Mapping party support for EU referendums after Brexit: results from an expert survey

Subject .This article discusses the need to bring into line with the future activities of specialists the content of their preparation, the formation of a system model of higher education, which takes into account today's and prospective requirements of the labor market. Objectives. The article aims to research the labor market in four regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation: the Republic of Tatarstan, Mari El Republic, Chuvash Republic, and the Ulyanovsk oblast, as well as discuss problems and prospects of interaction of universities with enterprises and organizations of these regions. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, and in-depth expert survey. Results. The article analyzes the state of regional labor markets, presents the results of the expert survey of labor market representatives and heads of the regional education system, and it defines possible ways of harmonizing the interaction of universities with the labor market. Conclusions. The article notes that although the number of employed with higher education is growing, at the same time there is a shortage of highly qualified personnel in certain professions, on the one hand, and unskilled workers, on the other. Also, the article says that the universities do not prepare the necessary for the regions specialists in a number of professions or they provide a set of competencies different from the requirements of the labor market, so it is necessary to form and develop effective directions of cooperation between educational institutions and employers.

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Expert survey and analysis of the results

Industrial laboratory Diagnostics of materials ◽

10.26896/1028-6861-2019-85-7-73-82 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 85 (7) ◽

pp. 73-82

Author(s):

Vladimir O. Tolcheev

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Research University ◽

Statistical Processing ◽

Educational Process ◽

Expert Survey ◽

Educational Modules ◽

Training Modules ◽

Engineering Institute ◽

Good Agreement ◽

Statistical Criteria

The issues of organizing an expert survey and carrying out statistical processing and analysis of the results are considered. The experts are the fifth-year students undergoing training at the Department of Management and Informatics «Moscow Power Engineering Institute» of the National Research University. The goal of the survey is revealing the disciplines that are most useful for employment in their specialty. We discuss the special features of the survey and a concept of «work in the specialty», with due regard for statistical reliability of the results. Data of written questionnaire gained in 2018 were processed and analyzed using cluster analysis (construction of dendrograms and application of the K-means method) and non-parametric statistical criteria (Friedman and Mann – Whitney – Wilcoxon). Data processing is implemented in the program STATISTICA. The analysis is carried out to reveal significant differences between the educational courses and assess the degree of consistency of the respondents to divide them into clusters that unite the students with similar judgments. Data analysis revealed that experts’ estimates in 2018 are in fairly good agreement with the estimates of previous studies; among the respondents there are three coalitions corresponding to the training modules «Software», «Management Theory», «Data Analysis»; the overall consistency of students in the two groups is very low (and, on the contrary, high in the identified clusters); grades are homogeneous and do not depend on training groups (and employment – unemployment of the respondents). The obtained results allow us to address a number of important questions regarding the ways of improving the educational process, e.g., to optimize yearly course hours for different educational modules.

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Does the Ideological Dispersion of Parties Mediate the Electoral Impact of Valence? A Cross-National Study of Party Support in Nine Western European Democracies

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1678142 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Clark ◽

Debra Lynn Leiter

Keyword(s):

National Study ◽

Electoral Impact ◽

Western European ◽

Party Support ◽

Cross National Study ◽

Cross National

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COVID-19 and transport: Findings from a world-wide expert survey

Transport Policy ◽

10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.01.011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 103 ◽

pp. 68-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Junyi Zhang ◽

Yoshitsugu Hayashi ◽

Lawrence D. Frank

Keyword(s):

World Wide ◽

Expert Survey

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The relationship between diffuse support for democracy and governing party support in a hybrid regime: evidence with four representative samples from Turkey

Turkish Studies ◽

10.1080/14683849.2021.1894137 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Berna Öney ◽

M. Murat Ardag

Keyword(s):

Support For Democracy ◽

Diffuse Support ◽

Party Support ◽

Hybrid Regime ◽

The Relationship ◽

Representative Samples

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Parties’ Preferences for Office and Policy Goals

Games ◽

10.3390/g12010006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 6

Author(s):

Anna Bassi

Keyword(s):

Rational Choice ◽

Choice Models ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Government Formation ◽

Expert Survey ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Preference Ratings ◽

The Government ◽

Party Behavior ◽

Survey Protocol

Although parties’ preferences for office and policy goals have been featured by many rational choice models of party behavior and a majority of coalition theories, the literature still lacks a measure and a comprehensive analysis of how parties’ preferences vary among parties and across countries. This study aims to fill this gap by presenting the results of an original expert survey protocol, which finds that parties pursue both goals simultaneously as office is sought both as and an end and as a means to affect policy, and that the degree to which they prefer policy versus office objectives varies across parties and countries. I provide an application of the preference ratings for policy versus office in the context of government formation, by using the ratings to solve for and predict the equilibrium coalition that should have formed in Spain after the 2015 elections. The government predicted by the model matches the government that formed, providing evidence of the ability of the preference ratings to generate reliable predictions of the composition of government coalitions.

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