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Tatarenko, Agata. "Stosunek Polaków do transformacji ustrojowej: główne postawy oraz ich uwarunkowania w obliczu 30. rocznicy upadku komunizmu." Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 17, no. 1 (December 2019): 303–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36874/riesw.2019.1.14.
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The article discusses the attitude of Poles towards the political transformation in 1989, based on opinion poll surveys, mainly those carried out by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CBOS) over the last 25 years and focusing on those from 2014–2019. The author presents the conditions in which the opinions about the political transformation were shaped, as well as the factors that influenced this process. Next, she analyzes factors impacting the Polish society’s attitude towards the transformation. The article refers to the public discourse about the past, including the education and media coverage.
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Diana and Poornimarani. "RESEARCH ON MARKETING OF PRODUCTS AT KODAIKANAL TOURISM CENTRE – DINDIGUL DISTRICT." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 4, no. 8(SE) (August 31, 2016): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i8(se).2016.2587.
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The study intends to find answers to the problems and shortcomings in tourism infrastructure development in the study area and tourism support services such as quantity and quality of public transport, accommodation, food, bank, park facility, shopping, medical facilities and so on. The opinion of and suggestions from the tourist respondents incorporated herein would provide guidelines for future course of action to be followed in Kodaikanal.
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Rowdybush, Brinton. "The Roper Center: A National Archive of Public Opinion Research." PS: Political Science and Politics 21, no. 4 (1988): 929. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/420035.
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Rowdybush, Brinton. "The Roper Center: A National Archive of Public Opinion Research." PS: Political Science & Politics 21, no. 04 (September 1988): 929–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096500034351.
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Sedova, Natalia N., and Yuliya M. Baskakova. "The New expedition project of Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM)." Sociological Journal, no. 3 (2014): 180–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2014.3.521.
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Nikolai P., Nikolai P. "You can call me a comparativist, I studied American and Russian mass consciousness” / Interview prepared by B.Z. Doktorov." Sociological Journal 25, no. 1 (2019): 157–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2018.25.1.6285.
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The author describes his 50 years of experience in studying public opinion in America, the Soviet Union and Russia. This includes research at the Institute of American and Canadian Studies of American mass consciousness, the study of Americans’ attitudes towards economic and social problems, Soviet-American relations; and collaboration with leading American public opinion polling centers — the Gallup Institute, the University of Michigan, National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, studying the work of the L. Harris and M. Field polling services, the CBS-New York Times, ABC-Washington Post centers, the polling organizations of the Democratic and Republican parties, presidential advisors on public opinion. The author implemented his American experience in organizing the study of public opinion in the USSR and then in Russia when creating the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), the Center for Studying Public Opinion of the Presidential Administration of Boris Yeltsin, the Agency for Regional Political Research, and other survey centers. Analyzed is the use of sociological surveys in Boris Yeltsin’s presidential election campaign in 1996. The author has conducted several joint Soviet/Russian-American public opinion studies: “Television and society”, “Soviet and American children on the threat of war”, “National problems of Russia”. The author describes his experience in communicating with leading American and Russian experts in the study of public opinion — G. Gallup, L. Harris, Yu.A. Zamoshkin, B.A. Grushin.
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Shmueli, Liora, Erez Shmueli, Joseph S. Pliskin, Ran D. Balicer, Nadav Davidovitch, Igal Hekselman, and Geva Greenfield. "Second opinion utilization by healthcare insurance type in a mixed private-public healthcare system: a population-based study." BMJ Open 9, no. 7 (July 2019): e025673. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025673.
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ObjectivesTo evaluate the utilisation (overall and by specialty) and the characteristics of second-opinion seekers by insurance type (either health fund or supplementary insurance) in a mixed private-public healthcare.DesignAn observational study.SettingSecondary care visits provided by a large public health fund and a large supplementary health insurance in Israel.ParticipantsThe entire sample included 1 392 907 patients aged 21 years and above who visited at least one specialist over an 18 months period, either in the secondary care or privately via the supplementary insurance.Outcomes measuresAn algorithm was developed to identify potential second-opinion instances in the dataset using visits and claims data. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify characteristics of second-opinion seekers by the type of insurance they used.Results143 371 (13%) out of 1 080 892 patients who had supplementary insurance sought a single second opinion, mostly from orthopaedic surgeons. Relatively to patients who sought second opinion via the supplementary insurance, second-opinion seekers via the health fund tended to be females (OR=1.2, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.23), of age 40–59 years (OR=1.36, 95% CI 1.31 to 1.42) and with chronic conditions (OR=1.13, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.18). In contrast, second-opinion seekers via the supplementary insurance tended to be native-born and established immigrants (OR=0.79, 95% CI 0.76 to 0.84), in a high socioeconomic level (OR=0.39, 95% CI 0.37 to 0. 4) and living in central areas (OR=0.88, 95% CI 0.85 to 0.9).ConclusionsCertain patient profiles tended to seek second opinions via the supplementary insurance more than others. People from the centre of the country and with a high socioeconomic status tended to do so, as medical specialists tend to reside in central urban areas. Further research is recommended to examine the availability of medical specialists by specialty and residence.
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Lockwood, Charles. "‘Action Not Words’: The Conservative Party, Public Opinion and ‘Scientific’ Politics, c.1945–70." Twentieth Century British History 31, no. 3 (June 24, 2019): 360–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz014.
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Abstract From the late 1950s, Conservative research and policy thinkers underwent a conscious intellectual adjustment, which had profound implications for how the party conceived the relationship between politicians and the public during Edward Heath’s period as Conservative leader after 1965. In response to contemporaneous debates regarding ‘modernization’, and as a result of their engagement with the emergent social sciences, a new generation of Conservatives tended to repudiate the party’s traditional preference for idealist and organicist philosophical assumptions in favour of a rationalistic approach to political administration. Their preoccupation with economic management was concomitant of their loss of faith in the formative role of rhetorical and moral appeals in shaping public opinion. This article, by focusing on debates within the party’s research and political apparatus—the Conservative Research Department, the Conservative Political Centre and Swinton College—will contend that, far from being the last gasp of a post-war consensual Conservatism, Heath’s period as leader marked a relatively unique period in the party’s history, in which the conception of the nature of political leadership held by those at the top of the party differed from the conception held by both their predecessors and successors.
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Piątkowski, Włodzimierz. "The social role of the physician in classical Polish medical sociology. A reconstruction of the views of Magdalena Sokołowska." Polish Journal of Public Health 128, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjph-2018-0009.
