Election 2015

Election 2015: new arguments for pharmacare.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, November 17, 2015, 187(17) E483 After decades of debate without federal action, it appears the conversation about universal public drug coverage is changing. “The salience of this issue right now is arguably the highest it’s ever been,” says Steve Morgan, professor of health policy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. “Twenty years...

Election 2015: closing the Aboriginal health gap.

When a Movement Becomes a Party: The 2015 Barcelona City Council Election

Barcelona en Comú, an emerging grassroots movement-party, won the 2015 Barcelona City Council election. This candidacy was devised by activists involved in the 15M movement in order to turn citizen outrage into political change. On the one hand, the 15M movement is based on a decentralized structure. On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties historically develop ol...

140 Characters to Victory?: Using Twitter to Predict the UK 2015 General Election

The election forecasting 'industry' is a growing one, both in the volume of scholars producing forecasts and methodological diversity. In recent years a new approach has emerged that relies on social media and particularly Twitter data to predict election outcomes. While some studies have shown the method to hold a surprising degree of accuracy there has been criticism over the lack of consiste...

Forecasting the 2015 General Election with Internet Big Data: An Application of the TRUST Framework

Many variables, such as currencies, are very difficult to predict and often researchers demonstrate that a simple random walk process can out-perform a model-based forecast using fundamentals. However, there is increasing evidence that such results can be overturned with the use of rich enough dynamic processes in the underlying statistical modelling and also by ensuring that a rich enough info...