Dental composition modified with aryloxyphosphazene containing carboxyl groups

A modifier consisting of the mixture of cyclotriphosphazenes containing 4-allyl-2-methoxyphenoxy and β-carboxyethenylphenoxy moieties was developed for administration with acrylate dental restorative compositions. The synthesized compounds were characterized by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometr

Capitalising on faith? An intergenerational study of social and religious capital among Baby Boomers and Millennials in Britain

This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recordIntergenerational inequalities in economic security, health, and political participation are frequently associated with inequalities in access to social capital. Millennials (those born…) are often regarded as the least civically active generation, suggesting that they have less access to social capital, compared to other generations. Numerous studies have linked the decline of religion with falling social capital, as younger generations are deprived of a valuable source of social interaction; others, however, have claimed the link between the two is spurious because Millennials have developed different ways of interacting with social institutions and each other. Despite various studies exploring links between forms of religious and social capital, the role of religious decline in contributing to the intergenerational inequalities of today remains unclear. This study examines how religious capital is related to social capital for Baby Boomers and Millennials in the UK. Our analysis shows that while lower levels of religious capital are contributing to lower levels of social capital among Millennials, religious activity is also a more effective source of social capital for Millennials than their elders. We discuss possible interpretations of our data, including exploring whether greater religious engagement among Millennials may protect against intergenerational inequality and conflict.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC

British Election Longitudinal News Study 2015–2019: Print news coverage with validated topics and candidate sentiment

The British Election Longitudinal News Study 2015–2019 (BELNS) covers campaign coverage relating to three general elections: 2015, 2017, 2019. The print newspaper component in this release tracks topic and general election candidate coverage across 46 national and local sources, including actor-level sentiment. For a full description, see Documentation.Corrected file version uploaded on 17-05-2021.The British Election Longitudinal News Study 2015–2019 (BELNS) covers campaign coverage relating to three general elections: 2015, 2017, 2019. The print newspaper component in this release tracks topic and general election candidate coverage across 46 national and local sources, including actor-level sentiment.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC

The politics of heroes through the prism of popular heroism

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Palgrave Macmillan via the DOI in this record.In modern day Britain, the discourse of national heroification is routinely utilised by politicians, educationalists and cultural industry professionals, whilst also being a popular concept to describe deserving ‘do-gooders’ who contribute to British society in a myriad of ways. We argue that although this heroification discourse is enacted as a discursive device of encouraging politically and morally desirable behaviour, it is dissociated from the largely under-explored facets of contemporary popular heroism. To compensate for this gap, this paper explores public preferences for heroes using survey data representative of British adults. This analysis demonstrates a conceptual stretching in the understanding of heroism, and allows identifying age- and gender-linked dynamics which effect public choices of heroes. In particular, we demonstrate that age above all determines the preference for having a hero, but does not explain preferences for specific hero-types. The focus on gender illustrates that the landscape of popular heroism reproduces a male-dominated bias which exists in the wider political and cultural heroification discourse. Simultaneously, our study shows that if national heroification discourse in Britain remains male-centric, the landscape of popular heroism is characterised by a gendered trend towards privatisation of heroes being particularly prominent amongst women. In the conclusion, this paper argues for a conceptual revision and re-gendering of the national heroification discourse as a step towards both empirically grounded, and age- and gender-sensitive politics of heroes and heroines.AHR

Heroes as harbingers of social change: Gender, race, and hero choice in the USA and Britain

This is the author accepted manuscriptAcknowledging the importance of heroes in the framing of political identities and building on the expanding interdisciplinary scholarship, this paper offers a novel approach by situating the analysis of public choices of heroes within debates on social change, and, specifically, inclusion and diversity politics. Utilising an original dataset of two individual-level, nationally representative surveys of British and US adults, we demonstrate that the landscape of popular heroism in both countries is shaped by limited acceptance of traditionally under-represented groups such as women and ethnic minorities. Using rigorous testing and regression analysis, we highlight the endurance of a white male hero whose dominance is only challenged through preferences for same-sex and same-race/ethnicity hero-figures, with both trends signposting the symbolic boundaries of embracing the difference. Overall, this paper highlights a critical role of popular heroes in advancing inclusion and diversity agendas and urges for further empirical research on the socio-political functions, and gender, race-specific drivers of heroism.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)Swansea Universit

