Impartiality, friendship-networks and voting behavior: Evidence from voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest

Charron, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2013.05.005

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“…He was thus able to decompose voting variance in the ESC by levels of political impartiality. Using data from 1998 to 2012, Charron (2013) concluded that democratic or impartial countries are more sensitive to song quality than countries with lesser democratic traditions that more visibly opt to adopt bloc voting and local alliances. Loyalty – which is contra-posed to song quality and voting fairness – is found to decline as impartiality levels rise.…”

Section: Euro-divisions: Bloc Voting Versus Song Quality In the Escmentioning

confidence: 99%

Douze point: Eurovisions and Euro-Divisions in the Eurovision Song Contest – Review of two decades of research

Yair

2018

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international competition held by the European Broadcasting Union. The present article provides an updated review of the academic literature devoted to the study of the Eurovision Song Contest which in the past two decades developed into a serious and rich academic field with four main areas: (1) studies of imagining a unified Europe – wherein I review research devoted to cosmopolitan European visions and nation branding; (2) studies focusing on gender and what is often referenced as gay or ‘camp’ features in the Eurovision Song Contest; (3) studies of Euro-Divisions which focus on political bloc voting and cultural alliances – exposing consistent and persistent rifts and coalitions in the celebration of European unity; and (4) studies making use of Eurovision data as a cultural seismograph for explaining external phenomenon like economic trade and political conflicts. Two decades of study of the Eurovision reveal that the ideal of unity is persistently challenged by national and cultural commitments. While commentators often deem the Eurovision Song Contest to be a silly kitsch show of musical mediocrity, this review proves it to be an appealing and productive area for the serious study of European civilization and its discontents.

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Section: Euro-divisions: Bloc Voting Versus Song Quality In the Escmentioning

confidence: 99%

Douze point: Eurovisions and Euro-Divisions in the Eurovision Song Contest – Review of two decades of research

Yair

2018

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…This year's contest was perceived by many commentators to be tense and politically motivated, especially with Ukraine eventually winning the final [27]. Varying analyses see the contest as being influenced by political conflicts, friendships or cultural bias [28][29][30][31], with a range of news articles explicitly discussing the possibly biased results [32]. Twitter activity was very high throughout the event on the primary #Eurovision hashtag, with close to 8 million statuses, produced by nearly 1.25 million users.…”

Section: Case Study: 2016 Eurovision Song Contestmentioning

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“Come Together!”: Interactions of Language Networks and Multilingual Communities on Twitter

Albishry

Crick

Tryfonas

2017

Computational Collective Intelligence

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Emerging tools and methodologies are providing insight into the factors that promote the propagation of information in online social networks following significant activities, such as high-profile international social or societal events. This paper presents an extensible approach for analysing how different language communities engage and interact on the social networking platform Twitter via an analysis of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2016. By utilising language information from user profiles (N =1,226,959) and status updates (N =7,926,746) to identify and categorise communities, our approach is able to categorise these interactions, as well as construct network graphs to provide further insight on these multilingual communities. The results show that multilingualism is positively correlated with activity whilst negatively correlated with posting in the user's own language.

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“…More subtly, it might also be that they have comparable tastes, including similar musical tastes. Yet, Charron (2013) points out that the extent of bloc voting and neighbouring voting differs from one country to another. He demonstrates that countries with less impartial political institutions, characterized by norms of patronage and favouritism, vote more for their allies regardless of their performance than countries with more impartial institutions, reflecting strong norms of meritocracy.…”

Section: The Eurovision Voting Literaturementioning

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Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest

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The Eurovision Song Contest is not only the largest song contest worldwide but also probably the world’s largest election for a non-political office. In this article, we are interested in the voting behaviour of Eurovision viewers. Do they vote sincerely, strategically according to rational choice assumptions (i.e. for the song they believe will be the likely winner) or for another song? Using data from a large-scale survey carried out in Europe, we find interesting voting patterns with regard to these questions. Roughly one-fourth of the survey participants would vote for either their preferred song or for the song they think will win. However, the percentage of strategic voters is lower (11%). In contrast, many individuals (i.e. 36% of participants) would vote for another song, one that is neither their preferred song, the likely winner, nor a rational choice. The reasoning behind these remaining votes may include neighbourhood voting, ethnic voting, and voting for one’s favourite European country.

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Impartiality, friendship-networks and voting behavior: Evidence from voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest

Cited by 21 publications

References 24 publications

Douze point: Eurovisions and Euro-Divisions in the Eurovision Song Contest – Review of two decades of research

Douze point: Eurovisions and Euro-Divisions in the Eurovision Song Contest – Review of two decades of research

“Come Together!”: Interactions of Language Networks and Multilingual Communities on Twitter

Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest

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