Candidate Competition Research Articles

Presidential Threshold in The Election of The President and Vice President from A Constitution and Human Rights Perspective

Art 222 Law Number 7 year 2017 concerning General Elections, regulates the provisions of the threshold where the acquisition of seats in the DPR must be 20 percent or obtain valid votes nationally as much as 25 percent then political parties can nominate and nominate pairs of presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Setting the Presidential Threshold in the election of President and Vice President in Indonesia from a constitutional and human rights perspective brings its own problems in the Indonesian constitutional system. The Presidential Threshold system does give rise to privileges for certain parties. This is because only parties that meet the threshold can compete directly in the presidential election. It is for this reason that the privileges of these major parties have given birth to political cartels. What is bad for democracy is that it eliminates equal competition for all potential candidates to contest the Presidential election. The Presidential Threshold is not justified in eliminating or emasculating the meaning of democracy which provides rights and freedoms for citizens. Among the constitutional rights include the right to vote, the right to nominate (the right to be a candidate), and the right to nominate candidates, these are rights guaranteed by the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia which everything is reduced because of this Presidential Threshold provision.

“First Democracy, Then Centralism”: The New Shape of Village Elections Under the “One-Shoulder Pole” Policy

ABSTRACT Since the full implementation of the ‘one-shoulder pole’ policy in 2019, village secretaries are now expected to concurrently serve as village heads. Simultaneously, the question arises as to how village secretaries can be guaranteed to be elected as village heads. Drawing on an in-depth case study of Y County, this paper shows that the local government has adopted an approach I call ‘first democracy, then centralism’ to ensure that village elections involve democratic elements, such as open nomination and candidate competition, yet also produce a designated winner who is, in the government’s view, most qualified to govern the village. Such an approach has generated two consequences on village elections: First, the significance of village Party elections has greatly increased. Since the result of village committee elections is already certain, Party elections become the key phase that determines who will hold village office and in which candidates still have an opportunity to compete against one another. Second, it is now imperative for candidates to earn support and approval from the local government in order to become the village leaders in the new era.

The GC Immersive: Patching the pipeline with genetic counseling experiences for all.

Genetic counseling graduate programs largely recommend that prospective applicants shadow or gain exposure to genetic counselors (GC) as a means of developing insight into the profession. However, prospective students have cited this need to shadow genetic counselors as harder to access in comparison to other prerequisites. The GC Immersive (GCI) at Color was created as a no-cost, remote, self-paced professional exploration program designed to provide resources and live interaction with a team of genetic counselors to increase accessibility to GC exposure and enhance the competitiveness of underrepresented GC candidates. The program design and curriculum were developed by a team of certified genetic counselors and a GC student in 2021 and is marketed to those who have one or more identities underrepresented in the GC field. In total, 287 individuals enrolled in the program in the first and second cycles, with 115 providing demographic information. The majority of enrollees identified as an underrepresented minority in GC in one or more identities, with individuals who are ethnic and/or racial minority (70%), first-generation college student (44%), lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, intersex, and/or asexual (LGBTQIA+) (27%), and disabled community (16%) reported as the most common identities. Most participants had never shadowed a GC (55%) prior to this course. Twenty-two percent of enrollees resided outside of the United States, representing 15 different countries. Of the 287 enrolled participants, 21 (7%) have completed the program, with the remaining participants having between 5 and 11 months to complete. All individuals who completed the program reported they felt better prepared to apply for a GC program. The general structure of this program can be replicated by any institution, as the program consists primarily of recorded content. Ongoing effort by genetic counselors is minimal and has the ability to provide GC experience to prospective applicants at great scale.

