The Brexit vote: a divided nation, a divided continent

A nation divided.

Brexit: the decision of a divided country.

On the same day that the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, huge rises in UK death rates were reported. These rises followed the austerity policies enacted by the 2010 coalition government. Self reported health was a key component of David Cameron’s wellbeing index, and it has declined in every year of his premiership, most rapidly towards the end. In March 2016 the Office for National Stati...

A Nation Divided? Price and Output Dynamics in English Regions

In this paper we estimate a VECM model for inflation and output growth in different English regions, allowing for interactions between variables and between regions. The model permits the estimation not only of the degree of inter-regional correlation of price and output innovations, but also of the degree of heterogeneity in the dynamics of regional responses to these innovations. Although reg...

Refugee Without Refuge: Wasim, Phillip Adams, and a Nation Divided

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 1 pp. 7–18 Address for correspondence: Dr Anne Pedersen, School of Psychology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia. E-mail: A.Pedersen@murdoch. edu.au or Dr Farida Fozdar, Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] The present study develops previous research that...

Does the Alternative Vote Foster Moderation in Ethnically Divided

Using insights from social choice theory, particularly Black’s concept of single-peaked preferences and Downs’s median-voter model, the authors previously investigated the theoretical impact of the alternative vote system (AV) on the success of moderate parties in an ethnically bipolar society. Focusing on the simplest case, that with one moderate and one extremist ethnic party associated with ...