Theory: Contemporary theories of presidential election outcomes, especially the economic voting and spatial issue voting models, are used to examine voter choice in the 1996 presidential election. Hypotheses: First, we look at the e ects of voter perceptions of the national economy on voter support for Clinton. Second we look at the e ects of candidate and voter positions on ideology and on a n...

We present in this paper a deterministic silence and self stabilizing leader election algorithm on unidirectional id based rings which have a bound on their id values The id values of proces sors in a ring whose size is N have to be inferior to N k The size of communication registers required by the algorithm is constant The algorithm stabilizes in k N time keywords self stabilization leader el...

an algebraic construction for constant dimension subspace codes is called orbit code. it arises as the orbits under the action of a subgroup of the general linear group on subspaces in an ambient space. in particular orbit codes of a singer subgroup of the general linear group has investigated recently. in this paper, we consider the normalizer of a singer subgroup of the general linear group a...

Population protocols are a popular model of distributed computing, in which randomly-interacting agents with little computational power cooperate to jointly perform computational tasks. Inspired by developments in molecular computation, and in particular DNA computing, recent algorithmic work has focused on the complexity of solving simple yet fundamental tasks in the population model, such as ...

The election system used to select Afghanistan’s Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) has radically shaped the realms of democratic stability and political legitimacy since its introduction for the elections of 2005. Afghanistan uses the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV) in 34 provincial-level, multi-member constituencies with a special affirmative action (quota) mechanism for women. The ...

Habit is a frequently mentioned but understudied cause of political action. This article provides the first direct test of the hypothesis that casting a ballot in one election increases one’s propensity to go to the polls in the future. A field experiment involving 25,200 registered voters was conducted prior to the November general election of 1998. Subjects were randomly assigned to treatment...