scholarly journals Learning about the unknown Spitzenkandidaten: The role of media exposure during the 2019 European Parliament elections

2021 ◽  
pp. 146511652110511
Author(s):  
Simon Richter ◽  
Sebastian Stier
Keyword(s):  
Media Exposure ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Online News ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Panel Surveys ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
European Parliament Elections

The Spitzenkandidaten were meant to personalize European Parliament elections. This paper asks whether and through which channels the lead candidates were actually able to make themselves known among voters – a necessary precondition for any electoral effect. Combining panel surveys and online tracking data, the study explores candidate learning during the German 2019 European Parliament election campaign and relates learning to different types of news exposure, with a special focus on online news. The results show that learning was limited and unevenly distributed across candidates. However exposure to candidate-specific online news and most types of offline news helped to acquire knowledge. The findings imply that Spitzenkandidaten stick to voters’ minds when they get exposed to them, but that exposure is infrequent in high-choice media environments.

Green Flash in the Croatian Pan: Green Party Survival in Post-socialist Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 840-862
Author(s):  
Danijela Dolenec ◽  
Daniela Širinić
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Public Support ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Green Party ◽  
Niche Parties ◽  
Party Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
European Parliament Elections

This article explores the subject matter of new political parties’ survival by analysing the recent trajectory of the Green party ORaH in Croatia. ORaH emerged in October 2013; it won 9.4 percent of the vote at the 2014 European Parliament election and subsequently rose to 18.5 percent of public support in October 2014, only to collapse to 1.7 percent of the vote at the parliamentary election held in November 2015. In order to explain ORaH’s initial meteoric rise and its later equally rapid demise, we will employ studies on new and niche parties while we further elaborate our analysis of ORaH’s programme by profiling ORaH’s voter base. We also address a recurrent weakness in political party research by analysing the role of the European level of competition in increasing the chances of a new party’s survival by developing a framework that better integrates domestic and international dynamics of political party development. Our main finding is that despite its success in the 2014 European Parliament elections, and even though its electorate shares important features of the European Green voter, ORaH failed to secure parliamentary representation because of the inability of the party’s leadership to steer the party away from its initial contender status and define OraH’s policy niche.

scholarly journals Introduction: How Different Were the European Elections of 2014?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Van der Brug ◽  
Katjana Gattermann ◽  
Claes H. De Vreese
Keyword(s):  
European Parliament ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Electoral Behaviour ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
The Eu

This issue brings together papers that focus on the question of whether and in which ways the 2014 European Parliament elections were different from previous ones. This is important from the point of view of emerging scholarship on changes in the EU and from the point of view of the self-proclaimed ‘This time it’s different!’ slogan from the Parliament. The papers centre around three themes: 1) the role of the <em>Spitzenkandidaten</em>, 2) media and voters, and 3) electoral behaviour.

scholarly journals When Social Media Doesn’t Determine All: The Topics and Narratives of Latvian Political Parties on Facebook During the 2019 European Parliament Elections Campaign

Tripodos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 151-165
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Pričins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Research Period

Over the last decade, the implementation of campaigns by political parties and their candidates on social media platforms has become an integral part of political communication. Political communication studies have long indicated that elections are becoming personalized, with more focus on party leaders or individual candidates. But studies on communication by political parties to understand the identity of parties and their potential in communication with voters remain relevant. The aim of the paper is to analyse the visual election materials of the political parties from Latvia on the social network Facebook during the 2019 European Parliament (EP) election campaign. The research period is two weeks before elections. The subject of the study is election materials on Facebook accounts of the parties representing the national parliament of Latvia. A codebook for analysis has been developed, containing common and specific variables, designed to explore the verbal and visual dimensions. The results of the study allow us to draw conclusions about the changing success of new populist and traditional parties, as well as to look at the role of Facebook in elections in a little-studied country.

Role of Graph Theory in Computational Neuroscience

2022 ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Hitesh Marwaha ◽  
Anurag Sharma ◽  
Vikrant Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Computational Neuroscience ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Vertex Centrality

Neuroscience is the study of the brain and its impact on behavior and cognitive functions. Computational neuroscience is the subfield that deals with the study of the ability of the brain to think and compute. It also analyzes various electrical and chemical signals that take place in the brain to represent and process the information. In this chapter, a special focus will be given on the processing of signals by the brain to solve the problems. In the second section of the chapter, the role of graph theory is discussed to analyze the pattern of neurons. Graph-based analysis reveals meaningful information about the topological architecture of human brain networks. The graph-based analysis also discloses the networks in which most nodes are not neighbors of each other but can be reached from every other node by a small number of steps. In the end, it is concluded that by using the various operations of graph theory, the vertex centrality, betweenness, etc. can be computed to identify the dominant neurons for solving different types of computational problems.

APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE METHODS IN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ACCORDING TO TEACHERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Nely Boiadjieva ◽  
◽  
Milena Velikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Know How ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Different Types

The report analyzes the results of an empirical study conducted in 2019 with 562 teachers from different types of schools, settlements in Bulgaria and stages of education. Their views and attitude to the application of innovative methods in school activities – curricular, extracurricular and others were monitored. Based on the collected data, a profile of the modern teacher as a school innovator was outlined. The report include information about: what forms, methods and tools teachers use in their practice; what innovative methods they know, how often apply them and what motivated them; whether the innovative methods help in the student’s learning process; the extent to which innovative teaching methods increase the quality of learning content. A special focus in the study was placed on the role of teacher’s education and proffesional qualification for the application of innovative methods, as well as school management for the introduction of innovations and support to teachers in this process.

Environmental Forensic Examinations in Poland: a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Zębek ◽  
Denis Solodov
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Animal World ◽  
Environmental Crimes

Abstract In environmental criminal cases, forensic examinations are of particular relevance and create the basis for judicial decisions. In the article, four criminal cases concerning different types of environmental crimes were described to show current challenges and shortcomings in the area of environmental protection through criminal law in Poland, and the role of the experts in the process of proof. Special attention was paid to the forensic examinations of the plant and animal world within Nature 2000 sites, which are appeared to be the most challenging. The authors also addressed the issue of the compliance of domestic criminal law and its enforcement with the provisions of the Directive 2008/99/ec of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on the protection of the environment through criminal law.

Potential Uses of Vinegar as a Medicine and Related in vivo Mechanisms

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 127-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeshan Ali ◽  
Zhenbin Wang ◽  
Rai Muhammad Amir ◽  
Shoaib Younas ◽  
Asif Wali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Structure ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Current Review ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Positive Effect

While the use of vinegar to fi ght against infections and other crucial conditions dates back to Hippocrates, recent research has found that vinegar consumption has a positive effect on biomarkers for diabetes, cancer, and heart diseases. Different types of vinegar have been used in the world during different time periods. Vinegar is produced by a fermentation process. Foods with a high content of carbohydrates are a good source of vinegar. Review of the results of different studies performed on vinegar components reveals that the daily use of these components has a healthy impact on the physiological and chemical structure of the human body. During the era of Hippocrates, people used vinegar as a medicine to treat wounds, which means that vinegar is one of the ancient foods used as folk medicine. The purpose of the current review paper is to provide a detailed summary of the outcome of previous studies emphasizing the role of vinegar in treatment of different diseases both in acute and chronic conditions, its in vivo mechanism and the active role of different bacteria.

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