Results Of Poll Research Articles

Ti-Pure Poll finds cost greatest challenge to sustainability in coatings

On November 3, 2021, the Chemours Company, a global chemistry company, producing among other things Ti-Pure™ TiO2 for coatings, plastics, and laminates, released its coatings sustainability poll results, finding that 63 percent of coatings professionals identify balancing sustainability and cost as their greatest challenge to advancing sustainability in their coatings design. More than 220 coatings professionals completed the poll during the 2021 European Coatings Show Conference (ECS) and European Coatings Journal (ECJ) webinar.

THE STOCK PURCHASE STRATEGY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Since the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2020, the Composite Stock Price Index (JCI) has decreased by minus 18.3% (idx.channel.okezone.com) and this is almost completely evenly distributed across several trading floors in the world. The urgency (priority) of this research is to be able to add a new perspective on the business environment analysis model as an investment strategy in determining and determining stock purchase decisions appropriately while considering internal and external business environmental factors that are able to dynamically influence investors' perceptions in minimizing losses on their portfolio of shares. This research method is a qualitative descriptive method. The key informants in this study were the manager of mutual securities in Bandung, the manager of UOB Kay Han Securities in the Bandung branch, and the manager of the securities in the Bandung branch. The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) noted that the stock investor base, which incidentally is the millennial generation, has reached 60% of the total stock investors on the IDX. However, the results of a New Harris poll through the Stash application as quoted from the Financial Services Authority (OJK), almost 80% of young people do not even look at investing in the stock market. As many as 34% of the younger generation stated that they were reluctant to invest in stocks because the working system in the stock market was too difficult to learn or understand. Yes, you know, there are many terms in the capital market, especially stocks, such as bullish, bearish, and many others. Based on an interview with the Manager of Danareksa Sekuritas Branch Bandung as an informant, starting a stock investment is very easy. Capital for investment is currently starting from Rp. 100 thousand. No need to deposit millions of rupiah, just learn stock on the website, join trainings or enter capital market school. Self-taught learning can also be done by asking friends who have already entered the capital market or reading books and finding out on the internet. For stock investment, you must understand the basic knowledge first. Starting from learning to read the movement of the Composite Stock Price Index (JCI), when is the right time to buy or sell shares, to learning strategies and mitigating the risk of loss. To analyze and choose a strategy for buying shares during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are two basic approaches, namely : Fundamental Analysis Strategy and Technical Analysis Strategy.

Climate change: Will the parties unite or divide?

Climate change: Will the parties unite or divide?

Welfare-improving misreported polls

We introduce an electoral pollster in the canonical pivotal voting model and show that the misreporting of pre-election poll results can happen even in the absence of partisan motives, as long as reputational concerns are present. By underreporting the expected number of supporters of the most preferred candidate in society, the pollster can induce an election result more likely to be in line with its report. By doing so, not only victory chances of the most preferred candidate rise above 50%, thus breaking the unrealistic neutrality result of the pivotal voting model, but also total election costs are reduced, thus yielding welfare gains and partially offsetting the expected negative effect of polls on welfare (see Goeree and Großer in Econ Theory 31:51–68, 2007; Taylor and Yildirim in Games Econ Behav 68:353–375, 2010). Our model also allows for the simultaneous accommodation of the underdog effect (a feature of pivotal voting models) and the apparently inconsistent bandwagon effect, in the sense that the latter can actually be understood as an illusion due to the possibility of misreporting being overlooked. All of these results hold even as the electorate size grows without bound.

Geopolitical election of the Republic of Moldova. a study based on the example of the early parliamentary elections (2021)

For a long time, the key topic in the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Moldova is the geopolitical choice between West and East, integration with the European Union or with the Russian Federation. This is reflected in the confrontation between political parties, the split of political elites and Moldovan society along geopolitical lines. Furthemore this problem had an outlet not only to the foreign policy of Moldova, but also reflected in the domestic policy of the country. Representatives of the state-forming ethnic group - Moldovans - were more often supporters of European integration, while representatives of ethnic minorities more often identified themselves with an orientation towards Russia. The purpose of this article is to analyze the geopolitical choice of the Republic of Moldova using the example of the early parliamentary elections on July 11, 2021. Taking into account the specifics of the elections, the study is focused on reflecting the problem of geopolitical choice in the electoral platforms of Moldovan electoral competitors. Based on the results of early parliamentary elections and sociological polls, the authors analyze the attitude of the Moldovan population to various geopolitical projects - integration with the European Union or the Eurasian Economic Union. The study showed that in the parliamentary (2021) elections in the Republic of Moldova, the problem of geopolitical choice was not a dominant topic. The idea of combating corruption, reforming justice, which was promoted by the winning Action and Solidarity Party and the President of the Republic of Moldova M. Sandu, became the main idea that determined the victory in the elections and united various ethnic groups. Moldovan public opinion indicates an increase in the number of supporters of integration into the European Union and, accordingly, a decrease in interest in the Customs Union, a Russian geopolitical project.