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Abstract This article is an attempt to reconstruct the views of the creator of the Polish and co-creator of the Western sociology of medicine – Magdalena Sokołowska. The content of these contemplations applies to the social role of the physician. This paper describes the evolution of her ideas, which were inspired by classical Western literature (such as Robert Merton, Howard Becker, Anselm Strauss) and the results of the 1962’s contest for the best industrial physician diary, as well as the opinion polls of that time (CBOS – Centre for Public Opinion Research, 1972) that described the views of Poles on both the professional and moral duties of physicians. Magdalena Sokolowska’s views and opinions were also modified and shaped by her coworkers and mentors: Jan Szczepański, Adam Podgórecki and Adam Sarapata. The creator of the Polish sociology of medicine had also a vision for the prospective research on the physician profession that involved, inter alia, the necessity for increasing behavioral competences, complementing medical knowledge with elements of prevention and health promotion, as well as the need for integrating humanities with biomedicine.
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Flemr, Libor, and Linda Vančurová. "Veřejné mínění o výstavbě Národního olympijského centra v Nymburce." Studia sportiva 10, no. 2 (December 12, 2016): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/sts2016-2-2.
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The main objective of this article is to determine public opinion in Nymburk and the surrounding municipalities on the intended construction of the National Olympic Center in Nymburk, based on surveys. The research method used in this survey was interviews – electronic and written questionnaires. The authors’ questionnaire was drawn up to determine public opinion of the construction of the National Olympic Center in Nymburk. Based on the data obtained, it was found out that the public opinion of the construction of the National Olympic Center is largely positive (85% of the respondents). The public is open to this project, people want a modern sport center and support its development despite the large expense and scope of the project.
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MATVEEVA, ELENA, and IGOR SITDIKOV. "MONITORING PUBLIC ATTITUDE TO THE WORK OF POLICE IN KEMEROVO REGION - KUZBASS (BASED ON REGIONAL STUDIES)." History and modern perspectives 3, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 114–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33693/2658-4654-2021-3-1-114-120.
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The article aims to present a comparative analysis of the results of opinion polls conducted by all-Russian public opinion centers and regional research organizations regarding the work of the police based on the case of one division of the Siberian Federal District - Kemerovo Region - Kuzbass. It is noted that conducting such research acts as a kind of “feedback” tool between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the public and is basically aimed at identifying the dynamics of current results and existing problems in the work of police officers. At the same time, the authors compare polls of different types (mass and online polls) and levels (federal or regional), which allows for a better analysis of the issue. The article analyzes data for the last few years obtained by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Siberian Politics Foundation and the Centre for Regional Social and Political Research at the Institute of History and International Relations of Kemerovo State University. The main issues that are constantly monitored by the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and representing the subjects of tudy for opinion surveys include the degree of protection of the population, the level of trust to police officers, performance assessment, the degree of victimization of the population (whether a person was subjected to criminal attacks or not for over the past 12 months). The study made it possible to see the weak and strong aspects of both the survey results themselves using the case of the region and to trace the similarities and differences in the public evaluation throughout the country and in Kuzbass. For example, online polls in Kuzbass conducted in September 2020 against the background of the COVID: pandemic showed a “surge” of protest potential in the responses. In general, the study concluded that federal results tend to color the real situation offering a certain generalized result across the country, while the level of regional research is more objective in reflecting the real situation.
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SCHNEIDER, SAUNDRA K., and WILLIAM G. JACOBY. "Reconsidering the Linkage between Public Assistance and Public Opinion in the American Welfare State." British Journal of Political Science 37, no. 3 (June 5, 2007): 555–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123407000282.
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In an article published in this Journal, we have examined whether American welfare recipients possess beliefs and attitudes that differ from mainstream public opinion. Although our findings cast doubt on the existence of a widespread ‘culture of dependence’, we do show that programme beneficiaries exhibit self-interested support for government policies that provide assistance to needy segments of the population. However, our analysis – like most others on this topic – assumes that welfare participation affects opinions and not vice versa. This is problematic because there are theoretical reasons to believe that influences flow in the opposite direction, as well. Therefore, some important questions remain to be answered: is it really the case that welfare participation, itself, shapes the outlook of programme beneficiaries? Or do political attitudes affect reliance on public assistance in the first place?In this Research Note, we examine the underlying structure of the relationship between welfare participation and attitudes towards government activity. Our analysis uses the 1992 Center for Political Studies (CPS) National Election Study, the same dataset employed in the earlier article. But, we test a statistical model that allows for reciprocal influences between welfare and public opinion. The empirical results reinforce the earlier conclusion that welfare participation has an impact on mass attitudes. Conversely, political attitudes have no effect on whether citizens use public aid. Mirroring our earlier work, we find that people who rely on governmental assistance take rational, self-interested positions on the public policy issues which operate to their own direct benefit.
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Berbers, Anna, Justus Uitermark, Vincent A. Traag, and Leen d'Haenens. "From the margin to the centre? A relational analysis of discursive contention in the minority integration debate in the Low Countries." International Communication Gazette 82, no. 8 (April 26, 2019): 705–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048519842476.
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Minority integration is a highly contested topic in public debates, and assimilationist actors appear to have gained discursive ground. However, it remains difficult to accurately depict how power relations in debates change and evolve. In this study, the public debates on minority integration in Flanders and the Netherlands between 2006 and 2012 are studied to ascertain changing power relations. We use a relational method to identify clusters formed through discursive contention and study polarization in the debates as well as several aspects of discursive power between and within clusters. In the Netherlands, a pattern identified in earlier research is reproduced, whereby a unified but small cluster of assimilationists with strong discursive leaders is able to dominate the debate on integration. In Flanders, group consolidation is too low, so the clusters cannot be viewed as cohesive groups. Another difference to the Dutch debate is that the volume of opinion articles is much lower and the actors in the Flemish debate are more often foreign opinion leaders. We conclude that the assimilationists have increased their discursive power in the Dutch debate, while the anti-assimilationists have lost power. The stark contrast between the Dutch and Flemish discursive landscape highlights the need for more research on the causal mechanism behind discursive struggles.
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Cvetković, Marija, Nikola Dinkić, Aleksandra Djukić, and Jugoslav Joković. "Post-Socialistic Shopping Malls as New Gathering Places: Case Study Belgrade." Periodica Polytechnica Architecture 48, no. 2 (January 10, 2018): 101–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ppar.11754.
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This paper explores the built environment of a shopping mall and considers the perceptions of its users, measuring the intensity of users both in open public spaces and shopping malls. This paper aims to compare the concentration of users in the selected shopping malls built in New Belgrade and open public spaces in the city centre. It considers the preferences consumers have towards shopping malls and public spaces, by determining their opinion on the (dis)advantages of the shopping malls over features of the city centre. The methodological frameworks of the research are questionnaires, surveys and a method of mapping users on social maps (via social networks). The identity of shopping malls versus public places in Belgrade is observed through technical analyses and qualitative surveys using online and on-site questionnaires, as well as the study of social media (twitter). A structured questionnaire was developed to measure customers’ shopping motivation, preferences, as well as the demographic information of respondents, questions about the identity of the shopping mall and the city centre, and the connection between them. The research also used the newly developed software application - Twitter search engine. The aim was tracking and measuring the intensity of users in the monitored territory, and testing their latest behavioural patterns. Summarizing and interpreting the collected data provided three groups of results: competitiveness of the shopping mall with open public space with the focus on the main qualities; measuring the concentration of users both in shopping malls and open public spaces, and suggestions for improvement of open public spaces.
