Engagement not coercion

Tor is not enough: Coercion in Remote Electronic Voting Systems

Current electronic voting systems require an anonymous channel during the voting phase to prevent coercion. Typically, low-latency anonymization-networks like Tor are used for this purpose. In this paper we devise a monitoring attack that allows an attacker to monitor whether participants of an election voted, despite the use of a low-latency network during the voting phase, thereby breaking an...

Beyond Separation in Federalism Enforcement : Medicaid Expansion , Coercion , and the Norm of Engagement

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius may be known, in both the popular and academic commentaries, as the case about the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate provision. History may record it as one of the most significant cases in the jurisprudence of cooperative federalism. In invalidating part of the Medicaid Expansion provision, the Roberts Court became the first to inv...

Social pressure, coercion, and client engagement at treatment entry: a self-determination theory perspective.

Research on coercion in addiction treatment typically investigates objective sources of social pressure among legally mandated clients. Little research has examined the impact of clients' perceptions of social pressures in generalist addiction services. Clients seeking substance abuse treatment (N=300; 221 males and 79 females; M age=36.6 years) rated the extent to which treatment was being sou...

Engagement, workers' strategies, therapeutic relationships, coercion and outcomes in community mental health services in Northern Ireland

Background To explore possible associations between the level of engagement, the strategies workers use to encourage treatment compliance, the therapeutic relationship, perceived coercion and outcomes in a cohort of 'difficult-to-engage' clients receiving either Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) support or Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) support in Northern Ireland. This study also aimed ...

Cryptic coercion.