This collection of articles is presented to the reader in the framework of systems studies of elections as a class of service systems vital for democratic societies. Fundamentals of engineering systems, including those of systems servicing large customers such as electorates in local and national elections, are developed and studied at the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, a part of ...

The current discussion among journalists and scholars in media research and peace studies focuses on the question of how the media can become vehicles for conf1ict prevention and constructive, nonviolent conflict transformation. This proposal of critical peace journalism as an alternative to traditional war reporting is not suggesting that violence should not be reported or that what is reporte...

In this paper, with point of departure in theories on generic fascism and critical gender history, I analyse gendered visions in fascist propaganda produced by the National Socialist Labour Party (NSLP), an interwar Swedish party. The presented results are part of my forthcoming thesis, aiming at investigating how the NSLP legitimated and made fascism intelligible in a Swedish context. Even if ...

eResearch is a concept or word which has come into vogue in academic research circles since 2000. Fundamentally, it is collaborative and interactive research made possible by the Internet and data and computational grids. But like any other new concept, it can and has been abused and misused by people keen to “jump on the bandwagon”. eResearch presents many challenges, both technical and organi...

Information may be transmitted directly from a sender to a receiver, or indirectly through intermediaries. How do intermediaries affect the reporting truthfulness of an informed sender? When does he prefer using intermediaries? In this model, an objective sender or intermediary passes on information truthfully, while a biased one wants to push a particular agenda but also has reputational conce...

Truby King's theory is that the vast majority of full term babies are born healthy and that they become weakly and unhealthy largely owing to the well-meaning but misguided efforts of the parents and attendants. His great success in reducing infantile mortality in New Zealand to the lowest in the world proves the truth of his hypothesis. Curiously enough he has written nothing for the professio...