State Assumption of Nomination and Election Expenses

The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning: Potential U.S. House Candidates’ Nomination and General Election Chances

The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning: Potential U.S. House Candidates’ Nomination and General Election Chances We argue that as the individual qualities of potential House candidates (PCs) improve, their chances in both the nomination and general election chances become stronger. However the same is not true for two key characteristics of the district context in which potential candidates migh...

KETAMINE Nomination 1.0 BASIS OF NOMINATION

Election Outcomes and State Economic Performance

This paper examines the relationship between the party in control of the state government and the economic performance of the state over six four-year periods covering the years 1978 to 2002. The main finding is that the political variables, that is, what party controls the executive branch and what party controls the legislative branch of the state government, have no significant effect on the...

Group Leader Election under Link - State

In this work, we place the problem of group leader election in a context \inside the network," meaning that participants in the election process are network switches/routers, rather than hosts. A robust solution to the problem, called the Network Leader Election (NLE) protocol, is proposed for use in networks based on link-state routing (LSR). The protocol is robust , for it achieves leadership...

Group leader election under link-state routing

In this work, we place a long-established distributed computing problem in a new context. Speciically, the group leader election problem is studied \in-side the network," meaning that participants in the election process are network switches/routers, rather than hosts. In this context, an election protocol can take advantage of certain internal operations of the network, such as the underlying ...