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Malečková, Jitka, and Dragana Stanišić. "Changes in Public Opinion and the Occurrence of International Terrorism." Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 631–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/peps-2014-0021.
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AbstractThis paper is a contribution to the study of the impact of public opinion and evolutions in opinion on the occurrence of international terrorism. First, we replicate Krueger and Malečková’s (2009) model of the relationship between attitudes towards world leaders and occurrences of international terrorist incidents, using more recent data-the Gallup Survey data from 2010 on public opinion in Middle Eastern and North African countries and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) data on international terrorism from 2009 to 2011. The analysis confirms the model of the earlier study, although, due to the distribution of terrorist incidents in the new sample, the evidence of the correlation between terrorist attacks and public opinion weakens. Second, we exercise an out-of-sample prediction of terrorist attacks using the estimated model based on the data from the 2004 to 2008 period to predict the occurrence of attacks in 2009–2011. The findings suggest that Krueger and Malečková’s (2009) model is unstable, either due to the instability of the process or the problematic nature of terrorism data. Further research is necessary to explain and test these results.
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Fuller, James Sebastian. "The impact of the Health and Social Care Act, 2012 on the health and wellbeing of rough sleepers." Journal of Integrated Care 24, no. 5/6 (October 17, 2016): 249–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-05-2016-0018.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the Health and Social Care Act, 2012 on London’s rough sleepers as seen from the perspective of one former homeless service user (currently working as a support worker in a day centre providing outreach and “drop in” facilities for people who are street homeless and other vulnerable adults including female sex workers). The discussion centres on some of the unintended impacts of changes to healthcare commissioning; the new arrangements for patient, public representation; and the enhanced role of local councils. Design/methodology/approach This paper is grounded in front line practitioner reflection/opinion and draws on practical experience and observation at Spires, as well as research and government papers published by other service providers. The aspirations of the Health and Social Care Act, 2012 are set out before its practical application are examined from the rough sleeper’s dimension. Findings Putting clinicians and GPs centre stage in the commissioning and purchasing of healthcare may have some benefits for individual patient choice, but it can also dilute patient public involvement in health and social care with negative effects for vulnerable and excluded groups, including rough sleepers. The terms of reference ascribed to Local Healthwatch Organisations, the official representatives of the people, are narrower than previously and limit their ability to influence official policy. The Act centralises control whilst devolving operational responsibility, especially for public health provision on which rough sleepers often rely. It is suggested that local voluntary organisations and specialist “inclusion” health groups are increasingly being expected to take over responsibility for delivering health and social care and that mainstream collaboration is much reduced rather than enhanced by this fragmentation. Research limitations/implications This review is based on the opinion of an “expert by experience” which may not be representative. Originality/value This is one of few papers which present a front line service user/practitioner perspective on the impact of clinical commissioning on services for marginalised groups.
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Herzog, Harold, and Lorna Dorr. "Electronically Available Surveys of Attitudes Toward Animals." Society & Animals 8, no. 2 (2000): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853000511078.
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AbstractMuch of the research on attitudes toward non-human species has been conducted with non-representative samples. Largely ignored in the literature on human/animal interactions are surveys conducted by commercial polling organizations using large probability samples of Americans. Many of these surveys contain information relevant to attitudes about animals and animal welfare issues. This information is available to researchers electronically at little or no cost through organizations such as the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and the National Opinion Research Center.
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Dorr, Lorna B., and Harold A. Herzogl. "Electronically Available Surveys of Attitudes Toward Animals." Society & Animals 8, no. 1 (2000): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853000x00129.
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AbstractMuch of the research on attitudes toward non-human species has been conducted with non-representative samples. Largely ignored in the literature on human/animal interactions are surveys conducted by commercial polling organizations using large probability samples of Americans. Many of these surveys contain information relevant to attitudes about animals and animal welfare issues. This information is available to researchers electronically at little or no cost through organizations such as the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and the National Opinion Research Center.
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Włodarczyk, Katarzyna. "Polscy konsumenci wobec globalizacji konsumpcji." Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW - Ekonomika i Organizacja Gospodarki Żywnościowej, no. 111 (October 14, 2015): 177–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/eiogz.2015.111.43.
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In modern times, firms that want to attract new clients and encourage them to buy their products should design global marketing strategies. This stems from the fact that in the era of globalisation consumers communicate with one another easily thanks to multi-media devices (mainly via the Internet), which enables particular cultures (and hence consumer patterns and behaviours) to interpenetrate. Consumers making similar buying choices form groups that share interests, experiences and needs. Since they exchange their experiences and reveal their buying habits, products that do not meet their expectations are pushed from the market. In this way, consumers have influence on the functioning of producers. The article is aimed at stating: how do Polish consumers evaluate globalisation of consumption in the prospect of time? The paper includes a theoretical deliberation based on the literature on the subject as well as data derived from the author’s own research and from reports published by Public Opinion Research Centre (CBOS), WVS and EVS surveys, the Globalisation Institute and Eurobarometer. Polish consumers’ opinions concerning globalisation were changing in period 2005–2015. Consequently, it is expected that the opinions about globalisation of consumption will be still evolving in Polish society.
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Ardalyanova, A. Yu, A. E. Zemtsova, and I. V. Kupryashkin. "DIGITALIZATION OF URBAN SPACE: FROM IDEA TO EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF VLADIVOSTOK RESIDENTS." Respublica literaria, RL.2022. Vol.3. No.1 (March 30, 2022): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47850/rl.2022.3.1.54-66.
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The article describes the results of a study conducted by the authors in order to identify and justify the main opportunities and limitations of digital transformations in urban development through the analysis of the "Smart City" concept and assessment of the opinions of citizens regarding the need for and importance of introducing digital solutions into their daily practices (on the example of the city of Vladivostok). Empirical methods are represented by a secondary analysis of sociological data, the empirical basis for which was the research of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), the Primorsky Research Center of Sociology. The results of interviews with residents of the city of Vladivostok (N=15) are presented.
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Ardalyanova, A. Yu, A. E. Zemtsova, and I. V. Kupryashkin. "DIGITALIZATION OF URBAN SPACE: FROM IDEA TO EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF VLADIVOSTOK RESIDENTS." Respublica literaria, RL.2022. Vol.3. No.1 (March 30, 2022): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47850/rl.2022.3.1.54-66.
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The article describes the results of a study conducted by the authors in order to identify and justify the main opportunities and limitations of digital transformations in urban development through the analysis of the "Smart City" concept and assessment of the opinions of citizens regarding the need for and importance of introducing digital solutions into their daily practices (on the example of the city of Vladivostok). Empirical methods are represented by a secondary analysis of sociological data, the empirical basis for which was the research of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), the Primorsky Research Center of Sociology. The results of interviews with residents of the city of Vladivostok (N=15) are presented.
