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The influence of Japanese kimono on European bustles and their representation in the paintings of the late nineteenth century
2020
This article investigates the relationship between Europe and Japan at the end of the nineteenth century through the influence of the clothing from both countries. Paintings and portraits from that era are analysed. A typical European clothing piece of that period, the bustle, is proof that little by little the traditional Japanese kimono began to enter the fashion of England and France. In addition, the article also investigates how the Japanese kimono became a luxury item in Europe; however, it was used as a gown-style clothing for the home, losing its original function. At the same time, some kimono and furisode were trimmed and re-sewn as decorative parts of European bustles. The dresse…
Aflame Face. The Sicilian Days of Carlo Levi.
2019
The seventy-three years of Carlo Levi’s (Turin 1902-Rome 1975) arch of life reveal his extraordinary coherency as an intellectual, his political flame, and his aesthetic versatility. His life was an expressive symbiosis with painting and writing: two forms of 'saying' amalgamated as one. If his love for Lucania is distilled from his journey to the South of Italy, his 'Sicilian days', framed in the Fifties, and preserved in his novel Words are Stones, radiate a subterranean and solar Sicily inhabited by violence and by Guttuso’s palette. The absorbing dynamism of the oxymoron governs the whole: that is, a spiritual, geological, social soul of a world, the peasant one, on the threshold of dis…
Candidate localness and voter choice in the 2015 General Election in England
2017
Previous research has demonstrated a significant relationship between the geographical distance from a voter to a candidate and the likelihood of the voter choosing that candidate. However, models of this relationship may be mis- or under-specified, by not taking into account voters’ perceptions of distance or not controlling for other possible factors related to a candidate’s ‘localness’ which may influence vote choice. Using a two-wave panel survey carried out during the 2015 UK General Election, this article tests a more fully specified alternative-specific multinomial probit model of candidate-voter distance. We show that, although the effect size is smaller than in previous tests, cand…
The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public: Evidence From a Panel Study in Four European Democracies
2017
This study explores how news messages carrying parts of the populist ideology contribute to a polarization of public opinion about populism. It combines a content analysis of news coverage on two policy areas (N = 7,119 stories) with a two-wave panel survey (N = 2,338) in four European metropolitan regions (Berlin, Paris, London, and Zurich). In three regions, unopposed media messages with a populist stance have a conditional effect on populist attitudes that depends on prior convictions. A higher dose of exposure to populist news coverage enhances both prior agreement and disagreement with populism. Although the observed interaction patterns vary between regions, the general picture sugges…
Vote Transfers, Thwarted Voters and Newcomers in the 2009 Presidential Runoff in Romania
2011
Abstract This article investigates the role of thwarted voters and newcomers in setting the result of the December 6th, 2009 presidential runoff in Romania. For this purpose it employs panel survey data from the Romanian Election Studies, collected across three waves: pre-election, between the two rounds, post-election. Initially, it draws a picture of the main evolutions in turnout and vote between the first and the second round, with a special emphasis on vote transfers and risks associated to turnout and pro-winner overreporting. Then it analyzes the thwarted voters and their rationalities of making second-order electoral choices in the presidential runoff. The influence of campaign deve…
Social Media as a Campaigning Tool in Elections: Theoretical Considerations and State of Research
2021
To extend their reach to supporters and voters, three election campaign functions are key to political actors: information, interaction and mobilisation. We argue that these three functions are interrelated and function most successfully through interrelationship. Thus, the distinction between top-down and bottom-up communication appears to be rather artificial in the context of online campaigns. In campaign practice, both directions are rather closely linked. Our theoretical framework shows how Facebook can be used specifically to realise the three key functions and provides the background for the following chapters for analysing how political parties actually use Facebook in European Parl…
Moros y cristianos. De la batalla festiva a la discursiva
2008
Hace poco más de un año se acordaba en España admitir a trámite en el Congreso de los Diputados la proposición no de ley del Grupo Parlamentario Popular relativa a la proclamación de las "fiestas de moros y cristianos" como obras maestras del patrimonio oral e inmaterial de la humanidad. La solicitud se contextualiza en la democratización y universalización que el patrimonio ha experimentado y se explica por la vertiente cada vez más mercantilista de los procesos de patrimonialización. En el caso que nos ocupa la presentación estuvo envuelta en una interesante discusión política sobre la "tradición", la "libertad" y la "amenaza". Este artículo analiza la polémica sobre estas fiestas y su pr…
INVESTIGATION OF ELECTION RESULTS, NUMBERS OF PARTY MEMBERS, AND OPINION POLLS IN GERMANY
2008
Our publication focuses on two different but related topics in politics: in the first part of this publication, we investigate the influence of election results in the elections for the parliaments of the German states and for the German Diet (federal parliament) on the member numbers of the largest parties in the various states. In the second part of this publication, we consider the correlations between opinion polls and election results and focus on the question whether real election results can be predicted by opinion polls.
Transformaciones y rasgos discursivos del spot electoral en los comicios generales del 26J en España
2021
El spot electoral ha encontrado en las redes sociales un marco permanentemente abierto de difusión, que va más allá del espacio y del tiempo electoral regulado. En este artículo se presenta un análisis de los anuncios difundidos por los partidos con mayor representación parlamentaria (PP, PSOE, Unidos Podemos y Ciudadanos) en el Congreso de los Diputados en el período previo a las elecciones que dieron lugar a la XII Legislatura en España. Mediante el análisis descriptivo y el análisis de contenido, se examinaron los spots difundidos en YouTube para las elecciones generales del 26 de junio de 2016 por las formaciones políticas aludidas. Entre los resultados más destacados se observa un aume…
Ara es l’hora? The Approach of the Catalan Political Scene to Independence Issues
2016
The political situation in Catalonia during the last months is changing almost daily. Catalan nationalist movements consistently continue their efforts to create an independent state. As a result, every vote – an unofficial plebiscite, local elections or elections to the Catalan parliament – is treated like a referendum on the matter of independence. The Catalan actions that are ever more faster and further-reaching meet with a growing opposition of the central government, threatening the Catalan authorities with a number of sanctions in case of taking further, concrete steps to break away from Spain. Although, from the outside, the Catalan independence parties seem to be a monolith, the si…