How COVID-19 Has Influenced the Purchase Patterns of Young Adults in Developed and Developing Economies: Factor Analysis of Shopping Behavior Roots

The paper presents survey results from shopping behavior transformation in developed and developing countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in spring 2020. The survey includes the polling process that covered 515 and 117 young adults, respectively, for two economies and factor analysis to determine the latent intentions of purchase behavior. Shopping patterns were studied for food, medicine, goods of first priority, electronics, clothing, and shoes. According to factor analysis results, we determined nine factors that reveal some similarities in shopping behavior as pro-safe purchases and belt-tightening patterns for both economies. Along with that, we revealed that people from developed countries perceived the greater danger and fear due to the COVID-19 crisis than young adults from developing economy. Based on polling results, the post–COVID-19 shopping channel choice behavior was evaluated for developed and developing economies.

Public opinion exists, but is it always detectable?

The article examines the problem of the reliability of the results of public opinion polls, taking into account the fact that the respondents’ answers, due to various reasons, do not always reflect their true opinion. The article presents the results of an expert survey, during which experts assessed the extent of deviations in the results of public opinion polls due to the tendency of respondents to give “conformist” answers, caused by the fear of expressing views that may be punished by the authorities, in various situations: when conducting surveys in the regions of Ukraine, which are controlled by the Ukrainian authorities; if surveys are conducted by Ukrainian research institutions in the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia; if survey are conducted by Russian research institutions in the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia; when surveys are conducted in the territory of Russia. Both the results of the analysis of poll studies and the results of an expert survey indicate that there is always a problem in public opinion polls of the insincerity of respondents’ answers and a systematic error caused by the bias of the sample in the direction of respondents “loyal to the government” or respondents who consider themselves to be in the “ideological majority”. This problem is significantly exacerbated in the conditions of strengthening authoritarian tendencies in society or an atmosphere of intolerance, including that caused by war. Under certain circumstances, these factors can significantly reduce the reliability of the results of public opinion polls. The magnitude of the shift in survey results caused by the influence of these factors will vary significantly depending on changes in the socio-psychological atmosphere of society, the subject of research and questions, and the level of their sensitivity.

INTERNET ENVIRONMENT AS A FACTOR OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL FORMATION OF A STUDENT

The article is aimed at analysis of the impact, made by the Internet on a person and the personal development in the multicultural educational environment. The professional foreign-language teaching, which implies students’ interaction with the informational Internet resources, forms the basis of the research. The Internet environment is considered as the factor of the social and personal development because of its educational influence on students and contribution to their professional upbringing, their Russian citizenship. Having analyzed the results of the opinion poll, we have revealed the areas, which are necessary to be researched in terms of the social behavior, based on the personal Russian civic participation in the Internet environment.

Attitude of the Population to the Activities of National Parks: Territorial Aspect (on the Example of a Survey of Residents of the Khorug and Murgab Region)

The article describes and interprets the results of a study aimed at studying public opinion about the activities of national parks. The attitude of the local population to the activities of the State Institution “National Park of Tajikistan” was studied. A total of 40 respondents from local residents were surveyed. Fifteen local residents of Khorog, most of them educated people, students of Khorog University and teachers of the Biological Institute of the Pamirs who are familiar with the Tajik National Park in the vicinity have carried out several scientific studies. Twenty-five respondents of the residents of the Murghab district are directly the population who live in the park. They have less education, and they are more prone to a rural lifestyle, and livestock far more knowledgeable about the Tajik National Park than the residents of Khorog. Interviewed residents of the Murgab and Karakuls villages believe that the activities of the Tajik National Park should be more efficient and lay down ways to improve its activities and form a positive image. In their opinion, the employees of the national park should interact more with the local population, take into account their interests, improve information carrying out activities of the national park. Proceeding from the answers of the respondents, we can conclude that the Tajik national park is already widely known to the circle of researchers and scientific applicants as a place or testing ground for research. For the local populations who live in the park, they use it as a place for animal husbandry and natural resources. During the survey, it turned out that the park is currently being used by all means, but not protected in any way. The results of a public opinion poll conducted in the September of 2021 in the settlements of the Khorug town of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast GBAO region, belonging to the central ecological zone of the Pamir natural territory, are presented. The attitude of the local population to the activities of the Tajik Nation Park was studied. Interviewed residents believe that the activities of the Tajik National Park should be more efficient and lay down ways to improve its activities and form a positive image.

