Dissent at Scale

Dissent in Numbers: Making Strong Anonymity Scale

Current anonymous communication systems make a trade-off between weak anonymity among many nodes, via onion routing, and strong anonymity among few nodes, via DC-nets. We develop novel techniques in Dissent, a practical group anonymity system, to increase by over two orders of magnitude the scalability of strong, traffic analysis resistant approaches. Dissent derives its scalability from a clie...

The Dissent over Dissent Over Descent

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To Dissent or not to Dissent? Informative Dissent and Parliamentary Governance

Legislative dissent occurs frequently in most parliamentary systems despite its potential detrimental effects on both party and legislator, i.e., legislators depend on their party label for re-election, whose value in turn depends in part on the party’s ability to appear cohesive. Commonly dissent has been attributed to ‘extreme’ preferences. I provide an informational rationale for dissent. Di...

Why conservation needs dissent.

M. NILS PETERSON,∗ MARKUS J. PETERSON,† AND TARLA RAI PETERSON‡ ∗Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, 13 Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1222, U.S.A., email [email protected] †Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2258, U.S.A. ‡Department of Communication, Program in Peace & Confl...

Forms of Dissent