the perception that one’s opinion is unpopular tends toinhibitor discourage one’s expression of it, while the perception that it is popular tends to have the opposite effect. Developed by German survey and communication researcherElisabeth Noelle-Neumann in the 1960s and ’70s, thespiralof sile...
It's a Sunday morning in 2009, and I'm standing under the shower in a hotel room in Lyon. Rain drums against the window; at the end of a narrow street, I can just see one of the two rivers that flow through the city. In an hour, I'm due at city hall to participate in a p...
The same quantities disaggregated for cases when absolute or simple majorities are reached, are also reported in the middle and bottom panels, respectively. With a few exceptions, the effects of abstention on minority seems always positive in terms of preference representation (average gps reduction)...