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Expert Predicts Possible Shift in Senior Voting Bloc
The majority of people aged 65 and over cast ballots for John McCain in 2008, but older voters will not necessarily favor Republicans in future presidential elections, according to an article in the latest issue of The Gerontologist (Vol. 49, No. 5). view more (2009-11-04)
Electoral Abstention in Portugal - some explanations
The recent publication of a report on electoral abstention in Portugal, carried out by Instituto de Ci'™ncias Socias da Universidade de Lisboa - ICSUL (The Institute of Social Sciences of Lisbon University) and presented to the Home Office and to the Ministry of State Reform and Public Administration, has brought to light results in an area... view more... (2002-10-08)
French footballing loss will be Le Pen`s gain, says expert
A WORLD Cup exit for the multi-ethnic French football team will be seen as a major political boost for the country's Far Right leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, says a leading French football expert. The French team must beat Denmark by two goals in the match on Tuesday (June 11) if it is to stay in the international tournament. If it loses, this will... view more... (2002-06-07)
Dissertation on radical rightist populism in France
In the last two decades, a new family of parties has emerged in western European politics, radical rightist populism. Radical rightist populist parties have grown and scored substantial successes in France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and Austria. These parties promulgate a political message rooted in ethnic nationalism,... view more... (2002-04-24)
Driving Fatalities Surge on US Presidential Election Days
Sunnybrook researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier and Stanford University statistician Robert Tibshirani have found an increased risk of fatal motor vehicle crashes on United States (US) presidential election days. view more (2008-10-01)
Young voters influenced by negative political ads, says study
In the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, an important field study of registered voters aged 18-23 reveals that negative "attack" ads provoke more voter migration than positive ads. view more (2008-02-13)
Proportional Representation Distances MEPs from their Constituencies
The introduction of proportional representation to elections for the European Parliament has made the British group of MEPs more proportional in party terms, but has also led them to have less contact with their constituents. This is the key finding of the first study by researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Aberyswyth into the effects... view more... (2003-05-09)
Study: Parenthood Makes Moms More Liberal, Dads More Conservative
Parenthood is pushing mothers and fathers in opposite directions on political issues associated with social welfare, from health care to education, according to new research from North Carolina State University. view more (2009-09-09)
Top conservation award for University of Kent academic
University of Kent academic, Dr Richard Bodmer, has been given the Presidential Award for 2003 by the Chicago Zoological Society. Dr Bodmer is Reader in Conservation Ecology in the University's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) based in the Department of Anthropology. The Award has been made in recognition of his 'personal work... view more... (2003-11-12)
Americans consider global warming an urgent threat, according to poll
A growing number of Americans consider global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action, and 40% say that a presidential candidate's position on the issue will strongly influence how they vote, according to a national survey conducted by Yale University, Gallup and the ClearVision Institute. view more (2007-10-02)
What electoral changes have there been in two decades of general elections in Portugal?
In a pioneering sociological study in Portugal, the researcher and teacher André Freire analyses the relation between citizens and political parties in electoral acts, in particular, in general elections between 1983-1999, marked by a major rise in abstention and electoral volatility. André Freire analyses the evolution of the... view more... (2002-11-29)
Subliminal messages can influence us in surprising ways
Flag waving is a metaphor for stirring up the public towards adopting a more nationalistic, generally hard-line stance. Indeed, "rally 'round the flag" is a venerable expression of this phenomenon. view more (2007-12-27)
Latest Electoral College forecast shows McCain ahead by as many as 27 votes
A new approach to determining which candidate will win the most electoral votes in the U.S. Presidential race factors in lessons learned from the 2004 election and uses sophisticated math modeling. view more (2008-09-18)
Presidential primary 2008 polls: What went wrong
University of Michigan survey experts working with the American Association for Public Opinion Research have identified several reasons polls picked the wrong winners in the 2008 Presidential Primary. view more (2009-03-31)
US presidential candidates and their views on scientific issues
What are the United States presidential candidates' positions on scientific topics ranging from evolution to global warming? A special news report, which is being published in the 4 January issue of the journal Science, addresses these questions and profiles the nine leading candidates on where they stand on important scientific issues. view more (2008-01-04)
The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science to Professor Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba, Professor of Government at Harvard University and today the world`s leading electoral researcher, has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science of 2002 by The Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University, Sweden, "for his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of... view more... (2002-04-09)
Democrats Seen as the
In a recent study, researchers from several universities looked at why white working-class voters voted Republican in recent national elections even when they didn't like Republican policies. view more (2009-09-14)
Prediction markets accurately forecast influenza activity
Influenza experts have borrowed a page from economists, creating a futures market for influenza activity that predicted outbreaks two to four weeks in advance. The influenza prediction market is presented in the Jan. 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. view more (2006-12-26)
Forecasting the 2005 UK General Election
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, one of the UK's leading academic journals for the study of politics, has today published a series of articles by distinguished psephologists forecasting the result of the forthcoming general election. view more (2005-04-01)
New XML Edition Of Text Encoding Guidelines Published
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium (www.tei-c.org) announces publication of a new, updated version of their Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, known as P4. The Consortium, now in its second year, is an International non-profit corporation set up to maintain and develop the TEI system, which has become the de facto... view more... (2002-06-13)
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