Election Marginality, District Homogeneity, and Policy Responsiveness

The health policy election.

MUCH IS AT STAKE IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECtion. President Barack Obama’s vision and former Governor Mitt Romney’s vision differ across many domains, but perhaps most starkly in the area of health policy. Fundamentally, the candidates disagree on the role of government as the guarantor of affordable access to health insurance, as evidenced by their plans for private insurance markets, Medica...

Inequality in Policy Responsiveness?

Identity and Marginality

Studying identities, the processes of their formation and the ways in which they are both shaped by and help to shape wider social and cultural contexts is a key preoccupation in many disciplines of the arts, humanities and social sciences. These fields of academic inquiry are principally concerned with human beings, their thoughts and beliefs, the ways in which they interact with one another a...

The Policy Views of Partisan Election Officials*

In the debate about partisan election administration, little attention has been focused on the views of local election officials. Election officials can be purveyors of partisanship as well as observers of the election administration environment. We use a series of national surveys of local election officials to examine the degree to which local officials of opposing parties have different poli...

Supernode Election Algorithm in P2P Network Based upon District Partition

With the rapid development of P2P, there are some new applications such as P2PSIP and intercommunication of heterogeneous DHTs (Distributed Hash Tables). In those scenarios, there need some nodes acting as proxies and gateways. Such nodes as proxies or gateways in P2P overlays were called Supernodes (SNs). The problem of which nodes could be the SNs was called SN election. In an overlay that ha...