scholarly journals The Electoral Geography of the 2013 Election: Voting patterns in the states and regions for the Lower House

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Jaensch ◽  
Narelle Miragliotta ◽  
Rae Wear
Keyword(s):  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Lower House

Featural and Configural Processing of Faces and Houses in Matched Dyslexic and Typical Readers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahareh Jozranjbar ◽  
Arni Kristjansson ◽  
Heida Maria Sigurdardottir
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Visual Recognition ◽  
Reading Deficits ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Configural Information ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Single Process ◽  
Processing Mechanisms

While dyslexia is typically described as a phonological deficit, recent evidence suggests that ventral stream regions, important for visual categorization and object recognition, are hypoactive in dyslexic readers who might accordingly show visual recognition deficits. By manipulating featural and configural information of faces and houses, we investigated whether dyslexic readers are disadvantaged at recognizing certain object classes or utilizing particular visual processing mechanisms. Dyslexic readers found it harder to recognize objects (houses), suggesting that visual problems in dyslexia are not completely domain-specific. Mean accuracy for faces was equivalent in the two groups, compatible with domain-specificity in face processing. While face recognition abilities correlated with reading ability, lower house accuracy was nonetheless related to reading difficulties even when accuracy for faces was kept constant, suggesting a specific relationship between visual word recognition and the recognition of non-face objects. Representational similarity analyses (RSA) revealed that featural and configural processes were clearly separable in typical readers, while dyslexic readers appeared to rely on a single process. This occurred for both faces and houses and was not restricted to particular visual categories. We speculate that reading deficits in some dyslexic readers reflect their reliance on a single process for object recognition.

Anglo-American electoral geography: the emergence of a sub-discipline

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-452
Author(s):  
Charles J. Pattie ◽  
Ron J. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Anglo American

Not transaction but service? Interrogating the multiple surrogacy narratives in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212096490
Author(s):  
Sucharita Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Secondary Research ◽  
Commercial Surrogacy ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Media Texts

The asymmetrical commercial surrogacy industry in India has been subject to media scrutiny and scholarly debate focusing on biomedical, legal, ethical and feminist concerns. Since 2016, this discourse has taken a contested turn, as the new Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill bans commercial surrogacy and allows only altruistic surrogacy for heteronormative, married, clinically-infertile Indian couples/women. This Bill has been passed by Parliament’s lower house, but is still being debated in the upper house. One recurrent trope underpinning the surrogacy rhetoric is the Hindu figuration of the sacrificing mother, as iconified in the mythical Yashoda. Altruistic surrogacy is usually framed as an ethical extension of selfless motherhood; and commercial surrogacy stakeholders also use the same trope to validate surrogacy. This article critiques how Hindu constructs of motherhood impact the rhetoric and politics of surrogacy in India. Using a three-part analysis, the author discusses a Hindu surrogacy myth, investigates government and media texts on the new Bill, and explores select testimonials of surrogates (sourced through secondary research). The research question in the article is: how are the rights of surrogates being addressed (or diminished) through the use of Hindu motherhood tropes and the framing of surrogacy as gift-giving or unpaid service rather than transaction?

A Dividing Nation? An Initial Exploration of the Changing Electoral Geography of Great Britain, 1979–1987

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1001-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Johnston ◽  
C J Pattie
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Electoral Geography ◽  
Occupational Class ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Initial Exploration

Commentators have suggested an increased spatial polarisation in voting behaviour within Great Britain over recent decades. Analyses designed to evaluate this suggestion for the period 1979–87 are reported. Entropy-maximising procedures were used to produce estimates of voting by occupational class at the 1979, 1983, and 1987 general elections; they show very clear patterns of increased polarisation over the period.

Bicameralism in a Unitary State

2021 ◽  
pp. 329-348
Author(s):  
Mary C. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Unitary State ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Complex Manner

This chapter describes, explains, and analyses the Irish Senate (officially Seanad Éireann). It details the birth and evolution of the bicameral principle in Ireland and provides an account of its key features, including its vocational character and complex electoral arrangements. The chapter also outlines the role, powers, and functions of Seanad Éireann and identifies the key criticisms of this body. These include the institution’s subservience to the lower house, the complex manner in which members are elected and appointed, and the limited nature of vocational representation in the Seanad. Campaigns for reform and the 2013 abolition referendum are discussed with reference to the several reform proposals of varying depth and substance that appeared over the decades.

Parliamentary Accountability and Reform

2021 ◽  
pp. 310-329
Author(s):  
Muiris MacCarthaigh
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
General Election ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Parliamentary Systems ◽  
The Government ◽  
Irish Politics

The assertion that the Irish parliament, Oireachtas Éireann, or more specifically its lower house Dáil Éireann, is poor at if not incapable of fulfilling its constitutional role of holding the government to account is an established feature of the study of Irish politics. In this chapter, the development of parliamentary accountability is examined in constitutional and comparative contexts. This is achieved by first looking at the idea of accountability and its manifestation within the Westminster family of parliamentary systems, including the Oireachtas. The chapter examines the three principal methods through which executive accountability to Dáil Éireann has been pursued, namely debates, questions, and, more recently, committees. An analysis of the parliamentary reforms that have been proposed and introduced to address perceived accountability deficits is then presented. In a final section, important changes that resulted from the outcome of the 2016 general election for the operation of parliamentary accountability are examined.

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