Appendix for ‘Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain’, by Ekaterina Kolpinskaya and Stuart Fox

This appendix contains the outputs of our analysis in tabular formats, including descriptive statistics, regression analysis and Structural Equation Models for the book entitled '‘Religion and Euroscepticism in Brexit Britain’'. They are organised by chapter (covering the empirical Chapters 3 to 6) and linked to the main text by referencing their respective figures

The Fabric of International Jurisprudence: An interdisciplinary encounter

Bringing together a variety of outlooks from comparative law, legal theory, organizational sociology, socio-legal studies or political science, this Joint Working Papers explores the cognitive equipment through which international judges perform their role. The notion of 'fabric', borrowed from the Science and technology studies, and Bruno Latour in particular, is used here as a common entrypoint enabling to consider altogether the (legal and non-legal, formal and unformal) tools and templates that contribute to shape international judicial decision-making: 'best practices', judicial compendia, routinized legal repertoires, legal methodologies, standard operational modes, etc…-- Antoine Vauchez, Introduction 1 -- Part 1. Actors and Know-How 3 -- Antoine Vauchez, The European Themis and its Social Fabric. Review, Reflections and New Directions for Studies of the European Court of Justice 5 -- Iyiola Solanké, The Advocate General and the Practices of International Jurisprudence 15 -- Cristina Dallara, The Definition of ‘Best Judicial Practices’ by Judicial and Legal Expert Networks and Commissions 21 -- Part 2. Methods and Tools 33 -- Bilyana Petkova, The Role of Majoritarian Activism in Precedent Formation at the European Court of Human Rights 35 -- Jérome Porta, La formulation des interprétations par la Cour de Justice de l'Union européenne 45 -- Bas van Bockel, The Realisation of the ne bis in idem Principle in the European Union 5

Local Elections in England, 2015

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The data collection is produced by the University of Exeter Q-Step staff and students in collaboration with the Electoral Reform Society who provided the initial coding frame. It includes the ward- and council-level data summarising the results of the 2015 local elections in England. It was collected from local council web-sites and through direct contacts with the Returning Officers where the electoral results were not publicly available. The ward-level dataset includes the electoral results for 5708 wards, their geographical identifiers and the gender of successful and unsuccessful candidates by party. The council-level data includes the electoral results for 279 local authorities merged with the ONS socio-demographic data. The data collection is unique since there has been no attempt to report the results of the 2015 local election in a single dataset. It will be of interest for political scientists, political parties and anyone interested in the statistical analysis of local election results – a topic particularly salient in the light of the forthcoming local elections in May 2016

Media effects & news exposure: new forms of data to address old questions

Thirty years ago, research trying to establish relationships between media exposure, political attitudes and behavior was described as, “one of the most notable embarrassments of modern social science” (1993, 267). Yet much has changed since then, both in terms of the media landscape and the way in which individuals engage with news. While these changes, including the rise of 24-hour news channels, web 2.0 and social media, have complicated “media exposure”, they also offer opportunities to gauge exposure in different, and potentially less error-prone, ways. In this chapter, we consider the promise of web-tracking (or Clickstream) methods, in which the websites participants visit are unobtrusively monitored via software. We outline what these methods entail and, using examples from our own research during the EU Referendum in 2016 in the United Kingdom, consider their strengths and weaknesses for media effects research, including the new ethical challenges they present for researchers

Does religion count for religious parliamentary representation? Evidence from Early Day Motions

AcceptedArticleThe article addresses one facet of the representation puzzle, namely substantive minority representation in the UK House of Commons. It examines if a religious Jewish and Muslim minority background stimulates politicians from these backgrounds to address issues of concern for Jewish and Muslim minority groups in Early Day Motions (EDMs), and compares the effects from identity-based and institutional predictors. The study draws upon previous studies that used low-cost parliamentary activities to assess the impact of gender and ethnic minority identities on the representation of women and ethnic minorities, employing quantitative content analysis and time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data analysis to examine the content of EDMs sponsored by MPs from Jewish and Muslim background (plus a control group) between 1997 and 2012. The analyses test for the effects of religious background and institutional predictors on the likelihood of referring to minority issues. They show that identity-based predictors such as a religious background are vastly inferior to institutional factors, including a legislative role, representing a constituency with the significant proportion of minority population, and the length of parliamentary service, in determining such references