Scientific networks of young political scientists as a tool of “soft power”: Opportunities and limitations

The article is about the development of the connections of young political scientists with the international scientific community in the context of the Russian academic policy. With the help of the network analysis the authors examine the capacity of young political scientists’ network as agents of soft power, as well as the external factors that affect youth political scientists’ community. The article presents results of the all-Russia poll about the most effective ways to engage the youth to acquiring new knowledge and skills, and the role of political scientists’ organizations in developing and enhancing international interaction. Using SWOT-analysis the authors analyze the opportunities and the challenges on the way of creating scientific network among young political scientists from around the world, evaluate government and NGO engagement in the process of enhancing such communications. Germany and the US are the model cases that were studied in the context. The trend for these two countries is the use of NGO financing of researchers, internship and exchange programs. The authors conclude that governmental support of NGOs, easing the laws and additional funding can be the opportunity for developing the Russian young political scientists’ community both in Russia and abroad.

The Similarity Index: A New and Simple Algorithm to Measure Coherence in Polls <br/>—A Case Study Where the Students Evaluate Assessments in a General Chemistry Course

Assessments have been a crucial part of the process of learning and teaching. Most of the time, this process has been measured with summative assessments but what about formative ones? Historically, the teacher chooses the appropriate assessment for his/her class. However, what do the students have to say about that? In this case study, we present the results of a Likert-type poll for five assessments applied in a General Chemistry course. Students gave their answers according to three measurable intended aspects: the cognitive, the emotional and the social. To measure the coherence of those three aspects a similarity index was created. This instrument, together with the Likert-type poll, allowed us to advise which assessment should be accepted or rejected according to the student’s point of view. From a variety of assessments, the student selected the following increasing raking of assessments: Short Multiple-Choice Questions, General Questions/Answers Out Loud and Prediction-Observation-Explanation.

Dynamic of support for social changes in Ukraine and confessional belonging: is there a connection?

The social changes that have taken place in Ukraine since independence are determined by the activities of various social actors. One such actor may be religious organizations (Churches), which include most Ukrainian believers. The expectation of such influence, especially in the direction of contributing to the building of an independent nation state, is common among politicians and public activists. However, the results of the public opinion polls show that the dominant Church in Ukraine (OCU, UOC, UGCC) has practically no influence on the changes in the orientations of the population to the restructuring of the social system. Indicators such as the idea of the role of the State in the economy and the possibility/impossibility of the free sale of land, support for the movement of Ukraine towards the EU and the Union of Russia and Belarus, awareness of State independence, national and cultural revival, the democratic development as personal values, the predominance of national identity, has changed in almost the same way over the last 20 years in groups of different Churches and non-religious people. This situation allows us to assert that changes in mass orientations about the basic components of social change are due to the action of various social factors unrelated to the positions of the dominant Churches.

Discursive aspect of the trustworthiness of empirical sociological knowledge

The published results of public opinion polls cease to be the subject of narrow professional discussion and become part of public discourse, which reflects the attitude of the non-sociological community to the trustworthiness of empirical sociological knowledge in the form of mass polls. The trustworthiness of empirical sociological knowledge in public space for the general public is determined by the level of confidence in the published data of mass surveys and is achieved by the methodological culture of the surveyor, which is embodied in compliance with all requirements for empirical research, including tools; the level of factual knowledge of respondents; effective participation of pollster-sociologists in the analytical interpretation of the obtained results, reasoned explanation of the answers of survey participants to socially significant questions. Publicity of the customer is also important for polls on electoral and sensitive socio-political issues. Accordingly, markers of the trustworthiness of empirical sociological knowledge in public discourse can be marked out based on two basic criteria: the transparency of the survey and the heuristic potential of the toolkit. Transparency implies maximum publicity of the algorithm for collecting empirical sociological information, including the calculation of the error of the results obtained, the publication of not only the performer but also the customer of the survey. Public information about the performer allows the public to judge his professional reputation, authority, political neutrality, (in) dependence on certain political or business entities. The heuristic potential of the toolkit provides an opportunity to thoroughly explain the results to the public, to clarify the level of factual knowledge of respondents on the subject of the survey. Under such conditions, the surveyor can adequately explain to the non-sociological community possible contradictory results, especially in the case of sensitive socio-political issues.