Sole Candidate in the Local Leader Election and Its Implications on the Supervision of the Democratic Process in Indonesia

The sole candidate in the local leader election has become a phenomenon in the world of democracy in Indonesia. The sole candidate in the local leader election in Indonesia, is considered a solution to the impasse of democracy since 2015. This phenomenon has become a solution as well as a polemic in the community, because it is full of monopoly power. This study examines the implementation of a sole candidate in the local leader election in Bone Regency and its implications on the democratic process. This research is classified as field research with qualitative methods, while the approach used is descriptive analytic. The data sources of this research are based on primary data and secondary data. Primary data were taken from the results of interviews and observations. The results of this study indicate that the practice of selecting a sole candidate (choosing an empty column) in Bone Regency is not in the same breath as democracy and reduces the interests of the people's sovereignty in electing a leader. Some of the implications that arise include: a monopoly on political parties, injuring the interests of local communities, sole candidate competition which results in harassment and complications of pressure on voters who campaign for empty columns. As a result, people feel that their rights are not taken into account in the local leader election. The implication of this finding is that in responding to the practice of selecting sole candidates as in Bone Regency, there are many problems, so the sole candidate competition must be ended immediately because it is not in tune with the philosophical meaning of democracy.

Research and analysis of implementations of the NIST PQC competition second round candidates focused on the Xilinx FPGA family

Today, the question of the stability of modern existing cryptographic mechanisms to quantum algorithms of cryptanalysis in particular and quantum computers in general is quite acute. This issue is actively discussed at the international level. Therefore, to solve it, NIST USA has decided to organize and is currently holding a competition for candidates for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms NIST PQC. The result of the competition should be the adoption of various types of cryptographic algorithms for standardization, namely, asymmetric encryption, key encapsulation and electronic signature (at least one algorithm of each type). 82 algorithms were submitted by the start of the competition for the standardization process. Based on the minimum eligibility criteria defined by NIST, 69 algorithms were considered for the 1st round. Given several parameters, namely, security, cost, performance, implementation characteristics, etc., 43 and 11 algorithms were excluded at the end of the 1st and 2nd rounds, respectively, and the other 15 algorithms were left for participation in the 3rd round. The algorithms left in the 2nd round can be divided into 5 different categories depending on their mathematical basis: those based on the isogeny of elliptic curves, those based on algebraic lattices, those based on mathematical code, those based on multivariate transformations and those based on hash functions. Security is the main evaluation criterion that determines competition in the NIST competition, and it is clear that candidates' software implementations are focused mainly on it. However, it is extremely important that the algorithm has an effective hardware implementation. Timely identification of hardware inefficiencies will help focus the cryptographic community efforts on more promising candidates, potentially saving a large amount of time that can be spent on cryptanalysis. This paper discusses and compares the FPGAs of Xilinx family. Data on the implementation of the candidates of the 2nd round in the process of standardization of post-quantum cryptography NIST, which are focused on the FPGA of the Xilinx family, are presented and compared.

Local Elections and Local Politics in Indonesia: Emerging Trends

This article analyses local elections held in the post-Suharto era in Indonesia with a special reference to pilkada (pemilihan kepala daerah langsung [direct elections of local leaders]) between 2005 and 2008. Using the state-society perspective, it argues that local elections have seen the rise of new political dynamics and rapid growth of electoral activity in regions. Pilkada has brought about the emergence of coalitional politics, political ideologies or streams (aliran), the rise of ‘little kings’ (raja kecil), an increasing number of businesspeople entering local politics, the use of gangsters/goons (preman) in local elections, a boom in political consultancy, and the increase of the novote camp. There are grounds for optimism regxarding the intensity of the interaction between the local state and society in the regions. The people in the regions have now had the opportunities to vote for their leaders directly, something which was impossible in the past. There is no doubt that the electoral competition for candidates is going to be very important because the availability of good potential local leaders varies between the regions. Political parties themselves have to improve their performance and build a proper recruitment process so that they can find good candidates who can attract voters.

What Determines the Voluntary Disclosure of CEO Succession Planning?

An established succession planning program for the identification and grooming of its next leader helps maintain the continuity of firm strategy and leadership style, which influences long-term firm performance and viability. Disclosure of succession planning information may alleviate investors’ doubts about whether the firm has a succession planning plan, while it may increase competition for CEO candidates, leading to increases in the cost of securing qualified candidates. This study explores what determines firms’ decisions to provide this disclosure using firms that initiate CEO succession planning disclosure in a given year and their control firms. We find that firms are more likely to initiate the disclosure of CEO succession planning when 1) segment concentration (negatively related to organizational complexity) becomes lower, 2) the board of directors becomes more independent, 3) the CEO has reached the retirement age of 64, 4) the CEO becomes more important relative to other executive officers in the industry labor market, 5) the number of analysts following (reflecting external monitoring) increases, and 6) CEO tenure (reflecting CEO entrenchment) declines. Overall, our findings suggest that the disclosure of CEO succession planning is motivated by investor demand for a smooth transition among top management and enhanced transparency in CEO succession planning.

