A5015055725- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Media Influence and Politics
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Social Media and Politics
- Regional Development and Policy
- Global Health Care Issues
- Housing Market and Economics
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
University of Warwick
2018-2024
University of Bath
2024
Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and latter suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level thousands respondents in Understanding Society, UK's largest household survey, which includes EU question. find that voting Leave is associated with older age, white ethnicity, low educational attainment, infrequent smartphones internet, receiving benefits, adverse...
This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate it with others, identifies cross-country differences, tests the extent to which economic sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are most used sources of in countries, except those democratic-corporatist systems where news tend be more widely. People collectivist societies less outspoken daily life, whereas low education is associated higher...
Previous analyses of the 2016 Brexit referendum used region-level data or small samples based on polling data. The former might be subject to ecological fallacy and latter suffer from small-sample bias. We use individual-level thousands respondents in Understanding Society, UK's largest household survey, which includes EU question. find that voting Leave is associated with older age, white ethnicity, low educational attainment, infrequent smartphones internet, receiving benefits, adverse...
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the complexity of multinational enterprise (MNE) ownership structures. Complex corporate structures raise concerns about effectiveness national and international investment policies, based on notion investors' nationality. This motivates this research effort, aimed at analysing some 700 000 foreign affiliates (FAs). A new methodology, bottom-up approach, is introduced. The main objective to empirically map "shareholder space" FAs, along...
Using estimates of support for Leave across UK local authority areas constructed from a comprehensive 20,000 strong survey, we show that both the level and geographic variation capturing differential degrees have changed significantly since 2016 EU referendum. A lot area characteristics, many which were previously associated with higher levels Leave, are now significant correlates swing towards Remain. They include, example, degree to authorities receive transfers or extent their economies...
Do opinion polls sway turnout and shape political competition in majoritarian systems? Can they strengthen the persistence of safe seats? Analysing national during UK general elections perceived safeness constituencies, we find that pre-election significantly affect voter turnout. Non-competitive predicted by suppress turnout, especially areas with low electoral competition. This reinforces advantage trailing parties their strongholds, potentially fuelling party demand for seats may give...
Do opinion polls sway turnout and shape political competition in majoritarian systems? Can they strengthen the persistence of safe seats? Analysing national during UK general elections perceived safeness constituencies, we find that pre-election significantly affect voter turnout. Non-competitive predicted by suppress turnout, especially areas with low electoral competition. This reinforces advantage trailing parties their strongholds, potentially fuelling party demand for seats may give...
Recent years have seen a significant increase in complexity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) ownership structures. Complex corporate structures raise concerns on the effectiveness national and international investment policies, based notion investors' nationality. This motivates this research effort aimed at analysing some 700 thousand foreign affiliates (FAs). A new methodology, bottom-up approach, is introduced. The main objective to empirically map "shareholder space" FAs, along...
A central challenge for social scientists consists in explaining why people vote and what are the consequences of their behaviour. Exploiting variation national opinion polls across UK general elections, degree safeness British constituencies over time, I provide evidence a significant impact pre-election on electoral outcomes shed light novel mechanism. find that affect voters' behaviour via interaction with recent history constituency: first, turnout decreases when predict non-competitive...
Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published has been retracted refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to a source misinformation. The media play an important role in drawing broader attention research, but also ensure that once retracted, ceases feature popular discourse. Yet, there is little evidence on whether reporting influences retraction process authors’ careers. Using conditional difference-in-differences strategy, this paper...