Voting rights and intergenerational justice: framing effects and voter attitudes

leadership styles of tefl instructors at gilan university and their effects on the students attitudes and motivation

the subjects of the study are only the tefl teachers and students at gilan university. to obtain the desired data, a questionnaire which was based on the theories and disecussions gathered, was used as the main data gathering instrument. to determine the degree of relationship between variables, covariance and pearson product moment correlation coefficient were the formulas applied. the data we...

Intergenerational Justice Review Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations

Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice

As temporary custodians of the planet, those who are alive at any given time can do a better or worse job of handing it on to their successors. I take that simple thought to animate concerns about what we ought to be doing to preserve conditions that will make life worth living (or indeed liveable at all) in the future, and especially in the time after those currently alive will have died (‘fut...

Double voter perceptible blind signature based electronic voting protocol

Mu et al. have proposed an electronic voting protocol and claimed that it protects anonymity of voters, detects double voting and authenticates eligible voters. It has been shown that it does not protect voter's privacy and prevent double voting. After that, several schemes have been presented to fulfill these properties. However, many of them suffer from the same weaknesses. In this p...

Cumulative Voting and the Voting Rights Act

Following are excerpts from an amicus curiae prepared by Edward Still and Pamela Karlan for The Center for Voting and Democracy in Cane v. Worcester County, a voting rights case concerning county commission elections in Maryland described in Deborah Jeon's article. It is important to stress that the Center's position is that cumulative voting's advantages are even more valid for choice voting (...