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Universalisti vai suoriutuja : suomalaisten jakautuminen Shalon Schwartzin arvotypologiaan sosiodemografisten taustamuuttujien valossa
2015
Tutkimuksen tehtävänä on selvittää kuinka suomalaiset jakautuvat sosiodemografisten taustamuuttujien mukaan sosiaalipsykologi ja arvotutkija Shalom Schwartzin kymmmenen arvon arvotypologiaan. Sosiodemografisina taustamuuttujina tutkimuksessa ovat mm. ikä, sukupuoli, tulotaso sekä työantajasektori. Tarkoituksena on tarkastella vaikuttavatko nämä sosiodemografiset taustamuuttujat siihen millaisiin arvoihin suomalaiset samaistuvat. Aihe on sosiologisesti tärkeä ja relevantti, sillä viime vuosina valtamediassa yleistynyt keskustelu arvojen kovenemisesta, katoamisesta tai vääristymisestä viestii siitä, että jotain muutosta on tapahtumassa yhteiskunnassa. Arvoja tutkimalla tuotetaan tarkkaa tieto…
Fede e ordalia. Religiosità e cyber community a Catania.
2009
The monograph presents n anthropological analysis of the religious feast os Saint Agata in Sicily (Italy), which is one of the most important in the Mediterranean area, gathering a very big number of faithful people, especially young, who live this commemorative moment like an unloose appointment with the patron saint of Catania, town of the Sicilian region in southern Italy. According to us, it represents not only a religious feast, consecrating the annual encounter between the Saint and her local community, but a kind of modern youth initiation rite.
The importance of being first : Effects of candidates’ list positions in the 2003 Bavarian state election
2006
Abstract Normative theories of democracy do not pay much attention to technicalities of voting, implicitly assuming that these do not influence voting behaviour and election outcomes significantly. However, it is not clear whether this is actually the case. In this article we analyse whether one such technical detail matters for voting behaviour: the ballot position. Based on previous research in the field, we discuss ballot position effects and deduce hypotheses concerning list position effects in the 2003 Bavarian state election. In the empirical analysis, it turns out that ballot positions had a considerable influence on voting behaviour in this election, especially, the top position on …
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…
Assessing uncertainty of voter transitions estimated from aggregated data. Application to the 2017 French presidential election
2020
[EN] Inferring electoral individual behaviour from aggregated data is a very active research area, with ramifications in sociology and political science. A new approach based on linear programming is proposed to estimate voter transitions among parties (or candidates) between two elections. Compared to other linear and quadratic programming models previously published, our approach presents two important innovations. Firstly, it explicitly deals with new entries and exits in the election census without assuming unrealistic hypotheses, enabling a reasonable estimation of vote behaviour of young electors voting for the first time. Secondly, by exploiting the information contained in the model…
Per un approccio retorico alle emozioni. Aristotele, Retorica, II,1-11
2021
Il saggio analizza la sezione della “Retorica” di Aristotele dedicata alle passioni (II, 1-11). Il principale elemento di novità che la prospettiva aristotelica è in grado di introdurre nel dibattito contemporaneo sulle emozioni consiste nella natura specificamente retorica dell’indagine in grado di far emergere, di più e meglio che in altre prospettive, il nesso tra corpo, linguaggio e socialità nell’animale umano.
From equilibrium to chaos and back : methodological evaluation of research of the majority rule
2000
According to the canonical model situated at the heart of the " economic " - or, as the political scientists prefer to call it, rational-choice - theory of (democratic) politics, whenever the matter to be decided raises, or consists of, at least two distinct issues, it is generally impossible to reach a determinate decision by using the majority rule. This problem, referred to as that of disequilibrium, equilibrium instability, or even"chaos", was first underplayed and then deemed ominous to the point of seriously undermining the development prospects of the whole theory. However, more recently, the concern it was the source o f until the 1980s has given way to a state of renewed confidence…
Words and Deeds : Discord between the British Parliament and the Women’s Social and Political Union relating to the First Conciliation Bill of 1910
2021
This article focuses on the question of women’s suffrage in Britain by analyzing the interaction between the House of Commons and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - the radical suffrage organization founded in 1903 and led by the famous Pankhursts. Central to this study are parliamentary debates relating to the Parliamentary Franchise (Women) Bill, better known as the first Conciliation Bill in 1910, as well as the writings published in 1910 in WSPU’s periodical, Votes for Women. To give a fresh angle to existing research on the question of female franchise, the parliamentary aspect is emphasized and connected to the suffragettes, the members of the WSPU. The kind of influence …
Les établissements français de l'Inde et l'Algérie (fin XIXe-XXe siècle) : acculturation juridique, déculturation ou assimilation ?
2008
International audience; La politique coloniale française, à partir de la IIe République, est axée autour d'une volonté assimilationniste dont le corollaire est l'acculturation juridique. Cependant, le maintien des statuts personnels et les résistances des Français d'origine métropolitaine, la limitent au profit d'une association sélective. Ce n'est que lorsque les velléités indépendantistes prennent de l'ampleur que l'assimilation est à nouveau mise en avant, afin de tenter de maintenir les populations locales sous le giron français et de les convaincre des bienfaits de la conception hexagonale du droit. Si la Révolution française a une conception ouverte de la nation, les régimes suivants …
La définition de la nation par la dialectique de la nationalité et de la citoyenneté dans les colonies françaises du XIXe siècle
2009
Nationalité et citoyenneté sont deux notions souvent confondues au XIXe siècle, en raison de l'utilisation du mot « citoyen » indifféremment pour désigner l'homme de la cité, le national ou le titulaire des droits politiques. Cette confusion se retrouve en particulier dans les textes régissant les statuts des habitants des colonies ; or, c'est par leur élaboration que s'est opérée la distinction : les colonisés sont des nationaux, mais tous ne sont pas citoyens. L'assimilation juridique dépend en réalité du jugement porté sur l'évaluation du degré de rattachement des colonisés aux valeurs métropolitaines et suppose une égale aptitude à vivre sous les mêmes lois. Il repose en outre sur une v…