Migration, sexual violence and political parties A few years ago, streets in Switzerland were plastered with a poster displaying Ivan — a bulky male migrant convicted of rape — as being on the verge of obtaining Swiss citizenship. The people behind this widely debated poster were mostly from the Swiss ...
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Double Effort for Ethnic Minorities to Get Job Interviews
Yet another rejection: Aygül Muhiddin finds it frustratingly hard to get a job. If she could only be invited for a job interview so that they can learn how committed and hard-working she is! Aygül Muhiddin has a suspicion that she is discriminated against because of her name; after all, ...
Read More »On the Difficulty of Forecasting “Winners” in Parliamentary Elections
Nate Silver is a statistician, writer, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the well-known blog FiveThirtyEight, who rose to fame in the political area through his incredibly accurate data-driven predictions of U.S. Presidential election results. Before the 2012 U.S. Presidential election Mr. Silver correctly predicted the outcomes in all 50 ...
Read More »Immigration and the Demise of Political Trust
An average of 30 percent of the British public have identified immigration as one of their most important concerns since 2003; in recent months, 50 per cent or more have named this as one of the most important issues facing the UK.
Read More »Cabinet Formation and Portfolio Distribution in European Multiparty Systems
Bargaining between political parties over the allocation of cabinet seats in parliamentary coalitions has received attention from political scientists for over 50 years. For one, coalition bargaining is substantively important, as it determines the power distribution in many governments around the world. Additionally, it is an almost ideal situation to ...
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