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ecir.mit.edu
(2020-09-21)Exploration in Cyber International Relations (ECIR), is the label of a multidisciplinary and multidimensional research project initiated under a grant from the Minerva Program, Department of Defense. A joint project of ... -
Economic and political factors in international conflict and integration
(© International Studies Association, 1983)In earlier efforts to explain international conflict and integration, the central focus was upon national attributes and decisionmaking as crucial to understanding the actions of states in war- and peacemaking. Recently, ... -
The effect of property rights protection on economic growth and environmental pollution : a cross-sectional time-series analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001) -
The Effect of Voter Identification Laws on Turnout
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-10)Since the passage of the “Help America Vote Act” in 2002, nearly half of the states have adopted a variety of new identification requirements for voter registration and participation by the 2006 general election. There has ... -
Effective information integration and reutilization : solutions to technological deficiency and legal uncertainty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The amount of electronically accessible information has been growing exponentially. How to effectively use this information has become a significant challenge. A post 9/11 study indicated that the deficiency of semantic ... -
Election Administration during Natural Disasters and Emergencies: Hurrican Sandy and the 2012 Election
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-09-04)The conduct of elections is constrained by a myriad of factors that vary greatly across the 3,000+ jurisdictions authorized to administered elections in the United States. Among these factors are anticipated and unanticipated ... -
Election Day Voter Registration in the United States: How One-step Voting Can Change the Composition of the American Electorate
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2002-06)For most Americans, voting requires two steps. First, an eligible citizen must register in some manner with an appropriate government agency. Second, once registered, the citizen can then cast a ballot on or before election ... -
Election Fraud References
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Election Technology and the Voting Experience in 2008
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-03-25)The 2000 election brought the issue of voting machine performance to national attention. According to the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (2001), up to 2 million votes were lost in 2000 owing to problems associated ... -
Electoral Context and Voter Confidence: How The Context of an Election Shapes Voter Confidence in the Process
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-04)A number of recent studies examine how confident voters are that their ballots are counted as intended in U.S. federal elections from 2000 to 2004. One consistent finding of these studies is that, relative to Democrats, ... -
Electronic Elections in a Politicized Polity
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-06)Since the 2000 presidential elections, the evolution of electronic technologies in American elections—from voting machines to computerized voter registries—has occurred within the context of a highly partisan, polarized, ... -
Emerging trends in cyberspace: Dimensions and dilemmas
(U.S. Army War College Press, 2016-08-01) -
An Empirical Bayes Approach to Estimating Ordinal Treatment Effects
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2008-07)Ordinal variables — categorical variables with a defined order to the categories, but without equal spacing between them — are frequently used in social science applications. Although a good deal of research exists on the ... -
Encrypted Receipts for Voter-Verified Elections Using Homomorphic Encryption
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-09)Voters are now demanding the ability to verify that their votes are cast and counted as intended. Most existing cryptographic election protocols do not treat the voter as a computationally-limited entity separate from the ... -
Energy and development in Latin America: Perspectives for public policy
(© Lexington Books, 1982)This book is in four parts. Each seeks to adopt an empirical as well as policy perspective. Accordingly, the focus is on data availability and macro-economic and policy perspectives. First is attention to the basic ... -
Energy and development: Fossil fuels in developing countries
(© Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1984-06) -
Energy and development: Understanding the risks
(© MIT Industrial Liaison Program, 1983)It is no secret that highly industrialized nations such as Great Britain, the United States, and Japan depend heavily on the oil rich nations of the Middle East - and increasingly Latin America - for the petroleum products ... -
Energy and technological development in Latin America
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981-11)By now, the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is familiar to everyone: it is an almost perfect positive correlation which appears across time and in cross-national comparisons. Figure 1 shows the ... -
Energy consumption and transition dynamics to a sustainable future under a rentier economy
(© Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2018) -
Energy independence
(© 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 ...