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Baker, Lauri, Chen-Xian Yang, Angela Lindsey, Ashley McLeod-Morin, Ricky Telg, Anissa Zagonel, Sydney Honeycutt, Naik Wali, and Shelli Rampold. "Public Opinion in a Pandemic: Four Surveys Conducted with Americans throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic." Proceedings of the International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference 5 (March 10, 2022): 45–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.30658/icrcc.2022.11.
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The UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (PIE Center) conducted a series of national public opinion surveys to examine the perceptions of Americans related to COVID-19. The PIE Center conducted four surveys with ~1,500 Americans per survey from mid-March 2020 to January 2021. The surveys sought to understand Americans’ perceptions of a range of topics including health and communication concerns, vaccination perceptions and acceptance, mask understanding and willingness, and compound disasters and stress. Presentations in this panel highlight key areas of research from this survey series and share how communicators can use this research to craft campaigns to effectively reach Americans during COVID-19 and future public health crises.
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Matveeva, Е., and S. Gladkikh. "THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION IN STATE CIVIL SERVICE AS PERCEIVED BY THE PUBLIC (THE CASE OF A REGIONAL STUDY)." Transbaikal State University Journal 27, no. 6 (2021): 80–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/2227-9245-2021-27-6-80-89.
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The subject matter of the article is the study of public attitudes in Kemerovo Region-Kuzbass in relation to the problem of corruption which manifests itself in various areas of social relations, in particular, in the system of the state civil service. The aim of the study is to consider the current views on the problem of corruption and countering it in public assessments of the population of Kemerovo Region-Kuzbass. To solve this task statistical and monitoring data from federal research centres have been used, as well as the results of a regional sociological survey conducted by the authors in the municipal divisions of Kemerovo Region-Kuzbass. The methodological basis of the research has been formed by the systemic and neoinstitutional approaches along with the sociological survey. The article presents statistical data of federal sociological institutions (All-Russian Centre for the Study of Public Opinion, Public Opinion Foundation) for the past few years in assessing the problem of corruption by the population. In addition, Transparency International’s 2020 data on the level of perceptions of corruption in the Russian Federation are presented, which make it possible to draw attention to the problems in combating corruption and propose recommendations for improving the state anti-corruption policy. In designing the research questionnaire for their sociological survey, the authors adhere to the principle of problem-based assessment of the current situation regarding the issue of corruption, which has made it possible to evaluate the subject of the research from different angles and to focus on the most challenging issues. It is noted that the understanding of the term “corruption” in the civil service system is associated with the concept of “bribery”, the appropriation of resources and taking advantage of official position. Among the recommendations proposed, the authors would highlight the necessity to continue activities to strengthen measures of countering corruption, to make the work of officials more transparent, to enhance the information campaign among the population to provide information on the responsibility for illegal actions
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Pardos-Prado, Sergi, and Iñaki Sagarzazu. "Economic performance and center-periphery conflicts in party competition." Party Politics 25, no. 1 (January 2019): 50–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068818816978.
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The reasons pushing parties to politicize noneconomic dimensions of competition, and the consequences of this for the representation of public opinion, are badly understood in the party competition literature. This is a pressing research gap, especially given the recent and significant reactivation of territorial or center-periphery conflicts in Western Europe. In this article, we first argue that bad macroeconomic performance increases the incentives of incumbent parties to deviate the attention toward territorial conflicts in order to avoid electoral punishment. Second, we also argue that the opposite is true for public opinion: it is precisely during periods of bad economic performance and high economic concern, when the electorate moves away from territorial interests. The dynamic emerging from our findings is thus far from an ideal bottom-up representation: elites divert the attention toward territorial conflicts to mask periods of poor economic performance, which is precisely when public opinion is less interested in center-periphery issues. We validate our claims using text analysis of party attention in Spain and time series models covering four electoral cycles (1996–2011).
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Güney, Serhat, Bülent Kabaş, and Fatih Çömlekçi. "A Place for Immigrants in the Ghetto: The Rise and Fall of the NaunynRitze Youth Centre." Space and Culture 22, no. 4 (February 13, 2018): 369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218757662.
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In this work, we attempt to examine the role of strategies like arts sponsorship and culturalism in the solution of immigrant youth issues around a specific immigrant place. This is a case study that focuses on the NaunynRitze Youth Centre in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which was presented as a successful example by policy makers and the public in the 1990s when the footsteps of the crisis of multiculturalism had begun to be heard in Germany. Our research shows that the social engineering strategies shaped around a multikulti production base are not permanent or sustainable as long as these institutions are also given the responsibility of eliminating the cycle of crime and violence in addition to promote individual artistic development and subcultural entities. As long as political figures and the public opinion continue to generally see the immigrant youth as a danger to the secure and untarnished development of society, it does not appear possible for the multiculturalism and the immigrant youth work system to develop.
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Schöpfel, Joachim, Coline Ferrant, Francis André, and Renaud Fabre. "Research data management in the French National Research Center (CNRS)." Data Technologies and Applications 52, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 248–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dta-01-2017-0005.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding research data management (RDM). Design/methodology/approach The results are part of a nationwide survey on scientific information and documentation with 432 directors of French public research laboratories conducted by the French Research Center CNRS in 2014. Findings The paper presents empirical results about data production (types), management (human resources, IT, funding, and standards), data sharing and related needs, and highlights significant disciplinary differences. Also, it appears that RDM and data sharing is not directly correlated with the commitment to open access. Regarding the FAIR data principles, the paper reveals that 68 per cent of all laboratory directors affirm that their data production and management is compliant with at least one of the FAIR principles. But only 26 per cent are compliant with at least three principles, and less than 7 per cent are compliant with all four FAIR criteria, with laboratories in nuclear physics, SSH and earth sciences and astronomy being in advance of other disciplines, especially concerning the findability and the availability of their data output. The paper concludes with comments about research data service development and recommendations for an institutional RDM policy. Originality/value For the first time, a nationwide survey was conducted with the senior research management level from all scientific disciplines. Surveys on RDM usually assess individual data behaviours, skills and needs. This survey is different insofar as it addresses institutional and collective data practice. The respondents did not report on their own data behaviours and attitudes but were asked to provide information about their laboratory. The response rate was high (>30 per cent), and the results provide good insight into the real support and uptake of RDM by senior research managers who provide both models (examples for good practice) and opinion leadership.
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Schöpfel, Joachim, Coline Ferrant, Francis André, and Renaud Fabre. "Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)." Interlending & Document Supply 44, no. 4 (November 21, 2016): 141–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ilds-06-2016-0023.
