Sentimental Education in Serbia: How Media Sentiment Shapes the Electoral Terrain

Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroduction: why sentiment belongs to election forensics Election forensics is often associated with numbers: turnout, vote shares, invalid ballots, polling-station anomalies, unusual statistical patterns or inconsistencies between official databases and polling-station records. These are essential elements of electoral verification. However, election results are not produced…

What statistics can and cannot say about election language

Reading Time: 13 minutesThe final part of the series explains how to interpret the “Blockaders/Chaos” and “Vučić/Stability” patterns without overstating the evidence, but also without ignoring its importance. 1. From models to interpretation: why the final step is the most sensitive In the previous three parts of the…

Šta statistika može, a šta ne može da kaže o izbornom jeziku

Reading Time: 12 minutesZavršni deo serijala objašnjava kako tumačiti obrasce „Blokaderi/Haos” i „Vučić/Stabilnost” bez preterivanja, ali i bez zanemarivanja važnosti nalaza. 1. Od modela ka tumačenju: zašto je završni korak najosetljiviji U prethodna tri dela serijala postepeno smo gradili analizu. Prvo smo objasnili zašto se politički značajne reči…