scholarly journals Hashtag Politics: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis of the 2015 Canadian Federal Election

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Mullins ◽  
Adam Epp
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
New Democratic Party

We developed a split plot design model for analysis of sentiment toward federal political parties on the social media platform Twitter in the weeks prior to the 2015 Canadian Federal Election. Data was collected from Twitter’s Application Programming Interface (API) via statistical program R. We scored the sentiment of each Twitter message referring to the parties and tested using ANOVA. Our results suggested that the Liberal Party and New Democratic Party had more positive sentiment than the Conservative Party. Actual seat wins coincide with our results for the Liberal Party (which won 148 new seats) and the Conservative Party (which lost 60 seats), but positive sentiment for the New Democratic Party did not correspond to seat wins.

Progressive split poses 2019 risk for Canada’s Trudeau

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Minority Government ◽  
Early Indication ◽  
New Democratic Party

Subject Canada's federal political outlook. Significance Canada’s three main parties have all selected the leaders with which they will contest the 2019 federal election. New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party now have two years in which to define themselves for the electorate and make a case for their parties to assume or resume control of government. Impacts Fallout from fundraiser links to the Paradise Papers tax avoidance controversy could undercut Trudeau’s Liberals. Trudeau’s strong Quebec ties will help him hold off the NDP, but Ontario losses could leave a Liberal minority government. Ontario’s 2018 provincial election will offer an early indication of the strength of Trudeau’s federal opponents.

Ideology and Unstable Party Identification in Canada: Limited Rationality in a Brokerage Party System

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 813-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Michael Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Class Identification ◽  
Canada Limited

AbstractThis article examines changes in individuals' identification with Canadian federal political parties in the period 1977 to 1981. The analysis suggests that differences in class and ideology have a significant, if not very large effect on shifts in partisan identity. There was a slight bias toward more upper-class identification with the Progressive Conservative party and more lower-class identification with the Liberal party. Unstable partisans were at least as ideologically constrained as stable partisans, and partisan instability was more pronounced amongst the more left-wing individuals. Changes in partisanship were more likely among younger respondents, particularly lower-class and more left-wing youth. The largest bloc of unstable partisans was closest ideologically to the more left-wing stable New Democratic party partisans, and shifted only between the New Democratic and Liberal parties. A smaller bloc moved to the Progressive Conservative party and was ideologically closest to its more right-wing stable partisans.

Do Canadians Distinguish Between Parties? Perceptions of Party Competence

1990 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Nadeau ◽  
André Blais
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
Party Competence ◽  
Poll Data ◽  
New Democratic Party

AbstractThis study examines perceptions of party competence in four issue areas: inflation, unemployment, international affairs and Canadian unity. Using Gallup poll data from a 35-year period, the study shows that in three of the four issue areas Canadians clearly distinguish between parties. These distinctions do not merely reflect party popularity and are durable rather than immutable; perceptions change slowly but do respond to government performance. Canadians see the greatest differences between parties with respect to international affairs and Canadian unity; the Liberals enjoy a substantial lead on these two questions. On inflation, perceived competence tends to reflect popularity while on unemployment, Canadians have greater confidence in the New Democratic party. On all issues, the Conservative party image has substantially improved under the Mulroney government.

scholarly journals Indigenous Politics in Canada: The Predictable Political Non-Answer

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Rebecca Carrick
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Indigenous Politics ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
New Democratic Party

This paper analyses the platforms of the three central parties (Progressive Conservatives, Liberal, and New Democratic Party) in the 2015 Canadian Federal Election, specifically referring to their proposals for addressing Indigenous politics. This paper illuminates the failure of all parties to put forward a comprehensive platform that acknowledges the systemic problems, and works towards permanent solutions to the state of living and relations with Indigenous peoples. Instead, each party focuses on the more visible, resulting effects. This method can only lead to further stigmatization from mainstream Canadians who are provided with only a limited discursive framework, in which to view Indigenous politics.

