quinta-feira, julho 17, 2008
terça-feira, julho 15, 2008
Férias
Sondagem Católica para RTP/RDP/JN

sexta-feira, julho 04, 2008
quarta-feira, julho 02, 2008
Lisboa SOS
segunda-feira, junho 30, 2008
Previsões para as presidenciais americanas
(1) weighted-average growth of per capita real personal disposable income over the term, and (2) cumulative US military fatalities owing to unprovoked, hostile deployments of American armed forces in foreign conflicts.

Em suma: ninguém, com excepção de Norpoth em Janeiro passado, prevê outra coisa que não uma vitória dos Democratas nesta eleição. Vou actualizando isto com as novas previsões à medida que forem saindo.
domingo, junho 29, 2008
sexta-feira, junho 27, 2008
Novo ciclo

quarta-feira, junho 25, 2008
Ainda a Irlanda
We asked whether Lisbon would have compromised Ireland’s neutrality; made the practice of abortion more likely in Ireland; led to a change in tax on businesses; reduced Ireland’s influence on EU decisions; strengthened the protection of workers’ rights; caused even more unemployment; lost us our European Commissioner for some of the time; and finally, simplified decision-making in the EU. The results indicate that the No arguments seemed to have won the campaign. Substantial majorities agree with their interpretation over the interpretation of the Yes side. Even on abortion, where their arguments were rejected by the Electoral Commission, a significant minority (39 per cent) was concerned that abortion could be brought closer had Ireland voted Yes.
Those most uncertain about their economic future, due to perceived decline in their own living standards in the last year, also tended to vote No. These factors are outside anyone’s immediate capacity to address, although dissatisfaction with the government - equally high at the time of Nice II - is not necessarily associated with a rejection of an EU treaty, at least to the degree it is associated here. Nor is it the case that voters were simply rejecting Europe. Over 40 per cent of No voters supported even more integration over protecting our independence from the EU.
E um gráfico espantoso, que mostra - aqui sim de acordo com o meu argumento - que o problema não foi a abstenção: aqueles que não votaram eram ainda mais hostis ao Tratado. Mais informação sobre a sondagem pós-eleitoral aqui.
quinta-feira, junho 19, 2008
terça-feira, junho 17, 2008
E agora, para o que realmente interessa
Mas na Polónia, ainda assim, sim
Poles would back the European Union's Lisbon Treaty by a wide margin if it were put to a referendum, a newspaper reported Monday. A poll of 1,000 adults found 71 per cent of Poles said they would vote for the reform treaty, which Irish voters rejected in a referendum last week, the Dziennik daily said.
Na Holanda, também não
segunda-feira, junho 16, 2008
Leitura útil por estes dias
Are referendums on EU treaties decided by voters’ attitudes to Europe (the ‘issue-voting’ explanation) or by voters’ attitudes to their national political parties and incumbent national government (the ‘second-order election model’ explanation)? In one scenario, these referendums will approximate to deliberative processes that will be decided by people’s views of the merits of European integration. In the other scenario, they will be plebiscites on the performance of national governments. We test the two competing explanations of the determinants of voting in EU referendums using evidence from the two Irish referendums on the Nice Treaty. We find that the issue-voting model outperforms the second-order model in both referendums. However, we also find that issue-voting was particularly important in the more salient and more intense second referendum. Most strikingly, attitudes to EU enlargement were much stronger predictors of vote at Nice 2 than at Nice 1. This finding about the rise in importance of attitudes to the EU points to the importance of campaigning in EU referendums.
sexta-feira, junho 06, 2008
Adenda
Referendo Irlanda:
Irish Times /TNS mrbi poll:

Isto contrasta, apesar de tudo, com as sondagens da Red C que tenho divulgado aqui. Aqui, chama-se a atenção para a diferença na formulação das perguntas. E toda a campanha fala em "Lisbon Treaty", em vez de "Reform Treaty"...
Uma coisa é certa: quando mais tempo dura a campanha, menos indecisos e mais "nãos".




