Browsing by Subject "Elections"

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    Evaluating the criteria for successful elections in post-conflict countries : a case study including Iraq, Sierra Leone, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
    (2014) Dutton, Laura A.; Pegg, Scott; McCormick, John, 1954-; Dusso, Aaron
    Previous research on post-conflict elections has found several criteria important in determining if an area is ready to hold elections and whether or not it is likely to succeed. Although rarely ranked in any determination of importance, several concepts are present in most post-conflict election research. Additionally, there is not an agreed set of standard criteria upon which success can be assumed. When researching the post-conflict election literature two questions arise: (1) is there a set of criteria established to determine if an area is ready to conduct post-conflict elections, and (2) do all criteria need to be present in order to ensure successful post-conflict elections? Most research agrees on common criteria but highlights or researches one dominant criterion, to which is then often attributed to the success of an election. This is found in Krishna Kumar’s focus on international assistance (Kumar, 1998), Staffan Lindberg’s attribution of success to repetition of the election process (Lindberg, 2006), Paul Collier’s focus on per capita income (Collier, 2009), and Marie-Soleil Frere’s research on post-conflict elections and the media (Frere, 2011). When reviewing multiple research sources, it is likely several factors at various times and in various elections will be credited with being the single source criterion for success. This kind of past research is well supported and conclusively argued, but still fails to provide a scope of understanding outside of a single event. In other words, it is case specific and not comparatively applicable across cases. Although this thesis does not intend to “McDonaldize” (Ritzer, 2009) the process of democratization, it does propose to define a common set of criteria necessary, even if in varying degrees, to conduct successful elections in post-conflict environments.
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    Forecasting retweet count during elections using graph convolution neural networks
    (2018-05-31) Vijayan, Raghavendran; Mohler, George; Al Hasan, Mohammad; Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis
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    Public health, pandemic response, and the 2020 US election
    (Elsevier, 2020-10) Choo, Esther K.; Carroll, Aaron E.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    From a health perspective, the upcoming US election could be the most consequential in our lifetimes. The USA has underperformed globally in its pandemic response but still has unparalleled resources and potential. There are, roughly, two choices for the 2020 candidates. Either they can deny the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, and both the immediate failures and structural forces that let it play out so disastrously in the USA, or they can accept that we need change and articulate a real plan for it. The USA can achieve global health excellence, but leadership is needed to guide the country away from counterproductive assumptions of US exceptionalism, recognising with humility where we fall short and where we have much to learn from countries that fare better in health outcomes, both before and in COVID times. We need to start rebuilding with a solid framework, one capable of sheltering every American individual's health and one that will stand strong through the next global health crisis.
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    Voter ID Laws and the Correlation to Voter Turnout
    (2020-04) Sander, Joseph Richard; Dusso, Aaron; McCormick, John; Pegg, Scott
    I address state voter identification laws and test to see if they cause lower voter turnout. My hypothesis states a significance that voter ID laws have in determining voter turnout in each state’s election. The focus is on each of the fifty states elections and examines them from 2000 through 2016. With voter ID laws being the independent variable and turnout a control variable, the study was able to determine a statistical significance between the two. There is no readily available data table for voter ID laws, the table created will advance any further research done within voter ID laws.