data from the British Election Survey in 2014, we employ two distinct measures of political orientation, capturing … are some 15-23 percent less likely to change attitudes radically towards the left or the right across different waves of …

This study combines novel financial-literacy data with measures of attitudes to redistribution from the British … Election Study. We find a significant negative relationship between financial literacy and attitudes in favour of government … instrumental variable regressions. Falsification tests show that these results are independent of generic attitudes towards other …

such attitudes. Our analysis is based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, which includes questions on attitudes towards … about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are …

Work Orientation module International Social Survey Programme to look at the attitudes of residents of these countries …

followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in …

Why did Victorian Britain invest so much capital abroad? We collect over 500,000 monthly returns of British and foreign … quantify the historical benefits of international diversification and revisit the question of whether British Victorian … investor bias starved new domestic industries of capital. We find no evidence of bias. A British investor who increased his …

between the highly skilled diaspora and their home country. Studies of transnationalism and diaspora have further emphasized …

characterized by long-distance nationalism, and examines the history and structure of the Eritrean diaspora as well as its …