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Purpose This paper aims to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding open access (OA) to scientific and technical information. Design/methodology/approach The results are part of a nationwide survey on scientific information and documentation with 432 directors of French public research laboratories conducted by the French National Research Center (CNRS) in 2014. Findings The CNRS senior research managers (laboratory directors) globally share the positive opinion towards OA revealed by other studies with researchers from the UK, Germany, the USA and other countries. However, they are more supportive of open repositories (green road) than of OA journal publishing (gold). The response patterns reveal a gap between generally positive opinions about OA and less supportive behaviours, principally publishing articles with article processing charges (APCs). A small group of senior research managers does not seem to be interested in green or gold OA and reluctant to self-archiving and OA publishing. Similar to other studies, the French survey confirms disciplinary differences, i.e. a stronger support for self-archiving of records and documents in HAL by scientists from Mathematics, Physics and Informatics than from Biology, Earth Sciences and Chemistry; and more experience and positive feelings with OA publishing and payment of APCs in Biology than in Mathematics or in Social Sciences and Humanities. Disciplinary differences and specific French factors are discussed, in particular in the context of the new European policy in favour of Open Science. Originality/value For the first time, a nationwide survey was conducted with the senior research management level from all scientific disciplines. The response rate was high (>30 per cent), and the results provide good insight into the real awareness, support and uptake of OA by senior research managers who provide both models (examples for good practice) and opinion leadership.
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Puri Rahayu, Luki Retno. "“DETERMINANTS OF AUDIT DELAY IN INDONESIA COMPANIES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE”." INVENTORY: JURNAL AKUNTANSI 1, no. 1 (April 10, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.25273/inventory.v1i1.5010.
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<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of firm size, DER, auditor opinion, anda public accounting firm sizetoward audit delay in sanctions-hit Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013.The population of the study is a company that sanctioned the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013 and listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange in the period 2012-2015.These samples wereselected by using Purposive sampling method with the total sample of 16 companies. The data analysis uses multiple regressions. The results showed that the firm size, DER, auditor opinion, and a public accounting firm sizenot affect audit delay. Partial testing, showing the firm size, DER, auditor opinion, and a public accounting firm sizenot affect audit delay.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>audit delay, firm size, DER, auditor opinion, and a public accounting firm size.</em><em></em></p><p align="center"> </p>
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Elder, Laurel, and Brian Frederick. "Why We Love Michelle: Understanding Public Support for First Lady Michelle Obama." Politics & Gender 15, no. 03 (August 15, 2019): 403–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x19000436.
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After eight years as the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama left the White House beloved in the eyes of many Americans. Being well liked by Americans is not in and of itself an unusual phenomenon for first ladies. What is remarkable about the love so many Americans expressed toward First Lady Michelle Obama is that she was able to maintain high favorable evaluations through a period of political, social, and electoral acrimony that made high approval ratings for national political figures increasingly unlikely. By drawing on a wealth of aggregate data drawn from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research archives and individual-level public opinion data drawn from the 2012 American National Election Studies survey as well as original survey data, this article identifies several important forces behind Michelle Obama's popularity.
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Silber Mohamed, Heather. "Embryonic Politics: Attitudes about Abortion, Stem Cell Research, and IVF." Politics and Religion 11, no. 3 (May 9, 2018): 459–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175504831800010x.
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AbstractEfforts by anti-abortion advocates to introduce “personhood” initiatives, which state that human life begins at fertilization, have prompted concern among infertility specialists that these initiatives would hinder access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). Yet, our understanding of public opinion about IVF is limited. It remains unclear whether attitudes about this technology are consistent with opinions about other issues related to human embryos, particularly abortion and embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. Using data from a nationally representative survey, I fill this gap by exploring the role that religion plays in shaping attitudes about a range of embryonic politics issues. I find that religiosity, income, and ideology strongly influence whether individuals view these issues in moral terms. Respondents who are most devout and Evangelical Protestants are most likely to consistently oppose all three embryonic politics issues. Yet, the relationship between religion and attitudes about the morality of each procedure is also influenced by the procedure's outcome, with religion most influential with respect to abortion attitudes and least influential in the case of IVF. Additionally, women are less likely than men to describe IVF as morally wrong, while, in comparison to non-Hispanic whites, Latino respondents are more likely to do so.Replication Data. Replication data is publicly available on the website of the Pew Research Center Religion and Public Life Project.
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Bergmeister, Konstantin, and Bruno Podesser. "Acceptance of animal research in our science community." F1000Research 5 (March 4, 2016): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8169.1.
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Animal research is debated highly controversial, as evident by the “Stop Vivi-section” initiative in 2015. Despite widespread protest to the initiative by researchers, no data is available on the European medical research community’s opinion towards animal research. In this single-center study, we investigated this question in a survey of students and staff members at the Medical University of Vienna. A total of 906 participants responded to the survey, of which 82.8% rated the relevance of animal research high and 62% would not accept a treatment without prior animals testing. Overall, animal research was considered important, but its communication to the public considered requiring improvement.
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Bergmeister, Konstantin, and Bruno Podesser. "Acceptance of animal research in our science community." F1000Research 5 (July 8, 2016): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8169.2.
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Animal research is debated highly controversial, as evident by the “Stop Vivi-section” initiative in 2015. Despite widespread protest to the initiative by researchers, no data is available on the European medical research community’s opinion towards animal research. In this single-center study, we investigated this question in a survey of students and staff members at the Medical University of Vienna. A total of 906 participants responded to the survey, of which 82.8% rated the relevance of animal research high and 62% would not accept a treatment without prior animals testing. Overall, animal research was considered important, but its communication to the public considered requiring improvement.
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Enns, Peter K., and Jose T. Sanchez Gomez. "The Polls—Trends Economic Evaluations and Political Change in Chile, 1966 to 2018." Public Opinion Quarterly 83, no. 3 (2019): 627–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfz029.
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Abstract Over the past half century, Chile has fluctuated wildly in terms of economic prosperity and democratic health. Using 78 surveys archived at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, we document the evolution of Chileans’ perceptions of their personal, family, and national economic conditions during major political and economic changes. The data show that prior to the Pinochet dictatorship, despite a growing economic crisis, Chileans’ perceptions of their family’s economic situation—particularly among the lower socio-economic class—improved, suggesting that Allende’s social and economic policies may have had their intended effect. In contrast, through the democratic transition and the contemporary period, economic evaluations typically tracked objective economic conditions. We conclude by discussing how these patterns can inform public opinion research in Latin America and beyond.
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Ramírez, A. Susana, Kesia K. Garibay, Denise Diaz Payán, Victoria Campos Gática, and Yolanda Merino Salmeron. "News coverage of Mexico’s front-of-package food label policy." BMJ Global Health 7, no. 5 (May 2022): e008803. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008803.
