Foreign and European Policy Issues in the 2002 Bundestag Elections

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Public Concerns

Is it always the economy, or do external issues sometimes matter,too? Consistent with the Clinton campaign slogan of 1992, politicalscientists generally predict that domestic economic issues are primaryin determining election winners. This proposition, with its severalvariants, rests on many years of survey data and analysis thathave consistently indicated that international conditions and foreignpolicy rarely, if ever, rate highly in public concerns and thereforeseldom affect election outcomes.

scholarly journals Pulses production in Italy: trade, marketing and policy issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rino Ghelfi ◽  
Alessandro Palmieri
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Domestic Consumption ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Strong Competition ◽  
Positive Factor ◽  
Training Effort ◽  
Focus Point

Italian pulses production has sharply fallen since the middle of the last century and the role that pulses played has diminished at both the agricultural and food levels. This is the result of several factors that are analysed in this article, among which the most important can be identified in the low profitability compared to other crops, mainly cereals, the historic collapse of domestic consumption and a strong competition from foreign producers. Conversely, in recent years, different signals appear to delineate a possible framework for recovery for legumes: the first of these is represented by the recent reversal trend in domestic consumption, due to healthy reasons and a fall in meat consumption. The favourable trend of organic consumption can also be considered as a positive factor for pulses. However, the focus point for pulses future perspective is the recent development of the European policy (2014-2020) that planned several actions in support of them, such as coupled payments and the provisions of greening rules. These policies aim to support the training effort needed to bring home to producers the importance of legumes in a proper crop rotation that maintains soil fertility and therefore better yields and profitability. In light of this and based on the general crisis in cereals prices, it is possible to be reasonably optimistic regarding the future of the legumes sector in Italy.

Developing Voluntary Activity: Some Policy Issues Arising from the 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Voluntary Activity ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Formal Volunteering ◽  
Geographical Variations ◽  
Informal Volunteering ◽  
Uk Government

This paper aims to promote greater discussion and debate on the implications and legitimacy of the current UK government policy approach that seeks to nurture voluntary activity by encouraging participation in voluntary groups (formal volunteering) and neglects the cultivation of one-to-one help (informal volunteering). Analysing the 2001 Home Office Citizenship Survey data on the geographical variations in volunteering, this policy approach is argued to privilege the development of a volunteering culture characteristic of affluent areas and to fail to recognise and value the informal volunteering culture more characteristic of lower-income populations. Why this is the case and how it might be resolved is then considered.

Economic issues will dominate Colombia elections

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Issues ◽  
Public Concerns

This year’s elections will be held in extraordinary circumstances, but traditional public concerns endure

scholarly journals European Policy Issues

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-796
Author(s):  
Tony Maltby
Keyword(s):  
European Policy ◽  
Policy Issues

The Role of Foreign Policy in the 2009 Campaign and the Black-Yellow Future

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Techau
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Angela Merkel

Foreign policy issues did not play a decisive role in the German general election campaign of 2009. While Chancellor Angela Merkel conducted a decidedly presidential campaign, her main rival, SPD Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, found it difficult to break out of his role as Merkel's partner in the Grand Coalition the two had led for four years. This was especially true with respect to issues on foreign policy, where both candidates had cooperated rather smoothly. Neither the issue of Afghanistan (despite the hotly debated Kunduz airstrike), nor the unresolved issues of the future of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty could antagonize the main political protagonists in Germany. The overwhelming foreign policy consensus among the mainstream political forces remained intact. Nevertheless, the changing international landscape and increased German responsibilities abroad will turn foreign policy into a relevant campaign issue, probably as early as 2013, when, presumably, the next Bundestag elections will be held.

Secular Dealignment and Party System Transition in Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-497
Author(s):  
ABDUL RASHID MOTEN
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Party System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
System Transition ◽  
Electoral Behaviour ◽  
Partisan Identification

AbstractThe Malaysian electoral behaviour has for some time reflected the ‘partisan identification’ thesis. Since 1999, however, there has been a marked shift towards ‘secular dealignment’. Analyses of electoral and survey data reveal that although a significant number of Malaysian voters remained attached to the party they identified with, most of the electorate, however, are swayed by short-term factors. Though the economic issues played a role in the three elections, it is the leadership of the parties supplemented by the use of mass media that played a significant role in swinging the vote from one party to the other. The three elections in 1999, 2004, and 2008 can be categorized as evidence of secular dealignment: the 1999 elections substantially reduced the margin of gain by the ruling coalition; the 2004 elections reversed the opposition gain, while the 2008 elections resulted in the loss of two-thirds majority seats in the parliament habitually enjoyed by the ruling coalition and the emergence of a strong opposition coalition. This trend not merely continued but was much more stronger in the 13th Malaysian general election.

scholarly journals Do Smarter People Have More Conservative Economic Attitudes? Assessing the Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Economic Ideology

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722110468
Author(s):  
Alexander Jedinger ◽  
Axel M. Burger
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
Economic Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

Evidence on the association of cognitive ability with economic attitudes is mixed. We conducted a meta-analysis ( k = 20, N = 46,426) to examine the relationship between objective measures of cognitive ability and economic ideology and analyzed survey data ( N = 3,375) to test theoretical explanations for the association. The meta-analysis provided evidence for a small positive association with a weighted mean effect size of r = .07 (95% CI = [0.02, 0.12]), suggesting that higher cognitive ability is associated with conservative views on economic issues, but effect sizes were extremely heterogeneous. Tests using representative survey data provided support for both a positive association of cognitive ability with economic conservatism that is mediated through income as well as for a negative association that is mediated through a higher need for certainty. Hence, multiple causal mechanisms with countervailing effects might explain the low overall association of cognitive ability with economic political attitudes.

De Europese eenmaking in de Vlaamse publieke opinie : onbekendheid, onverschilligheid, gelatenheid of machteloosheid

Res Publica ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 481-505
Author(s):  
Wilfried Dewachter
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
European Policy ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Opinion Polls

Unlike France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and other E.U. countries Belgium has not yet organised a referendum on European policy matters, however important these may be. So one is constrained to opinion polls and survey data to grasp the attitude of the Flemish community towards European integration. Five important policy matters are examined: the introduction of the euro, the involvement in E.U. countries, the enlargement of the E.U. , the institutional design and the position ofthe Flemish community in the E.U. At the end, with about 20 % of the electorale trying to follow the intricate European polities, on the whole public opinion on Europe in Flanders seem to be a mixture of unfamiliarity, indifference, resignation and acceptance of the policy advocated by the elitist consensus in Belgium on these matters. The missing impetus is the incentives provided by a referendum to become concerned with the complex policy-making and policies in Europe.

scholarly journals The Policy Polarization of Party Activists in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1532673X2110044
Author(s):  
Samuel Collitt ◽  
Benjamin Highton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Electoral Competition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Key Stratum ◽  
Party Activist ◽  
Party Activists

This article investigates how a key stratum of the partisan elite—party activists—have been positioned across time and policy issues. We examine the extent to which activists have polarized symmetrically or asymmetrically and find that only on the issue of abortion has one party’s activists (Republicans) polarized notably more than the other’s. The article also analyzes party activist proximity to the mass public’s policy preferences and finds that Democrats are consistently closer to the public on economic issues, and Republicans are consistently closer on a subset of non-economic issues. Our findings suggest the need for more nuanced theories of party activism and polarization along with providing a useful lens through which to view party electoral competition.

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