SELES: An e-Voting System for Medium Scale Online Elections

A number of proposals have been put forward in recent years by historians in both the British and American academies for increasing the audience for academic history. In part this is due to the significant reduction in support for history programmes in both countries since the 2008 financial crisis. Absent from those proposals, however, is a call to use the popular interest generated by programmes such as Downton Abbey to foster an appreciation for academic history outside the university. Drawing on theories of fan culture developed within media and cultural studies, this article argues for the compatibility of academic history and communities created by fans. It discusses my experience of using Downton Abbey to lecture on the pre-First World War British voting system, utilising the biographies of the show's characters to demonstrate the ways in which British voting was far more restricted in practice than it seemed. The article argues that even those committed to the most traditional forms of academic history can take advantage of opportunities presented by shows like Downton Abbey. It then explores the connections between this method of public engagement and Judith Butler's arguments in Undoing Gender, which examine how conditions for recognition and communication across ideological and cultural divisions can be created.

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Commercial Bank Credit Availability to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria

International Centre of Economics, Humanities and Management (ICEHM) May 5-6, 2015 Bali (Indonesia) ◽

10.15242/icehm.ed0515051 ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Commercial Bank ◽

Bank Credit ◽

Credit Availability ◽

Medium Scale

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Development of Visual Identification System for Classification of Part Family for Medium Scale Industries

International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME) ◽

10.15866/ireme.v11i10.13400 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (10) ◽

pp. 774

Author(s):

N. Chandra Sekhar ◽

P. Laxminarayana

Keyword(s):

Identification System ◽

Part Family ◽

Medium Scale ◽

Visual Identification

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A Market-Oriented Strategy for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

10.1596/0-8213-4727-6 ◽

2000 ◽

Cited By ~ 70

Author(s):

Kristin Hallberg

Keyword(s):

Medium Scale

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Optimization of an Electronic Signature Scheme in a Voting System in a Distributed Architecture

2018 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Engineering (ICCSIE 2018) ◽

10.23977/iccsie.2018.1031 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Signature Scheme ◽

Distributed Architecture ◽

Electronic Signature ◽

Voting System

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The Influence of Modern Party System on the Development of Parliamentarism in Russia: Institutional, Political and Psychological Aspects

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2018-0-4-266-273 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 266-273

Author(s):

Ivan S. Palitai

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Party System ◽

Psychological Aspects ◽

Political Activity ◽

The Public ◽

Political Processes ◽

The People ◽

Voting System ◽

New Ideas ◽

Opinion Polls

The article is devoted to the modern Russian party system. In the first part of the article, the author shows the historical features of the parties formation in Russia and analyzes the reasons for the low turnout in the elections to the State Duma in 2016. According to the author the institutional reasons consist in the fact that the majority of modern political parties show less and less ability to produce new ideas, and the search for meanings is conducted on the basis of the existing, previously proposed sets of options. Parties reduce the topic of self-identification in party rhetoric, narrowing it down to “branded” ideas or focusing on the image of the leader. In addition, the author shows the decrease in the overall political activity of citizens after the 2011 elections, and points out that the legislation amendments led to the reduction of the election campaigns duration and changes in the voting system itself. The second part of the article is devoted to the study of the psychological aspects of the party system. The author presents the results of the investigation of images of the parties as well as the results of the population opinion polls, held by the centers of public opinion study. On the basis of this data, the author concludes that according to the public opinion the modern party system is ineffective, and the parties don’t have real political weight, which leads to the decrease of the interest in their activities and confidence in them. The author supposes that all this may be the consequence of the people’s fatigue from the same persons in politics, but at the same time the electorate’s desire to see new participants in political processes is formulated rather vaguely, since, according to the people, this might not bring any positive changes.

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