Implikasi Sistem Kepemiluan terhadap Pembiayaan Partai Politik di Indonesia

Every general election is always accompanied by legal products that are regulated in law. The experience of implementing general elections in Indonesia since the old order, the new order, and the reform order has always been changing. Every amendment to the Election law is always carried out prior to the implementation of the Election on the grounds of the evaluation results of the previous Election. Changes to the electoral law are also always carried out by a package of changes to the election administration law and the law on political parties. This package of changes to laws is also called the package of changes to political laws. Then how about the changes in the post-reform election law? As in the previous elections, there have been changes in laws. A fundamental change in the post-reform Election system is the Decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) number No. 22-24 / PUU-VI / 2008 regarding judicial review of Article 214 letters a, b, c, d, and e of Law 10/2008. That is, with this Constitutional Court decision, of course there has been a change in the Election system from a closed proportional system to an open list proportional system. However, without realizing it, this change has actually opened the space for candidate competition to widen. Because candidates no longer depend on the serial number but depend on the ability to get the most grassroots votes. Changes in the Election system will be followed by changes in campaign strategies and changes in campaign finance by individual candidates and political parties. As a result, the campaign strategy of distributing money towards the end of the campaign was carried out massively. This fact cannot be covered up, which has implications for party financing. Massive open wars of money politics encourage political political parties to be able to provide financial access assistance for candidates to win the competition. This is where the dynamics of campaign finance begin, which implies that campaign finance is very expensive.

How do MNCs translate corporate talent management strategies into their subsidiaries? Evidence from MNCs in Thailand

How do MNCs translate corporate talent management strategies into their subsidiaries? Evidence from MNCs in Thailand

What Determines the Voluntary Disclosure of CEO Succession Planning?

An established succession planning program for the identification and grooming of its next leader helps maintain the continuity of firm strategy and leadership style, which influences longterm firm performance and viability. Disclosure of succession planning information may alleviate investors’ doubts about whether the firm has a succession planning plan, while it may increase competition for CEO candidates, leading to increases in the cost of securing qualified candidates. This study explores what determines firms’ decisions to provide this disclosure using firms that initiate CEO succession planning disclosure in a given year and their control firms. We find that firms are more likely to initiate the disclosure of CEO succession planning when 1) segment concentration (negatively related to organizational complexity) becomes lower, 2) the board of directors becomes more independent, 3) the CEO has reached the retirement age of 64, 4) the CEO becomes more important relative to other executive officers in the industry labor market, 5) the number of analysts following (reflecting external monitoring) increases, and 6) CEO tenure (reflecting CEO entrenchment) declines. Overall, our findings suggest that the disclosure of CEO succession planning is motivated by investor demand for a smooth transition among top management and enhanced transparency in CEO succession planning.

Two candidate competition on differentiated policy sets

In the classical spatial model of two candidate competition, an equilibrium exists only if the distribution of voter ideal points is such that every median hyperplane passes through a single policy. The necessity of this condition crucially depends upon both candidates being able to propose any policy in a Euclidean space. We assume that each candidate is affiliated with a party which restricts the policies that its candidate can propose and that voters have Euclidean spatial preferences. We show that if the candidates can only make proposals from disjoint sets of policies, then an equilibrium exists if each median hyperplane passes through a region with a nonempty interior that contains the equilibrium policy. An equilibrium, if it exists, is generically robust to perturbations of the voters' ideal points.