ПРОБЛЕМА МОЖЛИВОСТІ ДІАЛОГУ І ВЗАЄМОРОЗУМІННЯ З «РУССКИМ МИРОМ»

In the article, the Author analyzes the problem of "deafness" and "blindness" in relation to the realities of the Russian-Ukrainian war. These phenomena are characteristic of everyone involved in the "Russian world", regardless of origin, including ethnic Ukrainians. They cannot be explained only by powerful propaganda. The author believes that it should be about the inability of individual "functionalists" of the "Russian world" to think independently, to understand the positions of the bearers of other worldview paradigms, to fully communicate. The Internet contains tens of thousands of examples that clearly confirm the validity of the theses outlined above. Telephone conversations of Russian soldiers between themselves and with their loved ones, which were intercepted, testify to the same. Adequate assessment of the situation is often characteristic of representatives of the Russian so-called "opposition elite". The results of sociological polls, regularly conducted by the independent "Levada Center", also testify to the inability of the absolute majority of the population of Russia to understand reality, replacing such an understanding with the reproduction of the dogmas of the "Russian world". The author believes that this is explained primarily by the nature of the existing social order in Russia. This system is often called authoritarian or "extreme version of authoritarianism". From this, it is concluded that it is enough to achieve a change of power, the dismantling of the repressive apparatus and the cessation of propaganda, so that Russia moves on the path to democracy. Such a theoretical position seems wrong, since it should be about totalitarianism. Authoritarianism is a political regime, and totalitarianism is a comprehensive socio-political order, and this concept is much broader than a regime. The main difference here is that a totalitarian mythological reality has established itself in Russia, which cannot be rationally deconstructed and abolished by some political act; it can only be destroyed together with the Russian/Soviet Empire. The bulk of Russians are completely immersed in this mythical reality, which is both their external and internal world. Therefore, not only a full-fledged dialogue, but even any communication is impossible, neither with Putin personally, nor with the "collective Putin", which makes up the majority of the population of Russia. What Ukraine and the world need is not the preservation of imperial Russia, even in a simplified version, but its final and complete dismantling.

Region social capital: institutional and social and cultural resources for the development of human capital in the republics of Tyva and Khakassia

Social capital, which is considered as a resource of human and physical capital, is increasingly positioned as one of the most significant factors in the development of modern society, especially local, regional, striving, in view of objective reasons and limitations, to use all available development resources. The South Siberian republics of Tyva and Khakassia, which still show low indicators of economic growth and the human development index, rarely fell into the focus of research interest in terms of analyzing the characteristics and dynamics of the functioning of social capital. The article examines the general conceptual approaches and particular methodological developments of domestic and foreign authors to the analysis of social capital. The main goal of the study, which is to analyze the features of the functioning of the components of the regional social capital of the South Siberian republics, is achieved by combining private indicators (index of trust capital, norms and values, social networks). As an empirical basis for the study, we used the results of opinion polls in 2013, 2016 and 2019 in the Republics of Tyva and Khakassia according to a standardized program (sample population: Khakassia — 520 people, Tuva — 290 people). The results of the study allow us to draw a well-grounded conclusion that the strongest component of the region’s social capital is the capital of values and norms, which is a consequence of the formation of a stable norm of tolerance and universal morality system, a stable complementarity of interethnic and cultural relations. The processes of actualization of alternative national identities, the preservation of tension in interethnic relations remain the risk space with low indices of the development of open social capital; decrease in trust and satisfaction with the activities of the authorities and preservation of a predominantly conformist model of social and political behavior of the region inhabitants. The priority of the federal and regional authorities, as well as civil society institutions and local self-government bodies, should be to increase the level of trust in them by the residents of the region.

Názory obyvateľov Slovenska na obranu štátu - dobrovoľnosť verzus povinnosť

Nowadays, the topic of national defence is relevant not only for professionalsNowadays, the topic of national defence is relevant not only for professionalsbut also for the wider public. In connection with the war conflict in Ukraine,the public perception of security has changed in Slovakia as well, and it isnecessary to pay attention to the state of public opinion in this area. In thisarticle, we will present basic information about the conscription itself and theimportance of voluntariness in the defence of the state, as highlighted by thenew Concept of Preparation of the Population for the Defence of the State,and in the light of the results of the latest public opinion polls of the Ministryof Defence, we will focus in particular on the awareness of the populationabout the conscription, the state of their willingness to defend their country,and the subsequent interpretation of the most significant results.

