Analysing vote-choice in a multinational state: national identity and territorial differentiation in the 2016 Brexit vote

Brexit vote: absolute numbers are misleading.

As political scientists, we are not familiar with the habits of medical journals. In most analyses of voting behaviour it’s common to focus on the relative risk of voting for a party or an outcome: an analysis that focuses on absolute numbers is therefore liable to mislead. If medical journals also tend to focus on relative risks then Dorling’s analysis is also liable to mislead, notwithstandin...

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Why the Poor Vote in India: “If I Don’t Vote, I Am Dead to the State”

Our empirical research in India shows the poor and the non-poor report different motivations for voting. The poor say they turn out to vote because it is their right while the non-poor report they vote because they expect material benefits from the state, some kind of access to the state, or because voting is their civic duty. We attribute the different reasons for voting offered by the poor an...

Vote on How We Vote ?

Leslie matrices are taught as a method of modeling populations in a discrete-time fashion with more detail in the tracking of age groups within the population. Leslie matrices have limited use in the actual modeling of populations, since when the age groups are summed, it is basically equivalent to discrete-time modeling assuming exponential population growth. The logistic model of population g...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...