N otre Dame students voted three-to-one in favor of the pro­ posed McGovern-Hatfield bill in yesterday’s campuswide referen­ dum. Roughly one-third of the student body expressed their opinion in the referendum, with 1446 voting for the bill and 472 against, making a total of 1918 votes cast. The McGovern-Hatfield bill proposes a com plete cutback of appropriations for Southeast Asia after Decem...

We examine the relationship between social structure and sentiment through the analysis of a large collection of tweets about the Irish Marriage Referendum of 2015. We obtain the sentiment of every tweet with the hashtags #marref and #marriageref that was posted in the days leading to the referendum, and construct networks to aggregate sentiment and use it to study the interactions among users....

This paper uses the proposed UK referendum on the single european currency as a means of investigating the effect of democratising science on the scrutiny of conflicting expert advice. The paper provides a brief overview of the main campaign issues before exploring the organisation and campaign strategies of the main interest groups. The analysis shows that key groups on both sides of the debat...

With the possibility of a referendum on British membership of the Euro some time in 2003 or 2004, the relevance of British public opinion on the Euro is obvious.˚ There has been much public debate about whether Tony Blair could win a referendum despite opinion polls showing a widening gap between those opposed to membership and those in favor. However, there has been little academic research on...