Browsing Department of Political Science by Title
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Methodological perspectives and research implications
(© 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 ... -
Migration and employment in the construction sector: Critical factors in Egyptian development
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979-01)The migration of construction workers is having a strong effect on the construction sector and on the economy as a whole. There are costs and benefits to this migration. And there are policy implications that must be clearly ... -
Migration and security: Some key linkages
(© Gale Academic OneFile, 2002)As migration is defined as the movement of people across national boundaries--an inter-state phenomenon--we would expect it to be addressed by students of international relations.... It is ... glaring to note the absence ... -
Migration in the Middle East: Old economics or new politics?
(© Middle East Research Group, 1988-04-30)What we have in the Middle East today is a very distinctive and peculiar phenomenon that can be understood only in the context of the realities of the past decade: almost everyone is on the move. Nowhere do we see a truly ... -
Migration in the Middle East: Transformation and change
(© American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East, 1984)The large-scale international movement of manpower is one of the most dramatic effects of the oil price increase and related events of 1973. The issues raised by migration in the Middle East have not received the attention ... -
Migration processes among developing countries: The Middle East
(© Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)This paper is part of a research project undertaken within the context of the Technology Adaptation Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is allowed to appear in the Migration and Development Study Group ... -
Migration to the Middle East
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Militarism
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Military Voting and the Law: Procedural and Technological Solutions to the Ballot Transit Problem
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-03-08)During the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida, the ballots submitted by individuals living overseas—especially military voters—were seen as crucial to the election outcome as the margin of potential victory ... -
"Minimalist Historical Materialism"
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Mobilizing Pasadena Democrats: Measuring the Effects of Partisan Campaign Contacts
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-06-28)This paper examines the effect of an entire campaign using a randomized field experiment here the treatment consists of campaign decisions made by a campaign manager. In contrast to the majority of the field experiments ... -
Modeling Renewable Energy Readiness: The UAE Context
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011-06)Modeling technology policy is becoming an increasingly important capability to steer states and societies toward sustainability. This paper presents a simulation-modeling approach to evaluate renewable energy readiness, ... -
A Modular Voting Architecture ("Frogs")
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001-08-18)We present a “modular voting architecture” in which “vote generation” is performed separately from “vote casting.” -
Money, Politics, and Political Equality
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"A More Democratic Liberalism"
(Michigan Law Review, 1994) -
Multidisciplinary perspectives on population and conflict
(© Syracuse University Press, 1984)Motivated by Population Dynamics and International Violence (1974) this book begins with 10 prepositions that set the stage for unbundling the population variables on the one hand, and the manifestations of conflict on the ... -
Multinational corporations and the global environment
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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 ...