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ObjectivesTo examine news coverage of Mexico’s front-of-package food labelling policy.MethodsWe used Lexis Nexis to identify newspaper articles that mention the proposed law in four Mexican newspapers representing politically centre-left and centre-right perspectives. We coded for type and valence of arguments, sources and research evidence cited.ResultsWe identified N=361 relevant articles. Coverage of the front-of-package food label policy was primarily news (vs editorial/opinion). While most were neutral in tone, left-leaning newspapers had slightly more positive overall coverage compared with right-leaning newspapers, indicated by publishing more stories in favour of the policy, fewer in opposition, more propolicy arguments and more frequent inclusion of perspectives by government officials and public health advocates. Despite some evidence of bias, there was a general lack of credible opposition to the policy and mention of opponents across newspapers.Conclusions and policy implicationsThe relative absence of food and beverage industry stakeholders in news coverage of the food label policy is unexpected given their documented involvement in prior food policy debates. We discuss possible reasons for their conspicuous absence and lessons for public health advocates around the globe.
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Osewska, Elżbieta. "Emotional Bonds in the Polish Family during the Social and Political Transformation in Poland according to Empirical Research ." Bogoslovska smotra 91, no. 5 (2022): 1193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.53745/bs.91.5.12.
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Family relationships have been becoming increasingly important in Polish, contemporary society especially after the socio-political transformation in Poland. Before that time, family studies were strongly influenced by the socialist system and propaganda. Currently, family relationships are also diverse in structure and in functions. In reply to the widely debated »family crisis« hypothesis, the author of this article suggests that family relations will be more important in the 21st century, because there is a positive association between the experience of strong emotional bonds in the family and the strength of family relationship. Consequently, supporting emotional family ties means also supporting the growth of healthy relationships in the society. Therefore, the aim of this article is to present the bonds between members of the Polish family at the end of the 20th, and at the beginning of the 21st centuries on the basis of the results of surveys conducted by CBOS (Public Opinion Research Centre in Poland).
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Burton, Nicholas, and Cheri Bradish. "Discursive Power in Commercial-Rights Management: Examining the Origins of Ethical Framing of Ambush Marketing." International Journal of Sport Communication 11, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 200–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2017-0100.
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This research examined the efforts of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to frame ambush marketing as an ethically or morally dubious practice and thus influence consumer opinion. After an extensive documentary content analysis of internal Olympic-marketing and Games-development archival materials from the International Olympic Committee’s Library and Olympic Studies Centre, the study’s findings offer new insight into the IOC’s overt influence on ambush discourse as a strategic communication objective in combatting ambush marketing. Results evidence a deliberate attempt on the part of stakeholders to employ “name and shame” public relations and educational campaigns to position ambush marketing as ethically objectionable. In thus examining the discursive power wielded by the IOC, the study offers new perspective on the implications of such ethical framing and illustrates the way that ambush-marketing research and conceptualizations have been defined by rights holders’ influence and censure.
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Grim, Brian J., and Richard Wike. "Cross-Validating Measures of Global Religious Intolerance: Comparing Coded State Department Reports with Survey Data and Expert Opinion." Politics and Religion 3, no. 1 (November 18, 2009): 102–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048309990459.
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AbstractWe address a pressing substantive issue as well as evaluate several methodologies in this article. Substantively, we ask whether the U.S. State Department has a clear understanding of the level of cross-national religious intolerance that triggers daily headlines around the globe. Methodologically, we ask whether data on social attitudes coded from systematic qualitative reports can reliably represent cross-national public opinion. We empirically address these questions by comparing cross-national levels of religious intolerance coded from the State Department's annual international religious freedom reports with relevant population survey data from the World Values Survey and the Pew Research Center, as well as with data from written interviews of country experts conducted by the Hudson Institute. The results indicate that the understanding of social religious intolerance embodied in the State Department reports is comparable with the results of population surveys and individual expert opinion. Methodologically, this suggests that cross-national public opinion survey data can be cross-validated with coded data from systematic qualitative analysis as well as with expert opinion.
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Stefaniuk, Małgorzata. "Świadomość ekologiczna społeczeństwa polskiego w zakresie zasobów naturalnych i ich ochrony (przegląd badań)." Studia Iuridica Lublinensia 30, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 357. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sil.2021.30.2.357-379.
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<p>The article comprises an analysis of public opinion surveys concerning the environmental awareness in Polish society concerning natural resources and their protection, which issue has not been presented to date comprehensively in the literature on the subject. To this end, i.e. to present the degree of this awareness, the results of opinion surveys on the following topics have been presented and analysed: environmental protection as a social problem and the sources of knowledge on this subject, climate change, natural resources as sources of energy, attitude to the nuclear power plant construction, and air quality. The study has been based on representative surveys carried out by public opinion polling centres. The above-mentioned analysis has been preceded by terminological findings on such terms as “environmental security”, “natural resources”, “environmental awareness” and “public opinion”, with a proposal for a new definition of environmental awareness, referring to elements of legal awareness. It has been assumed that the knowledge of the degree of public awareness is useful in designing legal solutions conducive to environmentally sound behaviour and in taking decisions on a gradual increase in the extent to which public participation in natural resource management is allowed. The research hypothesis that awareness of natural resources among the Polish population is not optimal but is gradually increasing was confirmed. It has been pointed out that legal measures to promote environmental measures need to be complemented and strengthened by instructional and educational measures.</p>
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Chandler, Andrea. "Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime." Canadian Journal of Political Science 41, no. 1 (March 2008): 214–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423908080165.
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Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime, Richard Rose, William Mishler and Neil Munro, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xii, 226.This monograph analyzes major findings of fourteen years of public opinion research in Russia carried out under the New Russia Barometer survey research project, which Rose and colleagues conducted in conjunction with the Levada Centre in Russia. Rose, Mishler and Munro offer a clearly written, focused discussion that puts complex data into perspective. The work's major contribution is its systematic evaluation of the evolution of Russian citizens' political attitudes from 1992 to 2005. As the authors note in their dedication to the volume, their surveys included over 28,000 people across Russia (the methodology is outlined on pp. 70–75). As such, the book's authority in providing an accurate reflection of citizens' views is indisputable. Much to their credit, the authors render their findings readily understandable to readers who are not expert in survey research design or quantitative methods.
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Wu, Wei, Gulmira Bakirova, and Ivan Trifonov. "A Shift Towards Visualization in eLearning." International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies 16, no. 6 (November 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijwltt.20211101.oa11.
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the movement towards visualization in e-learning. The study methods include a survey and a theoretical modeling method. The study focuses on analyzing data from the 2020 public opinion survey “School graduates and students expressed their opinion on distance education” by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) and develops a four-tier framework model for e-learning content visualization that integrates four theories of learning, namely behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and activism. The results indicate that visualization in e-learning as a trend is strongly associated with global information and communication technologies (ICTs) development. The survey by VCIOM found that 38% of surveyed students in Russia viewed their educational institutions as averagely equipped for online distance learning, 22% - well-equipped, 26% - rather well-equipped, 12% - rather poorly equipped, and 7% - poorly equipped. This study offers content visualization framework that will make it possible to organize the teaching and learning process.
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Okunev, Igor Yu, Marianna N. Shestakova, and Emma S. Bibina. "Neighborhood with Russia: Implications for Regional Differentiation of Public Opinion in Belarus." Russia in Global Affairs 18, no. 4 (2020): 10–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-10-36.
