scholarly journals Quantifying Media Influence and Partisan Attention on Twitter During the UK EU Referendum

2018 ◽  
pp. 274-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Gorrell ◽  
Ian Roberts ◽  
Mark A. Greenwood ◽  
Mehmet E. Bakir ◽  
Benedetta Iavarone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Influence ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals A Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Discursive Representation of Immigration in the EU Referendum Debate

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebtisam Saleh Aluthman
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Concordance Analysis ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This paper presents a critical account of the representation of immigration in the Brexit corpus—a collective corpus of 108,452,923 words compiled mostly from blogs, tweets, and daily news related to Brexit debate. The study follows the methodological synergy approach proposed by Baker et al. (2008), a heuristic methodological approach that combines methods of discourse analysis and corpus-assisted statistical tools including keyword, collocation, and concordance analysis. Drawing on this methodological synergy approach, the investigation yields significant findings contextualized within the socio-economic-political context of the European Union (EU) leave referendum to trace how the issue of immigration is represented in the discourses of the Remain and Leave campaigns. The frequency results show that immigration is one of the most salient topics in the Brexit corpus. Concordance analysis of the word immigrants and collocation investigation of the word immigration reveal opposing attitudes toward immigration in the EU referendum debate. The analysis uncovers negative attitudes toward the uncontrolled flow of immigrants from other EU countries and public concerns about immigrants' negative impacts on wages, education, and health services. Other findings reveal positive attitudes toward immigrants emphasizing their positive contributions to the UK economy. The study concludes with an argument of the significant association between the political and socio-economic ideologies of a particular society and the language communicated in its media.

Sovereignty, Devolution and the English Constitution

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Akash Paun
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Political Disaffection ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

This chapter argues that the UK territorial constitution rests upon a profound ambiguity about its central principles. Parliamentary sovereignty remains at the core of how the English understand their constitution. Yet in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, alternative doctrines have flourished, especially since devolution, which conceded the right of each nation to determine its own form of government (popular sovereignty) and established a non-majoritarian system of power-sharing and cross-border governance in (Northern) Ireland. These developments imply that the UK is a voluntary ‘family of nations’ not a unitary state. Yet Westminster has never formally conceded this point and devolution could in theory be reversed by a simple parliamentary majority. Constructive ambiguity has been retained. However, the historic tendency to allow constitutional theory and practice to diverge may be unsustainable in the light of the EU referendum result and the wider mood of English political disaffection that Brexit has tapped into.

Land of Hope and Enterprise

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Alex Brummer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the contribution of recognized activities that make the UK economy, such as the progress in research, pharmaceuticals, technology, software, and innovation that can be traced back to the intellectual powerhouses of UK's institutions of higher learning. It recounts the UK's love–hate relationship with the City of London, wherein the banks are still blamed for the financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the subsequent stagnation and fall in incomes. It also cites finance as the highest UK earner of overseas income and is a magnet for international institutions. The chapter describes London as the biggest financial centre outside New York and has attracted even greater numbers of skilled financial traders since the EU referendum result of 2016. It explains how the UK financial sector accommodated trading, provided credit, and raised new capital for troubled firms and those seeking post-Covid-19 opportunities.

scholarly journals A multiplicative process for generating a beta-like survival function with application to the UK 2016 EU referendum results

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1750132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Fenner ◽  
Eric Kaufmann ◽  
Mark Levene ◽  
George Loizou
Keyword(s):  
Linear Models ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Extreme Values ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Survival Function ◽  
Ecological Inference ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Election Forecasting ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk

Human dynamics and sociophysics suggest statistical models that may explain and provide us with better insight into social phenomena. Contextual and selection effects tend to produce extreme values in the tails of rank-ordered distributions of both census data and district-level election outcomes. Models that account for this nonlinearity generally outperform linear models. Fitting nonlinear functions based on rank-ordering census and election data therefore improves the fit of aggregate voting models. This may help improve ecological inference, as well as election forecasting in majoritarian systems. We propose a generative multiplicative decrease model that gives rise to a rank-order distribution and facilitates the analysis of the recent UK EU referendum results. We supply empirical evidence that the beta-like survival function, which can be generated directly from our model, is a close fit to the referendum results, and also may have predictive value when covariate data are available.

Eu Referendum in the UK: The Regional Dimension

2016 ◽  
Vol 302 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Mawdsley
Keyword(s):  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk

UK's Cameron likely to go for EU referendum in 2016

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
German Government ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Subject The government's preferred timetable for the UK referendum on EU membership. Significance The EU membership referendum will be a major event in both EU and UK political and commercial life. Prime Minister David Cameron's official position is that the poll could take place any time before end-2017. He is less concerned about the likely outcome of the referendum, which he is confident will produce an 'in' result, than about achieving a margin in favour of membership that decisively settles the question and minimises the damage to the Conservative Party arising from the process. Impacts The most likely referendum date is September 15, 2016. This timetable would make the key renegotiation period the first half of 2016, when the sympathetic Dutch government chairs the EU Council. The German government would also prefer the UK referendum to be dealt with relatively quickly.

'Juncker Plan' could mean EU investment bulge

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Investment Plan ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
Commission President ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Subject The possible economic impact of the EU investment plan (the 'Juncker Plan'). Significance The EU investment plan launched by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker just over a year ago has made a slow start. This will encourage doubts that have existed since the scheme's inception about its operation and likely impact. Impacts Even by 2020, the EU economy will still probably require every effort to boost growth and make up for lost investment. Given continuing strong demand for high-grade bonds and equity investments, it should be possible to achieve the fundraising target. The plan could become a vehicle for Chinese investment into the EU: China is talking of 5-10 billion euros in future investments. The geographical distribution of funded projects could be politically sensitive within the EU. The plan could come under scrutiny during the UK EU referendum campaign; UK projects may come too late to have an impact before the vote.

scholarly journals Predicting the Brexit Vote by Tracking and Classifying Public Opinion Using Twitter Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Cesar Amador Diaz Lopez ◽  
Sofia Collignon-Delmar ◽  
Kenneth Benoit ◽  
Akitaka Matsuo
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Training Set ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Training Sets

AbstractWe use 23M Tweets related to the EU referendum in the UK to predict the Brexit vote. In particular, we use user-generated labels known as hashtags to build training sets related to the Leave/Remain campaign. Next, we train SVMs in order to classify Tweets. Finally, we compare our results to Internet and telephone polls. This approach not only allows to reduce the time of hand-coding data to create a training set, but also achieves high level of correlations with Internet polls. Our results suggest that Twitter data may be a suitable substitute for Internet polls and may be a useful complement for telephone polls. We also discuss the reach and limitations of this method.

Germany to wait out major EU decisions until post-2017

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Euro Area ◽  
Debt Relief ◽  
French Elections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Greek Crisis ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Party Family ◽  
The Imf

Significance The Greek crisis has exposed Germany's euro-area dominance more clearly than ever -- to both Germany's partners and Germany, and to the discomfort of both. Merkel's decisions in the crisis have reflected in part her wish to buy time until after the 2017 German and French elections, and her belief in the continuing importance of the Franco-German relationship. Impacts Belying German hopes the three-year Greek deal will buy time until after 2017, October could see a new clash over debt relief and the IMF. Given the alternatives in Paris, Merkel will hope more strongly than usual for a new French president from her own party family. Waiting for stronger leadership in Paris could risk fuelling French eurosceptics' charges that France lacks influence. Seeing major 'future EU' initiatives only after the 2017 German and French polls, Berlin would like the UK EU referendum also over by then. Germany's wish to postpone major EU reforms will limit the scope of any pre-referendum deal with London.

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