What (or Who) Makes Campaigns Negative?

Election Campaigns as Information Campaigns: Who Learns What and with What Effect?

During election campaigns political parties compete to inform voters about their leaders, the issues, and where they stand on these issues. In that sense, election campaigns can be viewed as a particular kind of information campaign. Democratic theory supposes that participatory democracies are better served by an informed electorate rather than an uninformed one. But do all voters make equal i...

Risk or Resilience? What Makes a Difference?

Dropping out of school has been associated with a student’s ethnicity, socioeconomic status, challenging behaviours and low academic achievement. This paper describes research conducted with 1050 students aged 12-15, in three North Queensland urban high schools to investigate issues related to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students at risk of dropping out of school before gaining adequate quali...

What makes investors over or underweight ?

Using data from the IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Surveys conducted in 2001, we analyze the determinants of 31 countries’ international equity holdings. We show that investors in all countries underweight U.S. equities in their portfolios, many by more than they underweight foreign equities in general. Such behavior is surprising given the common perception of the United States as a desi...

Children and research participation: who makes what decisions.

The three federal research funding agencies in Canada— the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council—recently created the Panel on Research Ethics (announced November 9, 2001). The mandate of this inter-agency panel is, in part, to ensure that the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS) on ...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?