November 2009 - survey after survey shows Americans, in general, to be among the world’s most optimistic people. Yet from the inception of the Center for Public Leadership’s National Leadership Index in 2005 through last year, Americans’ confidence in their leaders marched steadily...

Protection System Hidden Failures (PSHF)-induced sequential events have been shown to have higher impact and greater likelihood of segueing to major outages. Hence, a pragmatic mitigation approach is to intercede in the outage-related successive event stream. From a cyber perspective, as...

Over the last 20 years, states and provinces have become increasingly involved in the financing and administration of elementary and secondary education. Local school boards, however, still retain control over key aspects of the provision of education. Historically, these boards were organized...

For the last decade, politics in Taiwan have become increasingly polarized over the national identity issue. Yet, the bitter division between the two major parties is not really reflected in the electorate. We seek to explain this paradox by examining the changing nature of political parties, in...