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Policy-based abstention in Brazil's 2002 presidential election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-03)This paper implements a unified model of individual abstention and vote choice to analyze policy-based alienation and indifference in Brazil’s 2002 presidential election. The results indicate that both alienation and ... -
Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration: Toward Analytics for Cybersecurity of Cyber- Physical Systems
(Science of Security & Privacy Program / © Authors, 2018-03-13)Mounting concerns about safety and security have resulted in an intricate ecosystem of guidelines, compliance measures, directives and policy reports for cybersecurity of all critical infrastructure. By definition, such ... -
Political economy of the global environment
(© International Political Science Association, 1993-01)The politicization of global environmental change has already injected scientific evidence (and uncertainties) in the policy domain—national and international. The nature of political discourse has and will continue to be ... -
Political implications of population dynamics: A critical assessment.
(© United Nations, 1974-06-10)While it is generally recognized that excessive population growth places severe strains upon the environment, there is also some reason to believe that population levels and rates of increase may be important elements ... -
The political logic of sustainability
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The politicization of technology choices
(© Bentley College, 1991)An analysis of the factors involved in international technological advance and of the various strains and tensions created by the intervention of national political considerations. -
Politics of Global Environmental Change: A Conceptual Framework
(International Political Science Association, 1991-07)"The emergence of climate change in the international political agenda is of recent origin. The possibility of environmental changes induced by human action is a relatively new factor in both the conduct and the study of ... -
Poll Workers and Polling Places
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-04-16)In the year after the 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida, there was a sharp focus by many organizations, commissions, and interest groups to determine how to address the problems associated with ensuring that ... -
Population and (in)security: National perspectives and global imperatives
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Population and conflict: New dimensions of population dynamics
(© United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 1983)The pervasiveness of population issues can be seen today in almost all aspects of human society. While our understanding of these issues has greatly increased over the last decade and a half, the implications o! population ... -
Population and the global environment
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Population and the international system: Some implications for United States policy and planning
(© Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, 1971) -
Population dynamics and international violence: Propositions, insights, and evidence
(© Lexington Books, 1974)This volume is divided into three parts. Part I is based on an exhaustive study of the literature dealing directly and indirectly with the relations between population dynamics and international violence. Part II ... -
Population dynamics and local conflict: A cross national study of population and war
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974)There are many uncertainties concerning the implications of population dynamics for conflict and violence among nations. The record is unclear. And despite some preliminary evidence regarding the role of demographic factors ... -
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 ...