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The perception of neighboring states is one of the main focus areas in sociology and political science. However, the issue of regional differentiation of public opinion often remains outside of sociological and political research. This article aims to determine regional differences in the perception of Russia by Belarusians. The study uses the results of a survey conducted by the authors in Belarus following the November 2019 parliamentary election, and the data received from a spatial analysis of the last four electoral cycles in Belarus. The authors presumed that there were no consistent lines of regional differentiation in the public opinion in Belarus, with the exception of differences in residents’ perception of the center (the capital) and peripheral regions. This main assumption was divided into ten working hypotheses, and the attitude of Belarusians towards Russia as its closest neighbor was chosen as a variable in order to determine the degree of Russia’s influence on the Belarusian political agenda as perceived by Belarusians, their attitude towards different types of institutional relations between the two states, and to assess how strong social ties between people living in Belarus and Russia are. A comprehensive analysis of the obtained data has proven that there is no regional cleavage in Belarusian society concerning Russia, except for expected differences in the attitude of Minsk residents and those living in other regions. Belarusians’ electoral behavior is influenced not by the region they live in but by their stable social practices such as trips to Russia, use of Russian media as a source of information, and of the “Russia” theme in the election campaign debates.
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EHONDOR, Beryl, and Christiana UNAKALAMBA. "Social Media for Crisis Communication in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak: A Study of NCDC." Journal of Media Research 14, no. 2 (40) (July 15, 2021): 45–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/jmr.40.3.
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Several scholars have studied social media use for crisis com- munication. However, few studies have been carried out to investigate so- cial media deployment during a public health crisis, such as the Corona- virus outbreak. This study accessed public awareness and engagement of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)’s social media use for crisis communications during the Coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria. It also as- sessed the influence of communication towards public positive behavioural adjustments. The study data was gathered via a survey of 400 citizens and Facebook users and analysed using excel and SPSS. The study found public awareness of the NCDC social media communications during the outbreak; there was also a public behavioural adjustment to NCDC’s recommended preventive behaviours. However, there was a low engagement in NCDC’s crisis communication via Facebook. The study reveals a high level of public uncertainty about NCDC Facebook communications and a change in public opinion about the Coronavirus. This study concludes that this situation could result from competing information about the Coronavirus on social media during the COVID outbreak and recommended further studies in this area. Findings are helpful for health communication policy reviews, strategic crisis communication assessments, appraisal of similar agencies, and further research.
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Wassermann, Sophia N., Edward J. Hind-Ozan, and Julia Seaman. "Reassessing public opinion of captive cetacean attractions with a photo elicitation survey." PeerJ 6 (November 20, 2018): e5953. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5953.
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Background Captive cetacean attractions are growing in number globally, their operators citing entertainment, education, and conservation as benefits. Those for and against developing such attractions claim public support. Previous public opinion research, however, shows little consensus, partly due to the introduction of biases in study design that influence participants’ responses. Those involved in, or concerned with, developing and licensing these attractions need to better understand what drives the lack of consensus to take socially-acceptable decisions. Methods We reviewed previous research on public opinion of cetacean captivity, noting possible sources of bias. Survey question wording can be a major source of introduced bias, so we used an open-ended photo elicitation approach. We showed tourists in the Turks Caicos Islands (N = 292) images of a marine mammal park (MMP) killer whale show and a swim-with-the-dolphins (SWTD) attraction and asked for their qualitative comments on the potential development of each. They also indicated how likely they would be to visit each on a Likert scale. Results Respondents were generally against visiting MMP killer whale shows, with 60.9% not likely to visit. SWTD attractions were more popular; 60.3% were likely to visit. For SWTD, USA residents were more likely to visit; older respondents and those staying in all-inclusive resorts were less likely. Those staying in all-inclusive resorts were also less likely to visit MMP killer whale shows. The great majority of qualitative comments centred on either entertainment value or animal welfare concerns. There were very few, if any, comments on the education or conservation value of these attractions. Discussion Our findings contradict several previous studies on public opinion of captive cetaceans that did not use photo elicitation. The support shown for MMP killer whale shows in this survey was well below that claimed by studies conducted on behalf of captive cetacean attraction operators. Opposition to SWTD was also noticeably lower than that found in surveys conducted with wild cetacean tourism participants. This difference can likely be attributed to the different survey populations and settings, but this variation is also very likely attributable to researcher-introduced bias. While photo selection can introduce bias, photo elicitation reduces reliance on pre-scripted questions and responses, and seems to effectively reduce other forms of bias. Allowing open-ended responses, where participants responded to an image, seems to have given a more representative understanding of what is at the forefront of the public’s mind than closed questioning. These conclusions, among others made in this study, suggest that development decisions for captive cetacean attractions are being made on imprecise data. Going forward, data collected via responder-led, open-ended, bias-minimising approaches should at least be considered when informing such decisions.
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Wiszmeg, Andréa, Susanne Lundin, Eva Torkelson, Niclas Hagen, and Cecilia Lundberg. "Difficult Questions and Ambivalent Answers on Genetic Testing." Culture Unbound 4, no. 3 (November 9, 2012): 463–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.124463.
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A qualitative pilot study on the attitudes of some citizens in southern Sweden toward predictive genetic testing – and a quantitative nation wide opinion poll targeting the same issues, was initiated by the Cultural Scientific Research Team of BAGADILICO. The latter is an international biomedical research environment on neurological disease at Lund University. The data of the two studies crystallized through analysis into themes around which the informants’ personal negotiations of opinions and emotions in relation to the topic centred: Concept of Risk,’Relations and Moral Multi-layers, Worry, Agency and Autonomy, Authority, and Rationality versus Emotion. The studies indicate that even groups of people that beforehand are non-engaged in the issue, harbour complex and ambivalent emotions and opinions toward questions like this. A certain kind of situation bound pragmatism that with difficulty could be shown by quantitative methods alone emerges. This confirms our belief that methodological consideration of combining quantitative and qualitative methods is crucial for gaining a more complex representation of attitudes, as well as for problematizing the idea of a unified public open to inquiry.
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Seliverstov, Vyacheslav I. "Punishment of Persons Convicted of Economic (Business) Crimes and Malfeasance in Office, in the Assessment of the Public and Professionals." Penitentiary science 15, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 613–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46741/2686-9764-2021-15-3-613-620.
