Filters: Date: "2006-07-20" Collection: ir_uspace
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Hall, Thad | Are Americans confident their ballots are counted? | Expanding the large literature which investigates the characteristics of citizen and voter trust in government we analyze the heretofore neglected topic of voter trust in the electoral process. In this paper, we present results from three national surveys in which we asked voters the confidence they... | Election reform; Public management; Principal-Agent Theory | 2006-07-20 |
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Hall, Thad | Controlling democracy: the principal-agent problems in election administration | Election reform has become a major issue since the 2000 election, but little consideration has been given to the issues associated with managing them. In this article, we use principal agent theory to examine the problems associated with Election Day polling place voting. We note that Election Day v... | Election reform; Public management; Principal-Agent Theory | 2006-07-20 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Dispelling the pipeline myth: gender, family formation, and alternative trajectories in the academic life course | Academic careers have traditionally been conceptualized as pipelines, through which young scholars move continuously from graduate school to tenure-track positions. This understanding often fails to capture the experiences of female Ph.D. recipients, who take ladder-rank assistant professorships at ... | Careers, academic; Tenure; Teaching, higher education; Employment | 2006-07-20 |
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Hall, Thad | Human dimension of elections: how poll workers shape public confidence in elections | The role of voting technologies has received considerable attention since the 2000 election. However, the voter experience at the polling place and especially the voter-poll worker interaction is also of critical importance. Rarely are poll workers considered an arm of the government, even though th... | Poll workers; Voter confidence; Election outcomes; Voter perceptions | 2006-07-20 |
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