Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between economic nationalism and foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets, seeking to establish whether public opinion and prevailing preferences regarding FDI affect the location decisions of multinational...

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate how blog searching can be used as a retrospective source of public opinion. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper a variety of blog searching techniques are described and illustrated with a case study of the Danish cartoons affair. Findings –...

Purpose – This paper aims to improve understanding of what motivates individual blog owners to post information frequently on weblogs, and whether gender affects those motivations. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose a model incorporating three key determinants of the intention...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to overview empirical research on gambling impacts, theories employed to these gambling impact studies and methodology of gambling impacts. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive review of literature on several gaming and tourism journals is...

The aim of the article is to present the opinions of Polish migrants in Britain on the gains or losses that Brexit may bring to the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), and Poland, as well as the respondents themselves and their families. These opinions were determined based on the...

The Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) has been a spearhead demand of civil society for some 15 years now. Initially put on the table by the UNDP in 1996 as an instrument of innovative financing for development, also its regulatory dimension surfaced after the Asian financial crisis 1997/98. While...

Governments' responsiveness to citizens' preferences is a key assessment criterion of democratic quality. This paper assesses responsiveness to public opinion in European Union politics with the example of governments' position-taking in the Council of the EU. The analysis demonstrates that...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) generated an unprecedented public contestation across Europe. In this paper, we focus on the sources of such backlash in European public opinion. Previous studies of this issue have analysed opinions on free trade and the specific...

Public opinion does not fall out of the sky. What passes for public opinion in the European Union is largely the answers of its citizens to questions posed in surveys commissioned and controlled by the European Commission. This paper presents the first systematic mapping of the topics and...