The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Contingent Valuation panel recommended that a response category be included along with the vote in favor and vote against options associated with a referendum contingent valuation question that allows individuals to express lack of a well defined opinion. However, the recommendation did not include guidance on how to analyze such responses. In...

A BSTRACT This article investigates how voters decide in referendums on European integration. More specifically, it analyses how political information influences voting behaviour. It argues that political information conditions the way in which people make decisions in referendums. The impact of political information is examined not only at the individual, but also at the contextual level. It i...

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 July 9, 2016 115 The president of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences professor Sir Robert Lechler was candid when it came to his view on the research implications of the UK referendum result: “I think this represents the biggest challenge to the UK’s research sector in living memory.” The referendum on June 23, in which voters took the momentous decision to leave the...

This research is entitled "A descriptive Analysis of Kurdish Political Discourse, with Reference to Referendum Discourse". It an attempt descriptively analyze the referendum discourse. analysis one levels critical discourse method for analyzing In this research, taken because political a type in which conflict between Authority and Society crystalline, aim analysis. current focusing on main que...

After the enfranchisement of 16- and 17-year olds in 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, much research continued to prioritise questions how education influences young people's political engagement. By contrast, this paper advances an original focus on educational outcomes youth participation investigates engagement might have consequences. Shortly after referendum, we interviewed a strategi...

ABSTRACT The referendum experiences of each state vary according to their democratic background, development, and welfare level. Accordingly, it becomes hard adopt a uniformed approach towards the issue necessitates questioning value practice within itself. Although is tool for reflecting people’s will, may not necessarily take place in every case. Constituent referendums differ from other type...

The goal of this research was to investigate the social carrying capacity of an urban park in Vienna, Austria. We used a stated choice approach, combined with a referendum style conjoint model. Based on the hypothesis that the perception of crowding is influenced by several factors, digitally calibrated images were generated to depict in a systematic and rigorous manner different visitor number...

We present a demonstrator that visualizes the Twittersphere debate on whether the UK should remain in or leave the European Union. Data is collected using three strategies: hashtag search terms, extraction from the full stream and following specific users. The demonstrator can be used to show the different discussion topics identified by the different search strategies.

The 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which codified a near-absolute ban on abortion in Ireland, was ratified 1983 and removed after high profile campaign ‘Repeal 8th’ 2018. This article analyses language of pro-choice group Together for Yes anti-choice groups Love Both Pro-Life Ireland that campaigned ‘Save 8th’. We combine an application Appraisal framework with account conceptual meta...

The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines perspective EU countries, with regards how citizens working country reacted to end free movement workers. Employing synthetic control methods using data from Portugal, we estimate behaviour UK Portugal would have evolved if Remain vote had won referendum. Our results suggest that refere...