This research note has two functions. It first sets the scene for this special issue using 2020 Irish National Election Study (INES), which comprises several discrete data sets. The also reports on findings from one part of INES – an online poll voters polling day, included a battery questions related to attitudes and behaviours relevant national politics. provides empirical analysis vote choic...

Research suggests that the costs of international conflict (e.g. casualties) alter public opinion, executive approval and policy positions of elected officials. However, do casualties affect voting in terms of aggregate outcomes and individual vote choices? This article examines how casualties from interstate conflicts affect voter behaviour, specifically incumbent vote share. Using the investm...

Previously we and others have shown evidence for genetic influences on political attitudes and sociodemographic indicators (Martin 1987; Posner et al. 1996; Truett et al. 1992; Eaves et al. 1999). However, the nature of the relationship between political attitudes, social indictors and voting behavior has not been investigated. While heritability estimates for social and political attitudes hav...

Following the seminal work of M. Culler and P. Shalen [Culler & Shalen, 1983], and that of A. Casson [Akbulut & McCarthy, 1990], the theory of representation and character varieties of 3-manifolds has come to be recognized as a powerful tool, and has duly assumed an important place in low-dimensional topology. Among the many papers that have appeared in this context, we mention [Culler et al., ...