Search results for "Politics"

Turkey's bid for EU membership, contrasting views of public opinion, and vote choice. Evidence from the 2005 German federal election

2008

Abstract This paper examines the effects of attitudes toward Turkey's entry into the European Union on vote choice in the 2005 federal election in Germany. Building on prior research, the paper contrasts the elitist and the policy voting view. The evidence shows that citizens' opinions about Turkey's accession to the European Union do not merely reflect group-memberships and political predispositions. They also play a role in influencing voting behaviour with support of Turkey's entry raising the likelihood to vote for the SPD or the Greens while reducing the probability to cast a vote for right-wing parties, the CDU/CSU and the FDP. Finally, low educated voters are disproportionately susce…

Systematic review of research on fair play and sporting competition

2020

The aim of this study was to provide an international panoramic of fair play and sporting competition; identifying, categorising and analysing the scientific articles about this topic. Using a syst...

"Muddle instead of music" in 1936: cataclysm of musical administration

2010

Ārlietu ministriju pārveide Baltijas un Skandināvijas valstīs 2004.-2012.gadā

2015

Promocijas darbā ir analizēta ārlietu ministriju pārveide un izmaiņu raksturs Baltijas valstīs (Igaunijā, Latvijā un Lietuvā) un Skandināvijas valstīs (Dānijā, Norvēģijā un Zviedrijā). Izmantojot novatorisku pieeju diplomātijas studijās, darbā ir meklētas atbildes uz jautājumu, kā sešu viena reģiona valstu ārlietu ministrijas pielāgojas starptautiskās sistēmas transformācijai 21. gadsimtā. Empīriskā materiāla pamatā ir ārpolitikas pārskati, ziņojumi un gadagrāmatas, kā arī padziļinātas intervijas ar diplomātiem un ārpolitikas ekspertiem. Balstoties uz septiņiem funkcionālo pārmaiņu kritērijiem, darbā tiek secināts, ka Baltijas un Skandināvijas valstu ārlietu ministrijas ir pilnībā atteikušā…

Cilvēkdrošība kā nacionālā interese ārpolitikā: Japānas, Kanādas un Norvēģijas gadījumu analīze.

2019

Promocijas darba “Cilvēkdrošība kā nacionālā interese ārpolitikā: Japānas, Kanādas un Norvēģijas gadījumu analīze” mērķis ir caur konstruktīvisma perspektīvu izanalizēt un salīdzināt trīs valstu motīvus veidot uz cilvēkdrošību balstītu ārpolitiku un sniegt ārvalstu palīdzību katastrofu kontekstā periodā no 1995. līdz 2015. gadam. Darba teorētiskais modelis paredz, ka cilvēkdrošība kļūst par ārpolitikas prioritāti, ja atbilst valstu objektīvajām un subjektīvajām interesēm un starptautiskajām normām. Motīvu pētniecība ir veikta ar rāmējumu analīzi politikas dokumentos un intervijās. Tiek secināts, ka valstu motīvi palīdzēt citiem katru reizi mainās, un visos trīs gadījumos tie iekļāva: drošīb…

Let Me in! The Affirmation of a Radical “Other”

2021

In the preceding chapters, we carefully revised the history of colonial expeditions, the intersection of the native “Other” with science, and the evolution of leisure travels and the consolidation of the tourism industry. We make the point that after the terrorist attacks in 2001 in the US, Western civilization entered a state of crisis which gradually tended to demonize the non-Western “Other”. These chapters acted as conceptual platforms that guided readers to understand the role played by hospitality in the configuration of the modern nation-state. Although illustrative to some extent, these chapters lacked an empirical approach. This chapter, complementarily, keeps an empirically based …

Spanish electoral archive. SEA database

2021

This paper introduces the SEA database (acronym for Spanish Electoral Archive). SEA brings together the most complete public repository available to date on Spanish election outcomes. SEA holds all the results recorded from the electoral processes of General (1979–2019), Regional (1989–2021), Local (1979–2019) and European Parliamentary (1987–2019) elections held in Spain since the restoration of democracy in the late 70 s, in addition to other data sets with electoral content. The data are offered for free and is presented in a homogeneous and friendly format. Most of the databases are available for download with data from various electoral levels, including from the ballot box level. This…

From the kinetic theory of active particles to the modeling of social behaviors and politics

2007

This paper deals with the modeling of complex social systems by methods of the mathematical kinetic theory for active particles. Specifically, a recent model by the last two authors is analyzed from the social sciences point of view. The model shows, despite its simplicity, some interesting features. In particular, this paper investigates the ability of the model to describe how a social politics and the disposable overall wealth may have a relevant influence towards the trend of the wealth distribution. The paper also outlines various research perspectives.

Modeling interactions between political parties and electors

2017

In this paper we extend some recent results on an operatorial approach to the description of alliances between political parties interacting among themselves and with a basin of electors. In particular, we propose and compare three different models, deducing the dynamics of their related {\em decision functions}, i.e. the attitude of each party to form or not an alliance. In the first model the interactions between each party and their electors are considered. We show that these interactions drive the decision functions towards certain asymptotic values depending on the electors only: this is the {\em perfect party}, which behaves following the electors' suggestions. The second model is an …

First results on applying a non-linear effect formalism to alliances between political parties and buy and sell dynamics

2016

We discuss a non linear extension of a model of alliances in politics, recently proposed by one of us. The model is constructed in terms of operators, describing the \emph{interest} of three parties to form, or not, some political alliance with the other parties. The time evolution of what we call \emph{the decision functions} is deduced by introducing a suitable hamiltonian, which describes the main effects of the interactions of the parties amongst themselves and with their \emph{environments}, {which are }generated by their electors and by people who still have no clear {idea }for which party to vote (or even if to vote). The hamiltonian contains some non-linear effects, which takes into…