political
RSS politicalSGER: Computer-Assisted Interpretation of Citizen Input in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
White Paper The resulting deluge poses a technical and political challenge: how can official recipients, who have invited citizen input, make sense of commentary received on such a massive scale? Computer-mediated communication, specifically facilitated by the... [03 Jul 2008]
On the Determinants of Local Government Performance: A Two-Stage Nonparametric Approach
White Paper The second stage identifies some critical determinants of efficiency, focusing both on political and fiscal policy variables. This paper analyzes the efficiency of Valencian (Spain) local governments and their main explanatory variables. [03 Jul 2008]
IPv6 Transition Test Scenarios
White Paper However, this situation is changing due to technical, geographical, and political drivers. While the first RFC for IPv6 has been available for more than six years, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) has never really reached the phase where the... [03 Jul 2008]
Terrorism Program
White Paper The Federal Bureau of Investigation has defined terrorism as "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment of it, in furtherance of political or... [03 Jul 2008]
Policies to Foster Human Capital
White Paper Politicians and social commentators routinely express concern about the political and social consequences of growing economic inequality. In response to the new labor market for skills in which the real wages paid to high-skilled and highly... [03 Jul 2008]
eGovernment Leadership - Realizing the Vision
White Paper In moving government online, the challenges are complex - legal, administrative, regulatory, social and political forces combine to create a delicate mix of stakeholders that must be managed in the transition to online government. [03 Jul 2008]
e-Government Leadership - Realizing the Vision
White Paper In moving government online, the challenges are complex - legal, administrative, regulatory, social and political forces combine to create a delicate mix of stakeholders that must be managed in the transition to online government. [03 Jul 2008]
European Merger Control: Do We Need an Efficiency Defence?
White Paper To help answer these two questions, the paper starts by explaining the economic and political reasons that justify the introduction of an "efficiency defence" in a merger control policy. The purpose of this paper is to discuss two questions. [03 Jul 2008]
Orchestrating Grid Workloads - Neither Feast Nor Famine
White Paper Since the typical political climate discourages sharing of resources, the wasted resources are never used. Enterprises constantly struggle to find the best way to manage their hardware, software, and management resources. [03 Jul 2008]
E-Government, Federalism and Democracy: The New Governance
White Paper A second view is that e-government is a powerful new instrument of social and political realignment. This paper attempts to bring together a number of discussions that have developed over the course of our research for the Changing Government Series. [03 Jul 2008]
The Ramifications of the Microsoft Anti-trust Case on Other Intellectual Properties
White Paper Bill Gates and his Microsoft Corporation smacks of political payback. There are many lessons to be learned from the current Microsoft Anti-Trust case. The most important lesson has to do with the preservation of intellectual property as personal... [03 Jul 2008]
The Info-gap
White Paper People are deadly serious about this question and the outcomes are determined by an endlessly complicated social and political process, ultimately, of persuasion. Real outcomes in life are often decided more by the manipulation of what is in the... [03 Jul 2008]
Climate Change 2001: Mitigation - Technical Summary
White Paper After the publication of the SAR, continued research in the area of mitigation of climate change, which was partly influenced by political changes such as the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate... [03 Jul 2008]
A World Without Wires: The Future of Wireless Networking
White Paper It will also discuss the social and political issues surrounding this important technology. The technology to support wireless networking continues to evolve at a rapid pace, promising that faster, cheaper, more pervasive wireless computing... [03 Jul 2008]
Beyond Lessig's Code for Internet Privacy: Cyberspace Filters, Privacy-Control, and Fair Information Practices
White Paper An ongoing series of Internet privacy scandals has demonstrated the centrality of personal data to social, political, and economic life. As a consequence of these scandals, federal and state agencies are currently investigating the information... [03 Jul 2008]
