« Mythe inépuisable qui se prête à toutes les "lectures" » (J. Tulard), depuis plus de deux siècles Napoléon Bonaparte suscite des interprétations multiples ont fait couler beaucoup d’encre tout en divisant chercheurs. À l’occasion du bicentenaire sa mort, ce dossier thématique montre comment faces personnage – le héros et scélérat été représentées dans la production dramatique spectacles au se...

This paper addresses a basic security requirement of electronic voting, namely that a voter can correct or abort his vote at any time prior to his final vote casting. This requirement serves as a protection against voter precipitance (haste). We specify rules for a reset and cancel function that implement the correction and abort requirement. These rules are integrated in an extended version of...

As with the other presidential elections from this decade, the 2008 election was followed by considerable speculation as to how new efforts to mobilize voters affected the eventual outcome. Although the conventional wisdom implies that “Democrats benefit from higher turnout,” previous research in political science demonstrates that such a conclusion applies to actual election results inconsiste...

Analyses of global climate policy as a sequential decision under uncertainty have been severely restricted by dimensionality and computational burdens. Therefore, they have limited the number of decision stages, discrete actions, or number and type of uncertainties considered. In particular, other formulations have difficulty modeling endogenous or decision-dependent uncertainties, in which the...

Maxime, abbé de Lérins puis évêque Riez (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), voit son culte se déployer dès les lendemains sa mort à la fin du ve siècle. Il illustre plasticité des dévotions l’égard moines évêques reposant sur un antique corpus hagiographique. Elles sont certes attachées une identité diocésaine locale, mais rejoignent précocement groupe classique vénérables modèles circulant large échell...