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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Three times in this century the US public has panicked with fear because of exaggerations of external threats to the nation. These panics peaked in 1950,1960, and 1980. Why did the U.S. markedly exaggerate the Soviet threat ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation finds that the full implementation of the traditional security approaches of prevention, deterrence and defense would not be effective at protecting the United States from a catastrophic biological attack. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This dissertation explores the evolution of welfare systems in post-socialist countries. Utilizing a range of data on social policy legislation and outcomes across countries, the author shows the extent to which post-socialist ...
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(2005-06-10)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines technological innovation capabilities in the Chinese machine tool, automobile, telecommunications equipment, and information technology sectors in the era of reform ( 1979-2002). Contrary to other ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Violent non-state actors have consistently served as a destabilizing force within the international system. These groups create a base within a state's sovereign territory, the "base state," and utilize this platform to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation explores how states can use positive inducements and negative sanctions to successfully bargain with nuclear proliferators and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It seeks to answer the following ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Great Powers often adopt coercive strategies, threatening or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) for both economic profitability and democratic justice, is explored after the roots of the idea of economic bicameralism in socio-economic history and existing socio-economic institutions (such as Works Councils) ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Malignant narcissism is a personality syndrome marked by hubris, paranoia, and reckless indifference to the human consequences of decisions. Malignant-narcissistic leaders tend to commit major blunders in international ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This study develops a general theoretical framework for the analysis of organizational behavior by focusing on the notion that organizations develop unique information-processing frameworks, which it labels "organizational ...
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