Browsing Department of Political Science by Title
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Analytics for Smart Grid Cybersecurity
(© IEEE, 2017-04-25)Guidelines, directives, and policy statements are usually presented in “linear” text form – word after word, page after page. However necessary, this practice impedes full understanding, obscures feedback dynamics, hides ... -
Analyzing oil production in developing countries: A case study of Egypt
(© International Association for Energy Economics, 1990)This article presents a detailed simulation analysis of the domestic oil sector in Egypt; a near-typical, non-OPEC, oil-producing developing country. Egypt is a small producer by international standards, yet significant ... -
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 ... -
Applications of econometric analysis to forecasting in international relations
(© Peace Science Society (International) Papers., 1973)The apparent neglect of quantitative methodology in political analysis can be explained partly by the absence of a common paradigm or frame of reference for political inquiry and partly by the lack of experience with ... -
The Arab world in the 1980s: Macro-politics and economic change
(© Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1982-04-30)The events of the early 1970's -- preceded by gradual changes which culminated in the war of 1973 and the oil price increases of October that year -- created realities that cannot be comprehended through conventional ... -
Are Americans Confident Their Ballots Are Counted?
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2006-07-17)Expanding the large literature which investigates the characteristics of citizen and voter trust in government we analyze the heretofore neglected topic of voter trust in the electoral process. In this paper, we present ... -
Asians in the Arab world: Labor migration and public policy
(© Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 1986)Ten years after the first oil price rises were declared in 1973 the countries of the Middle East were still struggling to understand the implications of these momentous events. Economic changes induced by events of 1973 ... -
Assessing the Impact of E-Voting Technologies on Electoral Outcomes: an Analysis of Buenos Aires' 2005 Congressional Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08-10)Using data from an e-voting experiment conducted in the 2005 Congressional Election in Argentina, we estimate the effect of different e-voting technologies on the likelihood that citizens cast their vote for different ... -
Assessing the impact of voting technologies on multi-party electoral outcomes: the case of Buenos Aires’ 2005 Congressional Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-04)This paper presents the first study on the impact of different voting technologies on election outcomes in multi-party elections, analyzing data from a large-scale voting experiment conducted in the 2005 congressional ... -
Assessing voters' attitudes towards electronic voting in Latin America: Evidence from Colombia's 2007 e-voting pilot
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-09)Electronic voting could increase citizens' electoral participation and trust in countries characterized by fragile democratic institutions and public discredit of the political system such as those in Latin America. This ... -
An assessment of documentation standards for ten computer models of political problems
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Auditing Technology for Electronic Voting Machines
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-05-19)Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine security has been a significant topic of contention ever since Diebold voting machine code turned up on a public internet site in 2003 and computer scientists at Johns Hopkins ... -
Auditing the Election Ecosystem
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-08-10)Election administration is a highly complex process that involves multiple actors all working to achieve the goal of running an effective election. One critical technique for gathering the performance data needed to improve ... -
Background conditions to the outbreak of the First World War
(© Peace Research Society (International) Papers, 1968)This paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the attributes and capa- bilities of the major European states between the years 1870-1914. When war broke out in the summer of 1914 it was largely unexpected. The bipolarization ... -
Baker Vs. Carr in Context
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The Balance Between Preventing Fraud and Ensuring Participation: Attitudes Towards Voter Identification in New Mexico
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2011-07)This paper examines public opinion on the effectiveness and consequences of voter identification laws in New Mexico. In particular, it focuses on the attitudes central to the court reasoning in the 2008 Supreme Court case ... -
Ballot Design Options
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2002-02-17)Does ballot design “matter”? Does the design of ballots influence how voters cast their ballots, and thereby affect the outcome of an election? -
Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures: When and How Does Malapportionment Matter?
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Between global flows & territorial control : the state, tourism development, and the politics of reterritorialization in the Middle East
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation presents a new type of theory about the impact of increased transnational capital flows on state building processes. Most of the political science literature about globalization has been focused on debating ...