Canada election result prompts internal party reviews

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Election Result ◽  
Minority Government ◽  
New Democratic Party

Significance The governing Liberal Party presented the election as the most important in decades as it sought a mandate to lead the country’s emergence from the pandemic. Instead, the election delivered little change, leaving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heading a minority government, most likely with support from the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) as before. Impacts An expected cabinet shuffle will see new ministers at key departments including Justice and Foreign Affairs. Provinces will drop their resistance to the proposed childcare programme, which will be in effect before the end of 2022. No new pipelines will be proposed or built while Trudeau remains in office, given perceived government hostility to fossil fuels. The transfer to the provinces of significant responsibility for healthcare will go ahead as decentralisation accelerates.

scholarly journals Modern tools and current trends in web-development

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 978
Author(s):  
Debani Prasad Mishra ◽  
Kshirod Kumar Rout ◽  
Surender Reddy Salkuti
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Front End ◽  
Responsive Design ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Web App ◽  
Cascading Style Sheets ◽  
Programming Interface

In this paper, a social media platform like LinkedIn and Facebook is made using MongoDB as a database. This paper aims to touch all the modern tools required to make an efficient web app, keeping in mind both the customer satisfaction and the ease for the developers to make their web designs, front-end and back-end. In this application, a user could make an account, add or delete details of their profile, education, and experience fields. The users could post, also comment and even like a post of other users. A monolithic architectural approach is used for simplicity in maintaining the database. Postman application programming interface (API) was used to check the working of the back-end. Git, Github, and Heroku were used to deploy the website. Node package manager (NPM) packages like bcrypt and validator are used to encrypt passwords and to validate a user during login. Media queries are used in cascading style sheets (CSS) to achieve a responsive design. Therefore, the users could view the website through a mobile phone, i-pad and also a personal computer (PC), maintaining the readability and design across all these devices.

Social Media as Mirror of Society

2017 ◽  
pp. 128-141
Author(s):  
Amir Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Data ◽  
Programming Interface ◽  
Specific Reason

Over the last decade, social media use has gained much attention of scholarly researchers. One specific reason of this interest is the use of social media for communication; a trend that is gaining tremendous popularity. Every social media platform has developed its own set of application programming interface (API). Through these APIs, the data available on a particular social media platform can be accessed. However, the data available is limited and it is difficult to ascertain the possible conclusions that can be drawn about society on the basis of this data. This chapter explores the ways social researchers and scientists can use social media data to support their research and analysis.

scholarly journals Counter-archiving Facebook

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Anat Ben-David
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Colonial Archives ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Shifting Boundaries

The article proposes archival thinking as an analytical framework for studying Facebook. Following recent debates on data colonialism, it argues that Facebook dialectically assumes a role of a new archon of public records, while being unarchivable by design. It then puts forward counter-archiving – a practice developed to resist the epistemic hegemony of colonial archives – as a method that allows the critical study of the social media platform, after it had shut down researcher’s access to public data through its application programming interface. After defining and justifying counter-archiving as a method for studying datafied platforms, two counter-archives are presented as proof of concept. The article concludes by discussing the shifting boundaries between the archivist, the activist and the scholar, as the imperative of research methods after datafication.

Partisan Preference and Income Redistribution: Cross-National and Cross-Sexual Results

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Norman Frohlich ◽  
Irvin Boschmann
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Income Redistribution ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThe relationships between attitudes toward income redistribution and partisan preferences are examined and contrasted in Canadian and American samples of college students. In both samples evidence is found that there is a strong relationship between the variables among males and an absence of a relationship among females. In Canada, support for income redistribution is strongly positively correlated with support for the New Democratic party, positively correlated with support for the Liberal party, and strongly negatively correlated with support for the Progressive Conservative party. In the United States support for income redistribution is strongly positively correlated with support for the Democratic party and strongly negatively correlated with support for the Republican party. Cross-national differences are also found between Canadian and American subjects, Canadian subjects having significantly lower variance among party supporters regarding this issue. Some implications of the results for research in the area of sex differences in politics and the influence of economic concerns on political behaviour are discussed briefly.

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