2. What is a referendum? 关于公投 A referendum is basically a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part, normally giving a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question. Whichever side gets more than...
Result of the Brexit referendum 2016, by number of votes cast Brexit votes in the United Kingdom by gender 2016 Brexit votes in the UK by age 2016 Brexit votes by region in the UK 2016 Results of key votes on Brexit in the UK House of Commons 2019-2020 Support for different EU trading...
By applying a simple age-adjusted mapping to the overall Twitter stance, the results show the prevalence of the pro-Brexit voters, something unexpected by most of the opinion polls. Second, we apply the Hirsch index to estimate the influence, and rank the Twitter users from both camps. We ...
The proportion of people expected the economy to fare better over the next six months as a result of the referendum result has edged higher from 11.8% in August to 12.4% in November, while the proportion seeing economic prospects to have worsened has dipped from 54.4% to 53.1%...
If Boris Johnson wins, the government will honor the results of the 2016 referendum and extricate the United Kingdom from the European Union. If the other parties win enough seats to block a Tory majority, they almost certainly will undo Brexit, presumably by setting up a rigged second referen...
“A referendum on Irish unity will be absolutely essential”, she says, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. “We have a situation where the North of Ireland take a democratic decision, they reject Brexit, and yet, due to the sovereignty of Westminster, Brexit can be imposed.” ...
While those who were just below voting age by mere days were not allowed to vote on this even though they have more of a stake in the election than those who basically are in God's waiting room. The whole referendum was designed from the ground up by Cameron to give the leave vote ...
But there was some frustration among people too young to vote in the Brexit referendum and he is now tapping into these grievances. Labour and Liberal Democrats are also supporting the move, for similar reasons. Their electorate is traditionally younger, so lowering the voting age could bring ...
I investigate how sentiment contributed to the build-up of volatility of the constituents of the FTSE100 in the aftermath of the ”yes” to the UK Brexit referendum of Thursday June 23, 2016. Sentiment is estimated as the sensitivity of stock volatility to market and exchange rate volatility,...
The UK government has committed itself to implementing the outcome of the June 23, 2016, referendum, when voters opted to leave the European Union. The big question is: what next? Most forecasts of how Brexit will affect the economy are pessimistic. Yet the economy has long faced challenges,...