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Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram The Imagine Europe project has been collecting data since the summer on how the UK’s relationship with the EU is talked about on Twitter. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram present an update on the hashtags used in the debate and the sentiments associated with them. Strasbourg Plenary October 2015, European …
Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram The Imagine Europe project explores how people use social media to talk about the UK’s relationship with the EU. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram report on a recent data science event in Edinburgh in which the project participated. LinkedIn Maps Data Visualisation, Luc Legay, CC-BY-SA-2.0 This week the Imagine Europe …
Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In discussions on the mass movement of people from the Mediterranean Basin to Europe, the choice of words can play an important role. Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram explore how users on Twitter make use of the terms ‘migrant’ and ‘refugee’ in the debate. P-GRC0233, IFRCRCS, CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 The movement of …
Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram In the context of the UK’s referendum on membership of the EU, Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram are investigating how people use social media to talk about the UK-EU relationship. They provide the first update on the project, which has a presence on Storify, explaining the process of building a dataset …
Jeremy Richardson Interest groups follow power to its source and, with the progressive transfer of policy-making from national to European level, the network of interest groups in Brussels has intensified over time, writes Jeremy Richardson. He argues that their lobbying has eroded the ability of national governments to set policy agendas and that many interest …
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh Public debate on the economic and financial situation in Greece has intensified in recent weeks, writes Cormac Mac Amhlaigh. He remarks on the Eurozone’s difficulty in agreeing a third programme for Greece and he outlines potential reforms to the governance of the Eurozone to ensure the sustainability of the single currency. My …
Laura Cram European integration has long been rooted in practical arguments instead of overarching visions, writes Laura Cram. She suggests that this course has allowed for various meanings of Europe to develop to suit different national debates, in which the idea of the EU is often used selectively to support the political narratives of the …
Jo Shaw Faced with recent events at home and abroad, the UK’s political system needs to adapt to ensure prosperity and to bolster democratic legitimacy, writes Jo Shaw. She argues that devolution to cities might be a viable option to achieve these objectives, while also maintaining a balance in the UK’s complicated territorial politics. Great …