Opposition in transition: pre-electoral coalitions and the 2018 electoral breakthrough in Malaysia

ABSTRACT In May 2018, the Malaysian opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan or Hope Alliance won the federal elections for the first time in the history of the country. The electoral authoritarian system is now in a state of transition. The electoral breakthrough was the result of longer-term socio-economic transformations, but the formation of a strong pre-electoral coalition was ultimately decisive for the victory. The article compares various coalitions and their performance during seven elections since 1990. The structured, focused comparison analyses the coalitions during this period because prior to 1990 the opposition was fragmented. On the basis of a three-level concept regarding the strength of pre-electoral coalitions, the article argues that Pakatan Harapan was successful because the coalition was sufficiently comprehensive (as indicated by the number and the competitiveness of candidates), cohesive (concerning ideological proximity and behavioural routinization) and well-rooted in society (in terms of linkages to voters/supporters and to civil society networks or organizations).

Моделі безпеки постквантових криптографічних примітивів

In this paper, the essence is considered and security models of asymmetric post-quantum cryptographic primitives of different types are investigated. The basis taken security models that are recommended by NIST USA in the requirements of the PQC competition for candidates for post-quantum cryptographic primitives. Such algorithms include asymmetric cryptographic transformations such as asymmetric encryption, digital signature, and key encapsulation mechanism. The following security models are recommended, which are related to: the asymmetric encryption — IND-CCA2 (IND-CPA, IND-CCA); the digital signature — EUF-CMA (and its variations); the key encapsulation mechanisms — СK-model. In this paper, the basic essence of such security models is considered. The use of security models in research of cryptographic primitives is relatively new. A generalization of each of these models and a definition of the necessity and conditions, and the consequences of their application are required. Such models take into account the application environment in which an unauthenticated-links adversarial model and authenticated-links adversarial model can operate. The paper considers the concept of indistinguishability and security model of post-quantum asymmetric ciphers on its basis. The property of indistinguishability under chosen plaintext attack is determined. The concept of semantic security is considered. The types of most common attacks based on indistinguishability are given. Existing versions of the EUF-CMA security model — SUF-CMA, etc. are considered. Definitions of «forward security, forward secrecy» and «perfect forward secrecy (PFS)» are given. In addition, the paper considers the peculiarities of the application regarding to perspective asymmetric transformations of the «game theory». The definition of concept «game theory» is given

Two Candidate Competition on Differentiated Policy Sets

In the classic spatial model of office-motivated candidate competition, equilibrium exists only if the distribution of voter ideal points has a total median, a condition which is virtually never met. However, in the classic model, both candidates can propose policies anywhere in policy space, and this is a crucial element in proving the necessity of that condition. If each candidate may only propose policies from a subset of policy space, does an equilibrium exist more generally? I consider a model in which each of two office-motivated candidates proposes a policy from a distinct policy set. When the policy sets are convex and one does not contain the proposed equilibrium policy, it need not be the case that the proposed policy is a total median, because any competing proposal must be at least some positive distance away, and may only lie in certain directions; hence, the conditions of Plott do not apply. Instead, it is only necessary for each median hyperplane to lie in a given halfspace formed by the hyperplane separating the proposed equilibrium from the closest policy the opponent can propose. The intersection of all of the halfspaces is the set of guaranteed supporters of the equilibrium policy, that is, the set of voters for whom the equilibrium policy is closer than any alternative the opposing candidate can propose. Hence, the requirement on the median hyperplanes for the proposed policy to be an equilibrium is that one can choose a median voter on each median hyperplane to be a guaranteed supporter of the proposed policy.

Candidate competition and voter learning in the 2000–2012 US presidential primaries

When candidates in primary elections are ideologically differentiated (e.g., conservatives and moderates in the Republican Party), then candidates with similar positions affect each others’ vote shares more strongly than candidates with different ideological positions. We measure this effect in US presidential primaries and show that it is of first-order importance. We also show that voters’ beliefs about the candidates harden over the course of the primary, as manifested in the variability of candidate vote shares. We discuss models of sequential voting that cannot yield that pattern of results, and propose an explanation based on a model with horizontally and vertically differentiated candidates and incompletely informed voters. Consistent with the predictions of this model, we also show that, in more conservative states, low-quality conservative candidates do better relative to high-quality conservatives, and vice versa.

