Browsing Department of Political Science by Title
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The ABM debate: strategic defense and national security.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969) -
Access to the vote in the 2006 midterm election : evidence from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The 2000 and 2004 U.S. national elections were plagued by problems which caused a significant number of citizens to be effectively denied access to the vote. This paper uses data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional ... -
Access Versus Integrity in Voter Identification Requirements
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-02)The Help America Vote Act hit a nearly fatal snag during the final stages of congressional negotiations over the bill in 2002. The problem? Voter identification requirements. Many conservatives in Congress insisted on the ... -
An Active Approach to Voting Verification
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-05)As our voting systems have come to rely more deeply on computer technology there have been great opportunities to improve the voting process, however, recently computer scientists and the general public have become wary ... -
Administration of Absentee Ballot Programs
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-07-15)1. Americans cast their ballots in three main ways: at a traditional neighborhood polling place on election day; early, in person at a government office or voting center; and absentee, which is usually submitted early by ... -
Advances in Cryptographic Voting Systems
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-08)Democracy depends on the proper administration of popular elections. Voters should receive assurance that their intent was correctly captured and that all eligible votes were correctly tallied. The election system as a ... -
After postmodernity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Agency capitalism : the logic of managed competition in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Alcohol as fuel in Brazil : an alternative energy policy and politics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
America's reluctant allies : the genesis of the political-military cultures of Japan and West Germany
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
American Elections: A Critical Moment for Research and Reform
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2004-12-03)The 2004 election provided important lessons regarding the performance of voting technology, about continuing problems with voter registration and provisional balloting, issues with procedures and poll site voting practices, ... -
The American Internet Voter
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-09)Since the creation of the Internet, there have been a seemingly never-ending number of books and analyses about the role of the Internet in Politics. Many of these books fail to keep in mind that the behavior of ... -
Amish and American? : making space for wholeness amidst compartmentalization in a modern liberal democracy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
The analysis of hostage negotiation through a novel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982) -
An analysis of the impact of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 on the congressional committee assignment process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)With the passage of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), a flurry of research has been conducted on the impact on political parties. However, there exists a gap in the research regarding the impact of the ... -
An analysis of the U.S. military assistance program - South Korea.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971) -
And the truth shall make you free : the international norm of truth-seeking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The theoretical question this dissertation addresses is how do international norms emerge and spread. The theory I propose focuses on changes in the ideational content of norms and on the international agents who facilitate ... -
Anti-nuclear energy in West Germany the conflict between nuclear proponents and opponents.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978) -
Anti-orthodox styles and the charismatic tradition in China as revealed in three popular novels.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973) -
Application of Lean Management Principles to Election Systems
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-02)Lean was first adopted as a management technique for improving results in manufacturing environments. It is based on the 5 principles of identifying the Value to be created, mapping the Value-Stream (incremental addition ...
