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VOC transcriptions - GLOBALISE
No full textThis is a collection of machine-generated transcriptions of the ‘Overgekomen brieven en papieren’ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). They were made by GLOBALISE (https://globalise.huygens.knaw.nl/), a project based at the Huygens Institute (KNAW Humanities Cluster) in the Netherlands and funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under grant no. 175.2019.003.
This collection comprises inventory numbers 1053-4454 and 7527-11024 from the VOC archives, National Archives, The Hague. The scans of the original documents (n=4,802,212) from the period 1610-1796 are available on the website of the National Archives: https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.04.02/
Political Participation
No full textComponent of Vanhanen’s polyarchy index. Political participation is defined as the percentage of adult population that cast a ballot in elections
Polity2 Index
No full textAutocracy-democracy index (polity2)ranging between -10 (total autocracy) and 10 (total democracy) from the Polity IV datase
Bauxite Production
No full textBauxite is a naturally occurring, heterogeneous material composed primarily of one or more aluminum hydroxide minerals, plus various mixtures of silica, iron oxide, titania, aluminosilicate, and other impurities in minor or trace amounts. The principal aluminum hydroxide minerals found in varying proportions with bauxites are gibbsite and the polymorphs boehmite and diaspore. Bauxites are typically classified according to their intended commercial application: abrasive, cement, chemical, metallurgical, refractory, etc. The bulk of world bauxite production (approximately 85%) is used as feed for the manufacture of alumina via a wet chemical caustic leach method commonly known as the Bayer process. Subsequently, the majority of the resulting alumina produced from this refining process is in turn employed as the feedstock for the production of aluminum metal by the electrolytic reduction of alumina in a molten bath of natural or synthetic cryolite (Na3AlF6), the Hall-Héroult process
Slovakia, 1994-2014
No full textShort event description of labour conflicts collected from newspapers by Karmína
In Pursuit of Informed Voters: Three Experimental Studies on Enhanced Voting Advice Applications
No full textVoters frequently struggle to understand political attitude statements in Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) and often invest limited effort in resolving these difficulties. Conversational Agent VAAs (CAVAAs) aim to reduce the cognitive effort involved in searching for relevant information by integrating chatbots that can provide contextual support. This paper presents findings from three studies comparing CAVAAs to standard VAAs without additional information (Studies 1 and 2) and to VAAs with static clickable explanations (Study 3, VAA+). Study 1 (N = 93) was a laboratory experiment conducted during the 2023 Dutch Parliamentary elections with university students. Participants were assigned to either a standard VAA, or a CAVAA condition. The chatbot in the CAVAA was used in approximately 45% of cases, with users showing a preference for opinion-based and status quo information. Compared to the standard VAA, CAVAAs reduced non-directional responses and increased evaluations of the tool being usable, Moreover, as well as users’users perceived knowledge was higher, whereas no differences were found for factual knowledge and turn-out intention. Study 2 (N = 144) largely replicated these results in a field setting with a more diverse sample and showed that the effects held hold across different levels of political sophistication. Study 3 (N = 159), conducted during the 2024 European elections, compared a CAVAA to a VAA+ with static clickable explanations. While VAA+ users requested information more frequently than CAVAA users, both tools received similar evaluations, and this finding was again consistent across user groups based on their level of political sophistication. In the manuscript we discuss the implications of these findings for theory and practice