Candidate Competition and Voter Learning in the 2000-2012 US Presidential Primaries

When candidates in primary elections are ideologically differentiated (e.g., conservatives and moderates in the Republican party), then candidates with similar positions affect each others' vote shares more strongly than candidates with different ideological positions. We measure this effect in U.S. Presidential primaries and show that it is of first order importance. We also show that voter beliefs about the candidates harden over the course of the primary, as manifested in the variability of candidate vote shares. We discuss models of sequential voting that cannot yield this pattern of results, and propose an explanation based on a model with horizontally and vertically differentiated candidates and incompletely informed voters. Consistent with the predictions of this model, we also show that, in more conservative states, low quality conservative candidates do better relative to high quality conservatives, and vice versa.

Campaigns, descriptive representation, quotas and women’s political engagement in Mexico

ABSTRACTTo what extent does the presence of a competitive female legislative candidate influence women’s political engagement in the context of a gender quota regime? Existing work on the effects of increasing descriptive representation on women’s engagement suggests a positive effect, but less attention is paid to how gender quotas may alter the relationship. We develop and test two hypotheses, one suggesting female candidates positively influence women’s engagement, while the other suggests female candidates in a gender quota regime may create a backlash effect and negatively influence women’s engagement. We draw on two nationally representative post-election surveys from Mexico and original data on the number and competitiveness of female candidates to examine the influence of these candidacies on multiple measures of political engagement. Overall, our results are more consistent with a backlash effect. We find female legislative candidates have little positive effect on increasing political engagement among women.

Are voters cursed when politicians conceal policy preferences?

In campaigns, candidates often avoid taking positions on issues, concealing the policy preferences that would guide them if elected. This paper describes a novel explanation for ambiguity in political campaigns. It develops a model of candidate competition in which policy-motivated candidates can choose whether or not to announce their policy preferences to voters. It applies Eyster and Rabin’s (Econometrica 73(5):1623–1672, 2005) concept of cursed equilibrium, which allows for varying degrees of understanding of the connection between type (policy preference) and strategy (whether to announce). If voters updated according to Bayes’ rule, they would understand that candidates who do not announce positions are strategically concealing an unpopular policy preference. In equilibrium, only the most extreme candidates, those located furthest from the median voter’s position, would choose to take no position. However, if voters do not sufficiently appreciate the informational content of a non-announcement, unraveling will not occur and both extremists and more moderate candidates will not announce positions.

Machine learning-based kinetic modeling: a robust and reproducible solution for quantitative analysis of dynamic PET data

A variety of compartment models are used for the quantitative analysis of dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) data. Traditionally, these models use an iterative fitting (IF) method to find the least squares between the measured and calculated values over time, which may encounter some problems such as the overfitting of model parameters and a lack of reproducibility, especially when handling noisy data or error data. In this paper, a machine learning (ML) based kinetic modeling method is introduced, which can fully utilize a historical reference database to build a moderate kinetic model directly dealing with noisy data but not trying to smooth the noise in the image. Also, due to the database, the presented method is capable of automatically adjusting the models using a multi-thread grid parameter searching technique. Furthermore, a candidate competition concept is proposed to combine the advantages of the ML and IF modeling methods, which could find a balance between fitting to historical data and to the unseen target curve. The machine learning based method provides a robust and reproducible solution that is user-independent for VOI-based and pixel-wise quantitative analysis of dynamic PET data.

Labour Market Policies and Recruitment in Europe and Italy

Over the last few years, most studies and labour market policies have focused on the competence of people seeking employment. Few studies have tackled the issue from the point of view of employers and how policy might affect the personnel recruitment. The aim of this article is to try to understand the impact of labour policy on the processes involved in seeking personnel, with specific reference to business organizations. After examining the strategic, organisational and environmental variables that affect the personnel recruitment, the study focuses on analysing active and passive labour policies in Europe and Italy. The results that emerge highlight the fact that labour policy affects certain specific aspects of the personnel recruitment: employee turnover, an individual’s employability, outplacement, efficiency of matching between job supply and demand, competitiveness of candidates and their productivity, efficient allocation of job offers, crowding-out effect, degree of selectivity and contingency of search campaigns. The article ends with a few observations regarding the limitations of the study and future research.