Spanish public image of the EU regional policy

The article is devoted to the analysis of the perception of European integration and the regional policy of the European Union (EU) among the citizens of modern Spain. Particular attention is paid to the comparison of periods before the COVID-19 pandemic (2019) and after it (October 2021). The purpose of this paper is to identify the opinion of Spanish society on the EU regional policy. The first part of the article presents the analytical framework of the study. The second part describes its methodology. The third part analyzes the opinion polls in Spain, conducted by Eurobarometer. According to the Eurobarometer database, on the one hand, the author notes despite the pandemic, citizens positively assess the impact of the European Union bodies on their everyday life. On the other hand, the pandemic has shown that the states are key actors in the EU decision-making process. The initiative to shape the development of the EU's regional policy still belongs to the Member States, but not to the regions and/or supranational bodies. The scientific significance of the article is that the results of Eurobarometer public opinion polls are generalized. This is the first time when this approach has been used in the study of this topic.

Картографическая интерпретация исследования сельского образа жизни в Крыму

The method of obtaining and cartographic interpretation of information revealed in the process of studying rural areas of Crimea is considered. The rural territories of this region are presented as an alternative space to the traditional recreational use of the Crimean Peninsula. This approach made it possible to single out the geoconcept “Other Crimea”. The boundaries of this territory have a complex—natural and administrative—character, which allowed us to identify key points of research with reference to the main landscape and geomorphological regions of Crimea. The program of research of rural territories of Crimea on two thematic blocks is proposed: identification of the transformational dynamics of the rural settlement system within the borders of the whole Crimea and identification of the problems of rural lifestyle within the “Other Crimea”. The result of the study of the spatial-temporal picture of the rural settlement system in the Crimea was the map “Rural settlement of Crimea”. The map illustrates the changes in the population of rural settlements and the density of rural settlement according to the results of the 1989–2014 censuses. Conclusions are drawn about the reduction of the network of rural settlements and depopulation of Crimean villages in the post-Soviet period; an increase in the proportion of small villages with a population of less than 200 people (28 %) and rural settlements with a population of more than 3,000 people (6 %); a change in the functions of coastal rural settlements from agricultural to recreational, which had a positive impact on their demographic situation; preservation of spatial unevenness of rural settlement of Crimea. The results of a sociological opinion poll of residents of 30 rural settlements in 14 municipal districts of the Republic of Crimea and in rural settlements within the boundaries of the federal city of Sevastopol are proposed. The rural lifestyle is illustrated by maps of the structure of the problem field of rural territories of Crimea and the prospects for residents of the peninsula to live in them; estimated income maps of rural residents and the typology of rural territories by income level. The main problems of the rural lifestyle in the non-recreational territories of the Crimea are revealed: the washing out of the peasant lifestyle, the reduction of personal farms of rural residents, increased mobility of rural residents, the perception of emigration from the villages of Prisivashye and the Kerch Peninsula as the main way to solve everyday, social and economic problems, the preservation of the severity of the problem of preserving the values of rural lifestyle among young people.

Effectiveness of interruptions as a communicative strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA

The research hypothesizes that the American 2020 Presidential debate participants used recurrent interruptions as a communicative strategy to gain more power on the debate floor and win the voters' support. The form of political interaction (televised debates) also affected the candidates' speech behavior in a way that it added another participant (the general public) to the discussion; as a result, an institutionally controlled form of political discourse was subjected to a medial turn. This kind of media influence contributed to the speakers' choice of specific interruption types during the debates. The research analyses the turn-taking strategies of D. Trump and J. Biden employed in the First and Second (and Final) Debates and matches them with the pre- and post-debate poll results. The article concludes that although having a certain impact on the perception of the politicians' personalities, the effect of interruptions as a debate strategy on the voters' final choices was marginal.

Development of a method for assessing forecast of social impact in regional communities

The development of the social aspect of the world community is closely related to the expansion of the range of digital services in cyberspace. A special place in which social networks occupy. The world's leading states are conducting information operations in this environment to achieve geopolitical goals. Such processes are reflected in real social and political life. This makes it possible to influence not only the social groups of society, but also to ensure manipulation in political "games" in the conduct of hybrid wars. The simultaneous interaction of social factors, influencing factors, the presence of communities in social networks forms a full-fledged socio-cyber-physical system capable of integrating real and virtual interactions to manage regional communities. The article proposes a method for predicting the assessment of social mutual influence between “formal” and “informal” leaders and regional societies. The proposed models make it possible to form not only a forecast of the influence of agents, but also the interaction of various agents, taking into account their formal and informal influences, the use of administrative resources, political moods of the regional society. This approach allows dynamic modeling based on impact and relationship analysis. The presented results of simulation modeling do not contradict the results of opinion polls and make it possible to form a set of measures that can be aimed at overcoming the negative impact on the regional society of both individual “leaders” and political parties. Analysis of the simulation results allows to increase both the political and social stability of the regional society, helps to prevent conflict moods and contradictions.