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Achieving meaningful efficiency in coercion-resistant, verifiable Internet voting

open access: yes, 2012
In traditional voting schemes with paper, pens, and ballot-boxes, appropriate procedures are put in place to reassure voters that the result of the tally is correct.
Haenni, Rolf   +3 more
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Opening the Black Box of Nonprofit Reputation and Volunteer Attraction With Supervised Machine Learning

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the aim to explore the potential of machine learning for nonprofit research, this article contrasts traditional linear regression with four contemporary supervised machine learning approaches. Concretely, we predict (1) reputation ratings and (2) the total number of volunteers for 4021 non‐profit organizations in the U.S.
Moritz Schmid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Practices Into Performance: The Role of Implementation in Board Recruitment and Selection

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recruiting and selecting board members in nonprofit organizations poses distinct challenges, given their reliance on volunteers and the difficulty of securing individuals who are both committed and capable of contributing to organizational performance.
William A. Brown, Nara Yoon, Mark Engle
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms and impacts of future plant invasions: research agendas and management needs under disruptive social‐ecological change scenarios

open access: yesOikos, EarlyView.
No‐analogue futures are characteristic of the Anthropocene, but how global change, and societies' responses, will affect plant invasions remains unclear. Conducting research now to address future needs is crucial for guiding invasion management and policy.
Jennifer L. Bufford   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

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