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Introduction: the article considers ultra-liberal, ultra-radical and realistic views on the punishment of persons convicted of economic (business) crimes and malfeasance in office. The article analyzes public and professional opinion on this problem using the results of specific sociological studies conducted in 2018–2019 by Tkachevsky Research and Education Center “Problems of Penal Law” under Lomonosov Moscow State University. Research materials and methods: the research is based on the application of the specific sociological research method. The materials for our research include the results of the study of public and professional opinion on the punishment of those convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office, and on the places and conditions of their imprisonment. Empirical research includes surveys of three types of respondents: citizens of the Russian Federation; persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office who are serving sentences in correctional institutions; correctional officers. We also investigate proposals on sending the convicts under consideration to correctional institutions located in remote regions of Russia, and the prospects for the construction and opening of so-called private prisons for them. We analyze the practice of keeping persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office together with other categories of convicts. Results: we conclude that the public and professionals do not tend to hold extreme positions (ultra-liberal or ultra-radical) in the punishment of persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office. The public and professionals assess quite realistically the criminal policy of the state and judicial practice at the present stage of the state's development and allow, within certain limits, the application of punishment in the form of imprisonment to economic and official criminals. We emphasize that both categories of respondents (citizens and convicts) are more inclined to use imprisonment in relation to persons who have committed malfeasance in office than to those who committed economic crimes. We argue that public opinion is dissatisfied with the fact that persons convicted of malfeasance in office and economic crimes are kept together with other categories of convicts. There is no such dissatisfaction in the professional opinion: the majority of interviewed correctional officers do not support the idea of sending those convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office to separate correctional institutions. We put forward a proposal concerning the implementation of the idea that persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office should be held in separate correctional institutions in the course of modernization provided for by the Concept for development of the penal system of the Russian Federation until 2030, which consists in opening joint correctional institutions.
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PNIAK, Sylwester. "LAPIDAR PERCEPTION OF TERRORIST THREATS IN THE INSTITUTIONS OF EDUCATION." National Security Studies 15, no. 1 (December 13, 2018): 211–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37055/sbn/132158.
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The author attempts to bring closer the perception of terrorist threats in educational institutions. For the sake of objectivity of the analysis, he compiles the research carried out by the Public Opinion Research Center presenting the sense of security in the country and the perception of terrorist threats, and his own research carried out in some educational institutions. Analyzing the results and paying attention to the guidelines of the Ministry of National Education, he defines the construction of an initial plan of training activities as a part of the “Safe School” project.
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Сухачева, Анна, Anna Sukhacheva, Оксана Кочнева, Oksana Kochneva, А. Латфулина, and A. Latfulina. "SOCIOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AT THE REGIONAL AND MUNICIPAL LEVELS." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences 2018, no. 1 (February 25, 2018): 42–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2018-1-42-50.
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<p>The importance of using sociological knowledge in management is often underestimated. The same governing bodies, whose work is oriented to feedback, opinions, assessments, proposals of the managed subsystem, are in a more advantageous position, being more successful managers. The paper indicates the expediency of incorporating the results of sociological research into management processes, especially if it is the object of regional and municipal communities, as well as a review of the sociological research practice conducted by the Kuzbass Center for the Study of Public Opinion. Over the years of its functioning, the Center has conducted more than 600 sociological studies to provide the Kemerovo region administrations and municipalities with a feedback that would enable them to adopt balanced managerial decisions. Almost 30 years of experience clearly demonstrates the usefulness of sociological information to solve both specific problems (i.e. evaluation of planned activities, projects, attitude to the activities of individual structures, leaders, etc.), and long-term goals, such as improving social security or quality of life.</p>
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Dos Santos, Luis. "Rural Public Health Workforce Training and Development: The Performance of an Undergraduate Internship Programme in a Rural Hospital and Healthcare Centre." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 7 (April 9, 2019): 1259. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071259.
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Workforce shortages in the field of public health and healthcare are significant. Due to the limitations of career opportunities and compensation, rural hospitals and healthcare centres usually have on-going career openings for all departments. As a result, university departments of public health and healthcare management, and rural hospitals and health centres may need to establish internship and training programmes for undergraduate senior-year students in order to provide opportunities and human resource opportunities for both students and public health professions. The research examined the performance, feedback, and opinions of a university-based one-year-long on-site internship training programme between a university public health and healthcare undergraduate department and a regional hospital and healthcare centre in a rural region in the United States. Individual interview data were collected from management trainees and focus group activities data were collected from hospital departmental supervisors who have completed this one-year-long on-site internship training programme. The results offered an assessment of performance and evaluation of how a one-year-long internship programme could be beneficial to hospitals and health centres in the areas of human resources, manpower management, and skill training to prospective professionals in rural and regional communities. Also, the study provided a blueprint and alternative for universities and partnered sites to redesign and improve their current internship programmes which may better fit their needs for their actual situations.
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Ефанов, А., and A. Efanov. "Media Image and Political Image: Patterns of Two Constructs Correlation." Scientific Research and Development. Modern Communication Studies 8, no. 5 (September 24, 2019): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5d77699739ffb6.83949003.
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The article examines the phenomenon of media image and political image. The material for the study was the media representation of V. Zhirinovsky and K. Sobchak as candidates for the presidency of Russian Federation in the fields of television (in the information and socio-political programs of First Channel, ARTRBC (“Russia 1”, “Russia 24”), NTV, “RenTV”, Fifth Channel, “TV Center”) and the Internet (materials of news portals “RIA News”, “REGNUM”, “TASS”, “Interfax”, “Izvestia”, “Vedomosti”, “Meduza”; posts in social networks “VKontakte”, “Facebook”). The methods of contentanalysis, intent-analysis (through the system “Medialogia”), secondary data analysis — the results of sociological studies of All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (ARPORC), Public Opinion Foundation (POF), Levada Center and the presidential elections in Russia. Chronological framework of the study: November 2017 — March 2018. The author comes to the conclusion about the existence of interdependence and conditional identity of the phenomenon of political image and media image, which influence the construction of each other. At the same time, excessive mediatization of political actors (outside the respective ritualized locales and contexts) leads to their self-discredit — the loss of the “credibility” of both the potential and the real electorate.
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Piché, Justin. "“Going Public”: Accessing Data, Contesting Information Blockades." Canadian journal of law and society 26, no. 3 (December 2011): 635–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjls.26.3.635.
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Among prison scholars it is well known that access to penal institutions for the purposes of conducting research is not a given. For instance, in the Canadian context, some social researchers have been effectively barred from conducting studies inside prisons or have had to modify their research designs in order to enter the carceral. The ability to obtain unpublished records on imprisonment policies and practices in Canada has also been cited as a cumbersome process that often results in non-disclosure of the documents sought.Beyond data collection, social researchers have also raised concerns about the challenges of communicating their findings to publics outside the academy. In criminology, in particular, scholars have been concerned with the perceived lack of influence academic work has had on public policy and public opinion. These interventions, while not novel, have resulted in calls for a public criminology, renewing a discussion on how to disseminate research to non-academic audiences.Although much of the access to information literature is focused on the techniques used to obtain data as well as the barriers encountered during the process, and the public criminology literature is centred principally around the question of how to reach and influence those outside the halls of the university, few have examined how data collection and dissemination activities shape subsequent information flows. Here, I am not referring to the moments when and sites where the “policing of criminological knowledge” occur that mediate access to data sources and diffusion opportunities based on the epistemological orientations and political agendas of gatekeepers.