voting via Split-Value Representations and Randomized Partial Checking
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-04-03)We describe how to use Rabin's "split-value" representations, originally developed for use in secure auctions, to efficiently implement end-to-end verifiable voting. We propose a simple and very elegant combination of ... -
Practical Provably Correct Voter Privacy Protecting End-to-End Voting Employing Multiparty Computations and Split Value Representations of Votes
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-05-12)Continuing the work of Rabin and Rivest we present another simple and fast method for conducting end to end voting and allowing public verification of correctness of the announced vote tallying results. This method was ... -
Precinct Voting Denial of Service
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-10-05)This is a type of threat that has a long history in electoral politics, and can take many forms. The basic approach is that a perpetrator attacks precinct voting, regardless of voting system, on election day in an effort ... -
Preliminary Voting -- Prevoting
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-08-06)We introduce the notion of preliminary voting, or pre-voting, wherein a voter deposits—perhaps over the Internet—a preliminary vote or prevote with election authorities at some time before the close of elections. Prevotes ... -
Privacy in context : the costs and benefits of a new deidentification method
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The American public continues to be concerned about medical privacy. Policy research continues to show people's demand for health organizations to protect patient-specific data. Health organizations need personally ... -
Private regimes and legitimacy : the politics of self-regulation in liner shipping and international standardization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
The private sector's capacity to manage climate risks and finance carbon neutral energy infrastructure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation examines the financial aspects of climate change relating to the private sector's capacity to manage climate risks and finance carbon neutral energy infrastructure. The dissertation examines (a) potential ... -
Processes Can Improve Electronic Voting: A Case Study of An Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-09-07)Across the United States, I have personally watched hundreds of precincts vote since 2001. Most recently, I traveled to Reno/Sparks, Nevada to observe the rollout of the Sequoia Direct record electronic voting systems with ... -
Profiles of states as fuzzy sets: Methodological refinement of lateral pressure theory
(© Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2006)One of the most serious challenges in international relations pertains to the theory and measurement of transformation and change. This paper proposes, and then develops a conceptual and methodological extension in the ... -
Qualitative Evaluation: "VotoElectronico: Prueba Piloto 2005, Ciudad De Buenos Aires"
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-11-22)The Buenos Aires “VotoElectronico” pilot project took place on October 23, 2005, in the City of Buenos Aires. It involved a pilot test of four different electronic voting systems, in at least 43 voting stations located ... -
Racial Differences in Election Administration
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-07-25) -
Rational and Pluralistic Approaches to HAVA Implementation
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-07)The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) has created a new dynamic for the oversight and implementation of federal elections, requiring states to assume greater control of election processes vis-a-vis their local governments than ... -
Re-engineering knowledge networks for development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis examines the evolution of Internet based knowledge networks (e-knowledge networks) in the domain of sustainable development. The objective of this thesis is to use an engineering systems approach to understand ... -
Reading contamination : an environmental education center at the Wells G&H Superfund Site
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This thesis proposes and architectural and programmatic methodology which makes legible the processes and consequences of site contamination. This methodology is chiefly demonstrated through a plan for the site which emerges ...