Politics: The Basics

Tansey, Stephen D; Tansey, Stephen

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“…Thus the needs of many different types of students have to be catered for, and not simply the specialist who will thrive on a sophisticated reading diet. There are excellent texts available for nurturing embryonic political scientists; those by Axford et al (1997), Heywood (1997) and Tansey (2000) do precisely what Smith required of us through providing a generic survey of the discipline together with a careful explanation of recent research findings. Textbooks on British politics, however, address a significantly different agenda.…”

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For the Guidance of Martians: A Reply to Martin Smith on British Politics Textbooks

Jones

Robins

2000

Politics

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A recent review article in the British Journal of Politics and International Relationsmade a number of criticisms about the supposed lack of innovation and theoretical rigour found in current British politics textbooks. Jones and Robins constructively engage the points made in the article and argue that the criticisms made are only partly valid. They conclude that, within the obvious confines of a basic text, there is more on offer to students than there has ever been and that the success of these textbooks provides publishers with the means to cross‐subsidise minority interest scholarship.

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For the Guidance of Martians: A Reply to Martin Smith on British Politics Textbooks

Jones

Robins

2000

Politics

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“…The lobbying industry is fuelled by conflicting ideas, motives, and ideologies as different individuals, groups and organizations promote their interests to Government and political decision makers (Jaatinen, 1999;Berger, 2001). It is common to hear of the pro-and anti-lobby further demonstrating that conflict is a common feature of lobbying (Bentley et al, 1998;Tansey, 2000). Moloney (1996aMoloney ( , 2000 suggests that a pluralistic society encourages competition between lobbying groups and organizations.…”

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A mixed motive approach to lobbying: applying game theory to analyse the impact of co‐operation and conflict on perceived lobbying success

Aitken-Turff

Jackson

2006

Journal of Public Affairs

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This study was motivated by the apparent discrepancy between guidance for public relations best practice using co-operation and collaboration to resolve conflict, and the potential to use the positive elements of conflict and competition to lobby more effectively. Game theory matrix was applied to nine lobbying campaigns, and used narrative analysis to identify themes of co-operation, conflict, and mixed motive lobbying in the transcripts. The primary research identified that: * Conflict, co-operation and mixed-motive lobbying were apparent in all the case studies. * Mixed motive lobbying was unattainable between organizations with diametrically opposed interests and this may limit its application. * A further obstacle to mixed motive strategies is the high level of resources it uses. *The numerical game theory matrix used in this study was of limited use, however, the conceptual framework the theory provided was effective at modelling conflict and cooperation strategies. * Formal co-operative alliances were common in the sample. Smaller coalitions appeared to be more effective than the larger ones. * Those engaged in high conflict campaigns perceived themselves to be more effective than those engaged in lower conflict campaigns, however, this would need to be examined more exhaustively to establish causality.A mixed motive approach to lobbying 85 Judging lobbying effectivenessEstablishing the effectiveness of lobbying activity is difficult; how do you disaggregate A mixed motive approach to lobbying 87 A mixed motive approach to lobbying 89 A mixed motive approach to lobbying 91The three businesses in the sample (P2, P6 and P9) described being involved in mixed motive A mixed motive approach to lobbying 93 A mixed motive approach to lobbying 95 Player Two Player n Figure A3. Model of pure co-operation.

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“…A central feature of democracy is the decision by voting citizens, in direct democracy, or some representatives, in a representative democracy [16]. However, a fairly large percentage of citizens are accustomed to not exercise their right to vote and many of them are not even informed of the political positions of the candidates.…”

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Voting Advice Applications: Missing Value Estimation Using Matrix Factorization and Collaborative Filtering

Agathokleous¹,

Tsapatsoulis²

2013

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract.A Voting Advice Application (VAA) is a web application that recommends to a voter the party or the candidate, who replied like him/her in an online questionnaire. Every question is responding to the political positions of each party. If the voter fails to answer some questions, it is likely the VAA to offer him/her the wrong candidate. Therefore, it is necessary to inspect the missing data (not answered questions) and try to estimate them. In this paper we formulate the VAA missing value problem and investigate several different approaches of collaborative filtering to tackle it. The evaluation of the proposed approaches was done by using the data obtained from the Cypriot presidential elections of February 2013 and the parliamentary elections in Greece in May, 2012. The corresponding datasets are made freely available to other researchers working in the areas of VAA and recommender systems through the Web.

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Politics: The Basics

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For the Guidance of Martians: A Reply to Martin Smith on British Politics Textbooks

For the Guidance of Martians: A Reply to Martin Smith on British Politics Textbooks

A mixed motive approach to lobbying: applying game theory to analyse the impact of co‐operation and conflict on perceived lobbying success

Voting Advice Applications: Missing Value Estimation Using Matrix Factorization and Collaborative Filtering

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